By COLlive reporter
A central Chasidic Farbrengen took place Thursday night in Campus Chomesh in Crown Heights, marking 15th yahrtzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
A crowd of close to 3,000 people – considered the largest ever to have attended – the Gimmel Tammuz function was organized by the International Agudas Chassidei Chabad.
Mostly Chasidim, including bochurim and Chabad friends, they listened to speeches recalling the Rebbe’s unique leadership and living legacy, and sang some nigunim, led by Head Shliach to Texas Rabbi Shimon Lazaroff.
Dr. Barry Baumel, who was on the team of neurologists treating the Rebbe after the stroke in 1992, told the crowd he and his wife were personally touched by the Rebbe. “We transformed our lives in his influence,” he said.
Baumel said that a brain scan of a person of that age (the Rebbe was in his 90’s), would have shown an impact on the brain. “And it was nothing close,” Baumel said. “The other brain that I know of in that condition was of Albert Einstien’s.”
An overall feeling of warmth was felt in the Rosa hall. “Fifteen years ago they said we’re doomed for extinction,” one participant told COLlive. “Today we are the largest Jewish organization in the world.”
But the elders seated on the dais, those who merited to meet the Rebbe or spend time in his presence, saw more to be accomplished and fixed.
Rabbi Sholom Ber Lipskar, spiritual leader of The Shul in Bal Harbour, FL, called in his speech not to be sedated.
“We should look at the sichos the Rebbe said about Gimmel Tammuz before 5744. And it must impact our lives even after we leave this Farbrengen.”
Other speakers included Rabbi Avraham Shemtov, Chairman of Agudas Chabad; Oholei Torah Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Yisroel Friedman and Rabbi Leibel Schapiro, Rosh Yeshiva Lubavitch in Miami Beach, FL.
To number 6 and 24:
Who says they are sad? It is a serious day and they are serious.
You want them to be laughing?
I noticed the whole community was sad on this day- appropriately justified. The loss of such a wonderful leader has left CH & the Lubavitch world in tremendous lack of good judgement. Lets not forget the first precept not to worship idols. We must discontinue belittling a Great Rebbe, and stop putting him ahead of or as if Hashem! Its humilitating the way people carry on.
i agree with you so badly that is so right!
i agree with 3 all the way.
i went to 770 on gimmel tammuz but there was nobody there, and then the next mourning all my friends asked me where was i last night, and i said in 770………………………………………..
in other words it should have been in770!!!!!
your a 1000 % right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you could be a good mashbia!!!!
you have a future
No 3 has a point it is abit crazy after all we ha seen and gone through in this Golus together with the passing of two of the most special Shluchim When will we all wake up, have some achdus and scream at our loudest voices enough to this Golus
WE WANT MOSHIACH NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we are so proud of your tanya keep up the good work! (sdm is so proud of you too!!!!!!!)
thats excatly what the article sais vdu”k
wow! you should be zoche to all the things you need bgashmius and ruchnius! what an event looks great!
this picture aint right.
were is the CHAYAINU from bais CHAYAINU.
koolam ahuvim……. obber eppes felt.
can anyone explain why is this a big day?
do they belive the Rebbe farbrengs somewhere? so why should they be in 770 with the crazy nuts?
I was there and heard from his mouth inteligent words. Why can’t his words be recorded properly??? He never said that the stroke didn’t leave an impact. He never said that Einstein’s brain was like that, as obviously he never saw a scan of Einstein’s brain. What he said was the following: When they scan the brain after a stroke, there obviously is the area where the stroke happened, and they focus on that mainly, but they could also see the rest of the brain which wasn’t affected by the stroke. The brain undergoes changes with age, and the older… Read more »
It happens to be tiring to listen to everybody’s speeches. Let’s see a picture of when someody interesting had something to say.
Rabonei hashchunah are mukza machmas mius. I am glad thay were not their.
rabbi lipa shapiro also spoke
go back to 770 its were the Rebbe is!!!
As it say, there is a time to laugh and there is a time to cry
I guess you were from the ones who rejoiced on 3 Tamuz Ned Daled
Have some respect for those who know better then you and have accomplished more then you ever will
It could only be the talk of “legacy” – as if we have been abandoned. The Rebbe gave us a HUGE shlichus and the IKAR to accomplish it is SIMCHA. If this derech leads to all the sad faces… it might be worth becoming mishichistin instead so the shlichus will get done!
why dosent it say your name in the title?
i saw collive’s photographer there for a short while… poeple were coming and going, the hallway was jam packed.. you could not find a seat (other then the stage)… and then there was a farbrengen after the official farbrenge
rebbe we miss you!!! we want to be back in 770!!!
WHERE IS THE ACHDUS??? NO PROBLEM. WHERE DO U THINK THE REBBE IS GOING TO FARBRENGEN? 770 OR BEIS RIVKAH? QUITE OBVIOUS. WHERE SHOULD EVERY CHOSSID BE ON gimmel tamuz? dont give me all those tiruzim. CRAZY PPL ETC ETC ETC THE REBBE VILL YETZ AS MEN ZOL FARBRENGER TZUZAMEN KEISH ECHOD BLEIV ECHOD. LET GET OVER OUR EGOS THIS ONE WHANTS TO TAKE THE PODIUM VECHULU. ALE FINEH CHASSIDIM MASHPIM ETC. OBER ES FELT DI IKER SITTING IN 770 ALL TOGETHER LIKE BROTHERS > I PROMISH YOU THIS IS WHAT THE REBBE WANTS FROM all OF US NOW. BEIS… Read more »
where are the rabbonei hashchuno?
I dont think there were 3000 ppl there in the gemoro the mispor 300 is a guzma 3000 is 10 times guzma!