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Rabbi Lazar Shifts the Blame

Responding to criticism, Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar accuses the 'delegation' for mishandling the release efforts of the Schneerson Archive. Full Story

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June 18, 2013 7:28 am

שנאוי המחלוקת וגדול השלום

רבינו שלמה יצחקי
בראשית י”א – ט

imagine it was your kids
June 17, 2013 10:15 pm

Imagine you had 20 kids all wrongfully accused and convicted, sitting in jail (rachmana litzlan). You have a choice to allow 5 of them to go to a temporary halfway house that belongs to your brother. Do you shout and fight that this is just an appeasement and they should stay put until ALL the kids are set free? Until they right the wrong? I think anyone with half a brain in their head will say, take what you can now and continue the fight from there. Putin blinked by making any concession at all. This is the first big… Read more »

Rabbi lazar a true moser nefesh for the Rebbe
June 17, 2013 9:57 pm

My brother in law was in Russia on buisness when Rabbi Lazar first came. He had tremendous mesirsas nefesh living in very dificult circumsrances.If anyone has the pulse of what can be done it is Rabbi Lazar.To try and put pressure on the Russian govt. through financial penalties etc is hepech the Rebbes rozon. . Anyone who remembers the demonstrations for Soviet Jews in the 70s and 80s should know the Rebbe was very oposed to it. What is diferent about these indvidual trying to coerce Putin. Its alot worse than the demonstrations , Kol hakovod to Rabbi Lazar for… Read more »

Mushrooms anyone?
June 17, 2013 9:36 pm

When a chosid decides to do a shlichus that has been given to someone else, isn’t that defined as a “Mushroom” in Shluchim’s parlance?

By his own admission R’ Lazar agrees that a different group of chasidim were given the shlichus to work on matters pertaining to the Rebbe’s seforim.

the real sakona.....
June 17, 2013 6:05 pm

The real sakoneh – is when people start acting as if they know better than the Rebbe?! If the Rebbe said clearly – THAT HE DOES NOT WANT!!! THE SEFORIM TO BE DISPLAYED OR KEPT IN A “CHABAD MUSEUM” IN RUSSIA – then that’s what he said, and that’s what should be done. Period. Mish’t zach arein dem “kluginker” – “seichel ha’yoshor”, the ones’ that “KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH ISSUES”, and they know better than the Rebbe how things should be done – then they do farker’t than what the Rebbe wants, and they – NOT THE REBBE put… Read more »

Rabbi
June 17, 2013 4:34 pm

This is typical case of a Rav m’taam from the story books.
He claims that this have caused great damage – close to life-threatening – to the Shluchim in Russia. The question is if the Rebbe would approve that his shliach or chosid should take such position.

The real question:
June 17, 2013 3:12 pm

Was it all worth it?

What it worth to get the title, power, money and fame by becoming associated with the government in exchange for being their Jewish mouthpiece and puppet

sad
June 17, 2013 3:10 pm

sad the so many years passed and we didn’t get it back
should have been done before gimmel tammuz

רב מטעם...
June 17, 2013 3:04 pm

“אל תתודע לרשות, שלא יעבירוך על דעת קונך”

–פירוש רבי עובדיה מברטנורא על אבות א י

כל הכבוד to rabbi lazar
June 17, 2013 3:02 pm

for first of all getting the sforim out of danger
before it’s too late and then there would be no sforim to return….

rabbi lazar is right
June 17, 2013 1:59 pm

if a big shturem wasnt made by the “delegation” the seforim wouldve been here long ago

Small Shliach on the totem pole
June 17, 2013 12:05 pm

I know this may sound heretical to some and may anger some people off but this whole episode calls into question, imho, the whole way Rabbi Lazar goes around fulfilling his shlichus. Sorry I’m saying it but it’s gotta be said. Not because the points he makes in this letter are incorrect. They very well may be. I don’t know, am not in the know and have no special information. So I don’t know who is right in this specific issue and I withhold judgement. The problem is how it got to this point. The problem is that the Rebbe,… Read more »

Ahavs Yisroel
June 17, 2013 10:48 am

I know one thing the Rebbe definitly does not want is division in chabad over this. I think Ahavas yisroel is the first and foremost and if h tere are any issues work it out behind the scenes anddont hang your dirty laundry out for the world to see!

All did what they needed to do
June 17, 2013 9:29 am

It’s clear that Rabbi Lazar needed to do what HE did. He doesn’t gave much choice. It’s also clear that the court case against the Russians is having a tremendous effect in the matter. If not, Putin would never have made this whole spectacle that HE did. The delegation the Rebbe sent are doing what THEY have to do. Tve Rebbe never promisef them a walk in the park. He knew the Russians, and surely knew the risks.Yet he sent them and told them to operate until “mesiras nefesh”. Quite a shlichus. So please everyone, stop the mudslinging. Lazar did… Read more »

100 right!
June 17, 2013 8:56 am

Kol hakavod rabbi Lazar, he is a emesdiker mensh!

To #3
June 17, 2013 8:18 am

To the smart-alek: Its very easy for you to sit at home and do nothing and criticize others who are out there in Russia doing the Rebbe’s work.

to #12
June 17, 2013 8:17 am

agreed 1000%

It is so comical to read some of the comments.

if you really want to free the Seforim and bring Moshiach
June 17, 2013 7:22 am

the Rebbe taught us that the average Lubavitcher can help free the seforim by learning more Torah, and especially buying more seforim that are already in our hands! and the sure way to bring Moshiach even more than freeing the seforim is through ahavas yisroel! let’s give the Rebbe nachas and respect each other… dont judge another until you are in their place

thank u
June 17, 2013 5:04 am

rabbi lazar is coreect & i applaud him for writing this letter
for all the comments against him, seems like chabad of the west coast has extra staff who have nothing to do…

rediculous
June 17, 2013 1:57 am

The hotheads in America always want to dictate the situation regardless of the repercussions. The ones best to deal with the situation are the one who there in Russia and have a somewhat of an amicable relationship with Putin and the government.
So far the ” delegation” hasn’t succeeded in doing much at all with regards to this library and yet they criticise those who are al assar?
Something wrong with that picture!
Isn’t possible that much more will be achieved bedarkei noyam?

Important note missed:
June 17, 2013 1:49 am

we all try to do the right thing, cant blame or accuse anyone. that they go directly against the Rebbe, however: One extremely important point, that we miss here, is, despite the fact that BL claims that it is “ischalta D’giulah” Putin publicly proclaimed, as stated here in the article and many more places,,,,, that: “””Rabbi Kogan was present Thursday when President Vladimir Putin announced the transfer of the collection to the museum. The move should “put an end to this problem once and for all,” Putin stated.””” this takes care of the problem once and for all.. how is… Read more »

wow....very complex.
June 17, 2013 1:41 am

perhaps a new approach to solve this important matter?

To Fool a Fool
June 17, 2013 12:46 am

Putin is playing us for fools.

corruption and compromise
June 17, 2013 12:16 am

The Rebbe saw this years ago. Not for nothing were those who appease at all costs not included in the HANDPICKED group who are singularly in charge of returning the seforim to 770. Now to try to make it holiness…who is obstructing the Rebbe’s will? New heights of open chutzpah, using the temimus of those who don’t know the true history. ..very sad…

B"H B"H B"H
June 17, 2013 12:11 am

This a great story

Rabbi lazar he knows what he's doing!!
June 16, 2013 11:01 pm

I love you and look up to you

Where fools rush in....
June 16, 2013 10:48 pm

Time for everyone to shut their mouths.

Af Yenems ..... Is gringer Patchen!
June 16, 2013 10:40 pm

Long live the Rebbes Shliach to USSR who is “Moser Nefesh” daily together with all the shluchim there.

I hope all the others who are enjoying their freedoms in Crown H. LA & Kfar Chabad appreciate this huge Kiddush Hashem!

Connected to Moshiach
June 16, 2013 10:33 pm

The Rebbe said in several contexts in the years 5742-5752 that the pidyon shvuyim (!mamash!) of the sforim. Is directly connected to the comming of moshiach.

We should not mix in our understanding and get in the way of the ikkar shchina’s Dora b’ tachtonim.

Let's get this straight
June 16, 2013 10:32 pm

…that the culprit is and remains the leader of Rasha.

100 PRECENT CORECT!!!!!!
June 16, 2013 10:20 pm
another fight
June 16, 2013 10:06 pm

So sad another fight in Chabad!!!

Megaleh Tefach
June 16, 2013 10:05 pm

He admits to be “megaleh tefach” – implying that he is being “mechaseh t’fachayim”, in plain English: a cover up.

great letter
June 16, 2013 9:57 pm

Rabbi lazer is the best

Aischalta Digaolah!!!!????
June 16, 2013 9:38 pm

Chas Vsholom!!!!!!!!!!!!

moshiach's shliach to bring moshiach
June 16, 2013 9:38 pm

yechi hamelech

Rachmana Litzlan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 16, 2013 9:37 pm

Going against the Rebbe and saying that that is what he wants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

maase satan
June 16, 2013 9:14 pm

always machlokes when they finish with the rabbonim they start between themselves ad mosai?

Now we wait for the "reply" letter
June 16, 2013 8:46 pm

There will be a reply! And the truth will remain hidden to the simple people on the street.

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