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Online Petition Calls to Expand 770

An insurance broker in Crown Heights launched an online petition to garner support for a plan to expand Lubavitch World Headquarters - 770 Eastern Parkway. Over 1,200 people already signed. Full Story

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770 needs to be made better
October 28, 2019 9:44 pm

Do you realize the ohel is always busy but still

Has
Paper towels
Working sinks
Clean plazes to daven
No leaks
No dirty towels
No ……

There seems to be something more than just overcrowding as the problem

I dont know

Do Something
Reply to  770 needs to be made better
October 30, 2019 3:48 pm

Did you participate in the charity campaign that the Gaboim organized last year?

it's not about the money...
Reply to  Do Something
October 31, 2019 2:59 pm

it is how it is spent and managed

Where the pics come from
October 28, 2019 9:45 pm
So so important
October 28, 2019 9:47 pm

We must make it possible for the whole community to use the shul it cannot stay this small

Thank you sir
October 28, 2019 9:49 pm

Great idea, I’m sure the people who are in charge will take this to heart

CHT
October 28, 2019 10:01 pm

What happened to previous plan, those pictures still in my memory. Rebbe’s Bima at the corner of the quadrant

New gabbyim
October 28, 2019 10:09 pm

B.h. and thank you for levy Jacobson who took the courege to start a petition, we need to make a petition for new gabayyim 770 should be an example of proper Management

Go Mendel Mintz
October 28, 2019 10:19 pm

If Mendel is in BLN so am I.
We can do this. For our Rebbe.

Humble admirer
October 28, 2019 10:30 pm

Levi thank you for your wonderful spirit and energy of moshiach

petition
October 29, 2019 12:50 am

petition to who ??? i couldnt find any mention to whom this petition is addressed. By the way the legal owners of course is A.C.C (as established by the rebbe). Needles to say that acknowledging the above is not taking sides at all.

Agree.
Reply to  petition
October 29, 2019 9:27 am

The petition is to whoever it may be, we hope that the people who can do anything the expansion will take notice. We as chassidim are just making our opinion known that we don’t want to continue with the status quo and nothing should be holding back the expansion from happening.

but
Reply to  Agree.
October 29, 2019 10:35 am

but there is something holding it back along with many other things. We’re not going to get anywhere until we address the core of the issue

True
Reply to  but
October 31, 2019 8:44 pm

Only the parties involved at the “core” can sort out their own issues. I’m not one to say I have the solution. I’m sure there are many who have tried.

I signed the petition to make my voice heard that these “issues” should not be holding back the expansion – something the Rebbe and everyone else wants. I also don’t see how we’re any better off now that it’s been held back more than 25 years.

In short, we all want it, let’s do it.

Something to look into
October 29, 2019 12:57 am

I remember hearing from Rabbi Krinsky that the Rebbe was against making 770 taller than it currently is/was, that he didn’t want the building to go above 4 floors. I would be curious to hear more about it if someone can look into it.

Plans the Rebbe approved of and sent out
Reply to  Something to look into
October 29, 2019 11:16 pm

There was a design and plan. Why would u not use that plan. Beautiful brochures were sent out. Why go with something that looks like a church or museum hovering over eclipsing 770?

Just surprised and thinking!
October 29, 2019 1:07 am

Ofcourse 770 needs to be expanded, but I dont understand y today, more than 2 decades after 3 tammuz, its being brought up! Its hard for me to believe that there is no agenda behind this petition, knowingly or uknowingly to this author. I just feel suspicious and would do some research before signing!

What in the world?
Reply to  Just surprised and thinking!
November 1, 2019 7:56 am

Just surprised and thinking should do a little soul searching. Here is a chossid expressing his derher after learning chassiduss, someone that sees what is needed from a practical, chassiduss, halachic and hashkofic standpoint. I know Levi, he only wants the best for 770 and to carry out the rebbes wishes

Petition?
October 29, 2019 1:10 am

Who are you petitioning, Trump? A petition is generally directed somewhere. and who do you think currently has the legal authority to approve of the proposed construction?

beis hamikdash maybe?
October 29, 2019 3:33 am

why not build the real beis hamikdash? not that this isn’t a great idea? just put these resources towards the real deal maybe

Hang on.....
October 29, 2019 5:05 am

A great idea but……if that is the architectural design, I’m not so sure.
Please readdress the roof shape and tops of windows as it’s looking like – L’havdil – a cloister.
I see that whoever designed this wanted to try and keep in line with the original 770 peeked roof tops but as it is, it’s just not right.
Good luck.

Fun fact
Reply to  Hang on.....
October 29, 2019 3:02 pm

A cloister is a covered walkway, often facing a courtyard. They are found in many places, as it is an architectural feature. A cloister is not a backwards way of saying church, it just points out a feature that is common in such places.

Gothic looking design
Reply to  Hang on.....
October 29, 2019 11:17 pm

My first impression.

Did not propose design
Reply to  Hang on.....
November 1, 2019 3:57 am

He specifically says that is not the proposed design but the only image he could find…

An admirer
October 29, 2019 5:21 am

770 should gave space to sit at least
5000 Look at all the other chasidic Shul’s
Belz Gur viznitz satmar Many times bigger then 770
770 should be 4 times bigger then it’s size at the moment
Let it happen

Boro parker
October 29, 2019 6:43 am

Every once in a while I stop off at 770 to catch a mincha. You need to really expand the shul. Every other Chassidis does that. In squaretown the skverer shul holds 5000 people and they are now expanding to bigger. If they could possibly buy off along Kingston ave or eastern parkway and triple the size of the shul it would be great. In Boro park Bobbov 45 is building a whole block where the Y used to be on 14 ave and 49 and 50 st. Time to expand.

Petition?
October 29, 2019 7:34 am

Beautiful idea but who are we petitioning to?

Would it ever happen?
October 29, 2019 7:40 am

If you read the comments in this link with an expansion idea, you’ll see why it hasn’t happened yet. People are worried about the history and original design chosen by the Rebbe changing. Expansion would need to somehow maintain the old design as well as the place the Rebbe stood in order for people to agree.

https://col.org.il/news/8160

Who are we petitioning?
October 29, 2019 7:53 am

And where will the money come from?

הגיע הזמן
October 29, 2019 9:38 am

..לרומם את בית אלוקינו ולהכן העולם להיום ש”קהל גדול ישובו הנה”!

BH
October 29, 2019 10:07 am

Moshiach now!

Its nice idea but invest in spotless & cleaning
October 29, 2019 2:02 pm

Sorry but the neglect of the current 770 is a must topic to discuss. the Women section restrooms are disaster and smell is so unpleasant…please hire a good cleaning crew, invest in better ventilation and new toilets. only then discuss major changes.
Second one, to all who are doing renovations – you must do Restoration,pls keep the same style and colors, it’s an historical site that must be preserved for all future generation. Pls don’t mix styles into it.

Thank you, concern resident

need both
Reply to  Its nice idea but invest in spotless & cleaning
October 29, 2019 3:22 pm

If 770 is overcrowded then it will always be a mess

Ohel is spotless, the cleaning crew cleans nonstop
Reply to  need both
October 29, 2019 11:07 pm

Did you ever use a public bathroom anywhere? Ohel, airport, busy Staten Island Ferry? It’s all clean, why? Because NonStop cleaning crew is there and someone on top of them. AC is not working properly in 770 and air control is not exactly exist there. Sorry but it’s our Iconic Place, it’s so hard to see the mess around. Leftover Food, and the list is going on and on …. and people who made it as a bazar inside sorry but it bothers me and that’s why I don’t want to hear about money going to the future when the… Read more »

POsitivity
October 29, 2019 5:28 pm

While I salute your positive energy and effort to keep this free of negativity, and while the building is used by the chassidic public, it’s a privately (organizationally) owned and controlled building. So it seems you’re misdirecting your energy and anyone else’s who gets swept in your energy vortex. Of your constructive options, at least three are: a. speak to and convince the building’s controller(s)/owner(s) of your agenda b. find out if the organization has membership which controls it and its board and, if yes, become a member and sway the membership and its governance. c. find out if this… Read more »

Thanks!
Reply to  POsitivity
October 31, 2019 1:58 am

Sending this poignant but pertinent bullet list to the guys running this initiative. It was sharff but tzum zach 😀 and I love positivity 😀

Other issues to work on first
Reply to  Thanks!
November 4, 2019 1:11 pm

The rebbe also said to build an armon (palace) for melech hamoshiach. Why don’t you first sign that petition?

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