Dear Crown Heights,
How can we begin to express thanks for all that you’ve done?
You’ve opened your hearts and your homes so graciously time and time again. From the Chabad on Campus Shabbaton, the Kinus, the Girls Convention, Yud Shevat, Chof Bais Shevat, Kinus Hashluchos, JLI Shabbat in the heights and all the other simchas in between, you’ve displayed a level of hachnosas orchim like no other community in the world!
As we prepared for the CTeen Shabbaton, we wondered if you’d be able and ready to accommodate the 1,500 teens and shluchim we were expecting. The phones kept ringing, the registrations kept pouring in, and you kept opening your homes! Thank you!
When a fire broke out just a day before the Shabbaton, leaving six teens stranded with nowhere to go, you helped them find their way. When the snowstorm canceled the flights of over 300 teens, you accepted their extended stay with joy, and made them feel comfortable. Thank you for all of your gracious hospitality!
Thank you for the memorable Shabbos family meal experience on Shabbos afternoon. Those meals are sure to be ones that the teens talk about for years to come! We are humbled by your kindness, hospitality and flexibility.
We are also very thankful to the dedicated girls of Crown Heights who volunteered their time and talents preparing for the shabbaton.
As Samantha Rosenthal from Plano, TX said of her experience:
“My time in Crown Heights taught me many valuable life lessons. The true feeling of belonging I experienced in my short time there ensured me that if I ever find myself lost throughout my life, I will always have a home that will take me in and show me the way, even if it is halfway across the country.”
We truly feel privileged to be part of Kan Tziva Hashem Es Habrocha!
A Kosher and Freilichen Pesach
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky
May we ALL continue to give the Rebbe much
AHAVAS YISROEL NACHAS
Thank you Rabbi Kotlarsky for giving us who live in Crown Heights the opportunity to help the Rebbe’s Shluchim.
The best way to thank us is to provide many more opportunities.
If you truly want to express thanks to the locals, here is a “thought”: Invite all local Anash to the kinus hashluchim! We are the “home base” for all shluchim! Let us join the inspiration of the Kinus Hashluchim. That would show your gratitude much more than lip-service (or pen-service). Many locals already have the zchus of attending vis their children or grandchildren being on shlichus. Let those of us who don’t have the opportunity also attend. PLEASE!
RMK you are a true example to all every jewish leader out there. You always remember that it’s the small gestures that count. That is what makes a great leader.
May you be Marich yomim al mamlachtecha.
Thank you rabbi kotlarsky for always showing appreciation! And thank you crown heights! Ur by far the most hospitable city in the world and we know it’s not easy. Hashem bless all of you
if the community also arrange a program similar to what they had for sheluchim for crown heights residents. also the guest that come should send at least a small shelachmanus fo thank you.
Beautiful article!
The thanks needs to include you too for all the tremendous work you do for Chabad, not only here but quite literally, around the globe!
Keep up your great work and as I once mentioned, maybe one day we can read your book about your holy work over the last 30 – 40 years.
Your (shtikel) Mechutan!
thnaks rabbi
and now it is time for all shluchim to realize that as well and say thanks to all the farmers that tend to the farm while they are away in the big city working
as the song goes “no matter where you may roam you can always come back home”
crown heights is “HOME”
and we are proud to be ” CROWN HEIGHTSERS”
Ditto… every summer we bring our “not-yet-frum” campers to Crown Heights and year after year, without fail, it’s one of their most favorite parts of their month in camp. Thank you!