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Memories of Tekios by the Rebbe

A Shlucha remembers what it was like to cram into 770 with thousands of others to witness the Rebbe blowing Shofar on Rosh Hashana: "The sound seemed to shatter all mechitzos, to uplift yet break the heart in one moment, with the cry 'Tatte!'" Full Story

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amazing !!
September 29, 2014 2:38 pm

incredible !!! rezoneinu lirois es malkeinu !!

BRAVO!!!!!
September 29, 2014 12:04 pm

Please write again from your memories of Yom Kippur and Simches Toira
PLEASE

memories
September 29, 2014 1:16 am

Wow, this sure brings back memories. I recall one year managing a place up front at the plexiglass windows with the little opening at the bottom (you refer to this in your article) ……I took my shoes off , it was impossible to stand in them with a whole pack of people leaning on me. By the time I had to walk home I could not wear my shoes – my feet were swollen and I could not get them into my shoes.. But it was worth it!!!! As time goes on I miss the Rebbe more and more……with a… Read more »

The machzor alive!
September 29, 2014 1:12 am

Reading this article is like reading the section of avodah in the Yom Kippur davening. In details how the kohen gadolinium would look and daven for all of Klali yisroel. How people would break their fast late into the night to get a glimpse of the kohen gadol. His face radiating…. The description of the rebbe is our modern kohen gadol. May we witness this experience ice again by this Yom Kippur!!! Thank you col for posting meaningful articles like this.

Biggest Thank you!
September 29, 2014 1:11 am

This piece brought me to uncontrollable tears. Although I was too young to remember seeing the Rebbe during Tekiyes, I remember very much the aura and atmosphere of being in 770, being lifted to see the Rebbe, the crush of the crowd, the unreal realness of the whole atmosphere….. How I wish and yearn that my kids grow up with this!! Ad mosai… it’s been too long

Wow! Thank you for sharing!!
September 29, 2014 12:37 am

I rarely comment, but this time I just had to tell you thank you for describing all that in such a beautiful, powerful and vivid way. I literally felt as if I was there. The feeling you describe while the Rebbe would stand under the Tallis with the panim, is so incredible. To imagine everyone standing there knowing Moshe rabbeinu (as u perfectly put it) is shaking the heavens and who knows what the rebbe was accomplishing lemaala, I’m just jealous I couldn’t be there to watch that live. And I love how you said that after seeing the Rebbe,… Read more »

Thank you for taking us back to the scene of life!!
September 29, 2014 12:24 am

I am very proud and emotional to know the person who wrote this!
You took me back step by step as i remember.
This was so beautifully writen!
SHKOYACH
Love,
Bibi

Agree with number 4
September 28, 2014 11:53 pm

Being of the generation born after gimmel tammuz, we NEED more of these kinds of talks and articles! They are our source of motivation and give us koach to continue until Moshiach comes.
Thank you so so much for taking the time to write this beautiful piece.

Beautiful
September 28, 2014 11:42 pm

Please sign your name.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!
September 28, 2014 9:09 pm

Dear Shlucha,
The most beautiful description…
May you have much success in your holy work, with much health harchava & nachas.
May we be reuinited together with the Rebbe lmata very soon!

Meir
September 28, 2014 6:57 pm

BS”D from a mans point of view- an excellent ,poignant, vivid,realistic blow by blow (there has to be a better word) description,which re lives the real moment. Thanks so much.Forgot what it was like. Did the washing machine one year but couldn’t do it again

To 11
September 28, 2014 6:23 pm

Vaad Hatmimim

Very beautiful
September 28, 2014 6:06 pm

Thank you for sharing.

The Rebbe's Shofar still cries.....
September 28, 2014 6:03 pm

I lived in Crown Heights till about age 11 and we then moved to another neighborhood – but still in Brooklyn and always came in for the Rebbe’s (weekday) farbrengens or after Yom Tov, Kos Shel Bracha etc. I read your amazing, precious description and how very sorry I am that this cherished scene was so within reach, but for me the lessons of “Yagati Umotzosi” and “Ki Korov Eilecha HaDavar Meod” were yet to be learned….. Your sensitive and poignant writing takes us back to 770 of the 1960’s and 1970’s and the tears don’t stop – for what… Read more »

higia zman
September 28, 2014 5:52 pm

Thank you thank you. Crying for what i never had personally

Very heartwarming!
September 28, 2014 5:41 pm

After all of this; is there any programs for american buchorim that came in from all over the world?.. Someone has to do some type of thing for americans that came to be with the Rebbe?

Thank you!
September 28, 2014 5:28 pm

Thank you, shlucha for a truly beautiful and accurate description (yes, I was the girl with one foot on the back of the bench behind you and one foot standing on nothing).
Thank you COL for posting inspirational material like this. Looking forward to more of the same.

Beautifully written
September 28, 2014 5:17 pm

I was zocha to hear tekias for 10 years from the rebbe. I just cried reading the article. I lost my small machzor which u would have loved to share with children and grand grandchildren- the pages all strained from the tekias sweat and torn pages from tekias.may we be zocha to hear the shofar godol of moshiach Now!!!

So necessary
September 28, 2014 4:23 pm

Thank you for posting!
Very well written

חדש ימינו קקדם...
September 28, 2014 4:22 pm
Moving
September 28, 2014 4:11 pm

Brilliant and vivid. Take a bow

gemar chasima toiva
September 28, 2014 3:50 pm

Awesome. I feel like i was there.

Post Gimmul Tammuz Girl
September 28, 2014 3:42 pm

Thank You so much for letting us share in the experience of Tekius by the Rebbe I yearn for the day that I will be able to see it with my own eyes.

Wow!!
September 28, 2014 3:33 pm

This is so beautifully written!
Thank you so much for sharing

So important for this generation to read..
September 28, 2014 3:32 pm

Thank you Shlucha

a bachur
September 28, 2014 3:23 pm

thanks for a great article

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