By COLlive reporter
Photos by Shneor Shif and Itzik Roytman
Hoping and praying…
Lubavitch chassidim, bochurim and followers from around the world are making their way to New York to spend Gimmel Tammuz at the Rebbe‘s Ohel on his 21st yartzeit.
Ohel Chabad-Lubavitch Center, which welcomes visitors to the holy gravesite at Old Montefiore Cemetery in Cambria Heights, is working round the clock to accommodate the many visitors in cooperation with the NYPD and a private security firm.
With Gimmel Tammuz being on a Shabbos, the many visitors that are expected will be converging beginning on Thursday and continuing until after Sunday. Some first comers were already seen there on Wednesday.
In Crown Heights, the Brooklyn neighborhood home to Lubavitch World Headquarters, farbrengens and shiurim are starting to be held, calling on participants to strengthen their learning of the Rebbe’s teachings and their connection to him.
Rabbi Yoel Kahn, the preeminent Chabad scholar who served as the chief reviewer of the Rebbe’s teachings, gave a class on a chassidic discourse. Rabbi Shlomo Zarchi, Mashpia at the Yeshiva of 770, led a farbrengen for bochurim later in the day on Tuesday.
The central Gimmel Tammuz Farbrengen will be taking place on Thursday night at Campus Chomesh in Crown Heights where thousands are expected to participate and sign a joint united letter “Pan Kloli” to the Rebbe.
If that is true, all the more reason to stay within one’s own community and spread the love. Teach what the Rebbe taught. Tell us again and again what it was like to look into the Rebbe’s eyes.
the rebbe sometimes comes first
I appreciate how everyone wants to be in Crown Heights or at the Ohel for Gimmel Tammuz, but why do all the shluchim have to leave their communities to do so? We need you here.
thanks for posting these photos
were stuck here in Australia 🙂
Tzemmy! From the top bochurim in Lubavitch!