A large sign outside the Chabad shul in Bnei Brak was vandalized last week.
When congregants arrived for the Shacharis davening, they discovered the damaged sign and they immediately called the shul’s Gabai, Rabbi Avraham Ruchamkin, to the scene.
On the sign, which has been hanging at this spot for several decades, the word “Shlita” had been erased.
That evening, the Chabad community and the shul’s congregants held a meeting, at which it was decided that they would report the incident to the police and the municipality.
the Rebbe highly praised a certain chossid who had the koach to say shlita after yud shvat and said it was a good thing. the Rebbe even cried and bemoaned the fact that people reffered to the Freidiker Rebbe as dead. And with all that He proceeed to write nevagam zeya. As long as the Rebbe doesn’t say otherwise, ELU V’ELU DIVREI ELOKIM CHAYIM!!!!!!! Even if the sign would have been put up after gimmel tamuz, who is more kanoee than our Rebbe regarding his Rebbe?! who has the right to decide that something is wrong after the Rebbe himself… Read more »
the rebbe never ever ever wrote about the frierdiker shlita,
the rebbe said it a few times but that is a chasidishe hergesh and certainly not a horoah lerabim
so that means it should be changed?!
if the rebbe wrote both then both are obviously true! however it makes sense! and therefor if it says one way why should it be changed who are you to say that the other way is more correct (just because your own sechel says that way) when the Rebbe clearly wrote both!
(and in this there’s nothing really to discuss when the sign -as it says- was there for decades even before gimmul tamuz and just was never changed like many other ones like number 5 and 7 mentioned.
You write. Do you read?
The sign has been there for DECADES!!! As with most other signs around the world, they were not changed post Nun Daled.
Was the sign placed before gimmel tamumuz?
Pls read the article. This sign dates back far before Gimmel Tammuz and like most signs of its type was not changed.
and how many times did the the rebbe right זצוקלל”ה נבג”ם זיע???????????????????????????????????????????
I am not what is referred to as a meshichist and don’t like the idea of writing Shlita after the Rebbe’s name. However, it is much more distasteful to scribble something out on the sign of a Shul so that it matches one’s ideas and ideals.
To an outsider to this very important debate, it looks ridiculous. Friends, in the end it is only a word. It really isn’t worth fighting over.
the rebbe himself on various occasions called the Frierdiker Rebbe ‘shlita’ after Yud Shvat. Go correct the Rebbes sichos kodesh as well for the same price.
it seems like it was a mere correction not a vandalism