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The Jewish Cultural Museum in Jerusalem, founded by Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, features a marble stone said to be taken from the Rebbe's Ohel gravesite in Queens, NY. More
The Jewish Cultural Museum in Jerusalem, founded by Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, features a marble stone said to be taken from the Rebbe's Ohel gravesite in Queens, NY. More
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, founder and director of the museum
Photo by Mendy Hechtman / COL.org.il
You can learn something from everything you see and hear. And what I learned from this squabbling is a) assuming Rabbi Dalfin is a true chossid, which is consistent with everything I have heard, if I want to know how such a thing is possible al pi halacha (and I am assuming the positive rather than the negative because that is dan le kaf zechus) I would 2) ask a posek.. there..any fights would have ended if someone would have asked a halachic authority how this is possible and permitted (and I am assuming it is if it is not… Read more »
Do you know how he got the stone? Where it came from? Just keep the negatives coming lekavod the three weeks! Remember being dan lekaf zechus is for nerds only. Cool guys just spout off the negative. Just in case you did not know Rabbi Dalfin is a real Chossid, on top of being very, very frum and learned. Anyone who knows him knows with certainty that he would not do sub-intelligent things such as our esteemed negativists has asserted. Now you remaining negativists, just ignore what I’ve written and spout off so that you can feel superior between you… Read more »
This is a pure halachik issue, all other comments are out of hand! we all out there would like to hear a clear psak!
I agree with you, it is not right to take a stone from the Rebbes ohel but once it is already taken you may as well use it l’shem shamayim to give people that can’t go to the ohel for whatever reason a taste of what it is like there.
Does the respect for the Rebbe have no value in in your eyes? Imagine what the Rebbe would have said if someone would have taken a piece of marble for the Freidiker Rebbe’s Ohel???????????? Have we reached a point where every one does what he he wants??????????
the negitive comments…..
ita gr8 2 show the whole world how specail the rebbe is….
PLEASE DONT MAKE A ARGUMENT OUT OF THIS!!!!!
a peace person
… from Roseann & Ed (From San Rafael.)
bichlal its a shailo if one is allowed to have any benefit from a buriel place.
it may forbidden to to do this with a atone as such as a ROV!
how can a chosid do something so crazy????????? Now every meshugener will think that it is ok to take something which belongs to the Rebbe!!!!!!!!!!!!! If AGuch would have any guts they would demand it he return it ASAP!
How did they acquire it? is there a story there?