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Oholei Torah Vs. Rabbi Teitelbaum

Rabbi Leizer Teitelbaum, son of Oholei Torah's founder, told board members he is against the shady sale of the East Flatbush Mikvah. Full Story

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Dear Reb Leizer
June 4, 2018 10:13 pm

Reb Leizer, This could you be your legacy. This could be the one thing that you could do for your parents. This could be the zechus that you take with you. Please, do the right thing, make it happen. You could if you want to.

Dinner ruined
June 4, 2018 10:11 pm

It was sad this had to be the conversation at the yearly Oholei Torah dinner.. it would have been nice if we could have celebrated all the good the school does.

Don't understand - עד מתי
June 3, 2018 6:51 pm

It’s about time a legal firm inspect and investigate the legality of the transfer of the property and verify the true owners and go forward from there
I will donate (and believe others will join) if funds are needed to start and finalize this saga – chillul hashem dragging on!

Values vs. Value
June 3, 2018 2:19 pm

The “new board” are more interested in the “value” of OT, than in its “values.”

A moisad must be led and run by people like Reb Michoel who were selflessly committed to chinuch. Baaleibatim play an important role, but only to support and not to lead the way.

To #19
June 3, 2018 2:08 pm

You obviously have no clue about the facts. The mikva never belonged to r teitelbaum. They let him stay there for free and in return he helped take care of the Mikvah. As things were falling apart they needed someone to take care of the place so instead of teitelbaum taking a pay check since he lived here he had OT pay the expenses where he lived. Nothing to do with OT and it does not belong to them like the other buildings.

To number 19
June 3, 2018 12:51 pm

If they tried to sell 667 Eastern Parkway and werent using it as a school there would be an uproar.
Why should the mikva building be any different?
Their job is to protect these buildings not sell them.

To #19
June 3, 2018 12:41 pm

The building in question never belonged to Reb Michoel.

to 8
June 3, 2018 12:17 pm

You come with some premise, which you say yourself, is what you imagined., and then you come to your conclusion. You ask: “No reason OT has the responsibility to maintain and pay for a building that they have no use for. Especially that the community members were offered to buy it. ” You are right OT should not have that responsibility, and they let the building revert to its true owner. Just because OT offered to sell it, It does not mean that the community should buy their own property back. But you of course come with your premise that… Read more »

Which Rabbis?
June 3, 2018 12:02 pm

East Flatbush Board of Rabbis no longer exists and hasn’t existed for a very long time.

#19
June 3, 2018 12:00 pm

They never paid for it, they and their own employee sign a deed making as if he represented the East Flatbush Board of Rabbis, when he in fact had nothing to do with that organization. This is all going to come out into the open either at a Din Torah or in a court of law, should the Rabbonim give permission to go there.

The new board of OT seem to have their own agenda, not in the spirit of its founding principles…. it shouldn’t be all about money.

To #16
June 3, 2018 9:52 am

Does that mean they got 667 eastern parkway as a freebie too? U kidding me? Obviously they got all OT’s properties (and debts) once he passed away.. is that a reason they should give away things for free?!

#8, another board member in disguise
June 3, 2018 9:48 am

This was transferred to OT by someone who had nothing to do with the board of Rabbis of East Flatbush, rather it was done by a paid employee of OT who transferred it to his employer in a deceitful manner. All those that are claiming that this was done legally, let me tell you that this fraudulent deed transfer would very easily be undone in a court of law although I think a Beis Din is a better venue for Frum people to adjudicate. To all those that are saying that OT is not in the business of maintaining Mikvaos,… Read more »

As a impartial person
June 3, 2018 8:11 am

I would think that Reb Leizer who lived there and knows the true history of the mikvah who is saying the truth especially since he is on the board of OT

Who else knows more about the mikvah than Reb Leizer

# 8 You have no idea what you're talking about
June 3, 2018 8:06 am

The buildings in East Flatbush were a total freebie that OT got, as a result of of Reb Michoels broader activities, OT has absolutely no rights to them,
They are 100% the rights to East Flatbush Jewish community

good idea - och un vei
June 3, 2018 7:55 am

the best idea is to make an assembly and gather all the students of oholei torah past and present and tell them that they are selling the mikvah to make money on the cheshbon of the kllal!
surely if they are doing it it must be a wonderful lesson for a mossad al tharas hakodesh! so tell it to your students!

Sholom Ber
June 3, 2018 7:02 am

What a bunch of hypocrites all in the name of making a dollar. On the one hand they teach the kids stories of “Mesirus Nefesh” of how in the old country people who would break the ice to go to go to the mikveh, or the famous story of Reb Levi Yitzchok Berditchev and the story that ends “oyb du bist farbunden aroyf falt men nisht arup” what a load bologna. They got a chance to sell and they are grabbing the money and making a run for it. Reb Michoel would go crazy if he were alive to see… Read more »

The Vaad
June 3, 2018 6:36 am

Who are they? The word is they are taking away money and opportunities from our teachers. Instead of helping the teachers they are making them miserable. Better find another school for your kids with happy teachers.

30 Million
June 3, 2018 1:01 am

OT got recently a 30 million donation
Please ,don’t be money hungry and don’t sell this Mikvah

#3 benefit of the doubt
June 3, 2018 12:25 am

I too am an oholei torahnik through and through. I’m also appalled by this. But I’m willing to assume that the mashpim that inspired us have nothing to do with this decision. So I see it as appalling, but not hypothetical. Jmho

OT
June 2, 2018 11:49 pm

Please do the respectable thing… just don’t sell and be menshlech bh your not hurting for money and this should be important to you and every Jew equally.

East Flatbush as Crown Heights II
June 2, 2018 11:35 pm

Someone please arrange for this to be restored for use by the evergrowing Lubavitcher community of East Flatbush!!

Anonymous
June 2, 2018 10:35 pm

What I imagined happened was that after Reb Michoel passed away the building was legally transferred to OT together with the other property Reb Michoel had (that OT used) in east flatbush. It wasn’t privately owned by him (if it was it would have gone to his kids), it was under his name and then inherited by the (now) legal board of OT.
No reason OT has the responsibility to maintain and pay for a building that they have no use for. Especially that the community members were offered to buy it.
Just my thoughts

Giving True Nachas To Reb Michoel Zatzal
June 2, 2018 10:15 pm

Rebuilding East Flatbush , As a Yidishe Neighborhood was most important to Reb Michoel

Crazy
June 2, 2018 10:03 pm

Things are out of control. The mosdos have no oversight, or checks and balances. They should be investigated!!

Reb Leizer
June 2, 2018 9:55 pm

I heard the same thing from Reb Leizer, a very special yid, I am glad that he is coming out with this now.

Question
June 2, 2018 9:55 pm

Why should a school own a mikvah?

Epitome of hypocrisy
June 2, 2018 9:50 pm

As a “complete product of Oholei Torah, ~ Diapers to Shiur Daled zal” I am Appalled by the thought of this. Which is screaming “do as I say, not as I do.”

Yes!!!!
June 2, 2018 9:13 pm

Thank you R’ Teitlebaum for standing up for this sensitive issue!

Community Vs Profit
June 2, 2018 9:06 pm

If this was a Mikva in the ‘Crown Heights’ proper would the board be selling?

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