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Is Fried Dreaming of Aliya?

In a candid conversation while on vacation in Arizona, Avrohom Fried tells COLlive Editor Yehuda Ceitlin where he would live in Israel and what irks him in Crown Heights. Full Story

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another CD just of nigunim/yom tov erlich.
November 10, 2011 6:06 pm

so many of “non-stop chabad” went and “Yankel Yankel”also.
So many people like avreml’s music, but not all of it is too chasidish(although most of it is-it depends what you listen to)
yom tov erlich’s are the best. they have such yidishe feelling and meaning.
I personally think that anrem’l should do another REAL YIDISHE CHASIDISHE LUBAVITCHER CD!

avraham fried best voice nicest person
November 9, 2011 10:43 pm

let me tell u something fried is %100 right with the cell phones in shul its going out of hand imagine if u stand before your boss in work having a meeting would u take out your cell and start texting etc.?. now your going to shul for what ? to daven for god right? so why take out your phone people you gota wake up yes im talking to me too … #2 FRIED iS REALLY A NICE PERSON HE HAS THE BEST VOICE ID EVER HEARED THE ONLY SINGER THAT I COULD HER A WHOLE DAY IS FRIED… Read more »

crown heights family
November 8, 2011 1:15 pm

Reb Avraham, Ahavas Yisroel also includes children being nice to their classmates…..

An aidele yid!
November 8, 2011 9:07 am

He’s a private (tzniusdik) person and doesn’t enjoy exposing his personal business.
He expressed his personal opinion and what “irks” him. Such aidel sencitivities!
A gashmakeh chasidishe yid!

#43 sehy'
November 7, 2011 3:58 pm

do you see what takes to be a TRUE chasidic star & j.music leader, it’s way lot more then just a-day to day job.

Dovid
November 7, 2011 10:35 am

Love this guy. A mentsch, a ba’al chesed, and what he does literally brings joy to hundreds of thousands of people. Even his “complaint” is so elegantly stated and without vitriol. Can we elect him to the community council?

avreimal is right with the cell p. part but..
November 7, 2011 4:02 am

let’s all not forget the other and main-root side of the problem which is yes, the ch SHUL PROBLEM. crown heights needs a NEW COMMUNITY SHUL!!!. times have changed, and enough with the ‘new shtiblach’ Fashion, its not solving the problem. 770,(not to mention unfortunately) is one big Chaos, and the community is growing bh, so\and why are we different then any NORMAL jewish community around the world with a PROPER shul to pray in???. so let’s go back to the problem. if you want ppl to act respectful in shul, you also need to provide a PROPER PLACE (yes,… Read more »

RE: Lubavitcher "Aliyah"
November 6, 2011 11:32 pm

I can easily understand a Lubavitcher chosid yearning to live in Eretz Yisrael as well as in Kahn Tzivah Hashem Es Habrochah. People who own condos in vacation areas while also maintaining homes elsewhere do so for gashmiusdikeh reasons.Living in Yerushalayim (or Chevron, for that matter) surely brings powerful ruchniusdikeh satisfaction, so It’s easy to understand wanting to live there while simultaneously maintaining residence in our unique(though not yet perfect) shchunah, the Rebbe’s schunah of C.H. In any case we should all be seriously davening for an end to this Galus when we will no longer use the term “Aliyah”… Read more »

The Time is NOT Now, Don't Leave Us Behind!
November 6, 2011 5:24 pm

Dear Rabbi Fried, Please don’t say Goodbye Crown Heights, until we call say Goodbye Golus! I echo commenter number 26 (gematria Shem Havayah) from Adelaide. Please don’t leave us behind, stay with us until the time of No Jew Will be Left Behind. Please stay with us until the time when we can all say together: The Time is Now! May Hashem help that you stay and keep steady, until the time we will finally say: We Are Ready! (Sorry, can’t remember the rest of the album titles off hand, but I am seriously calling upon you not to abandon… Read more »

i agree
November 6, 2011 5:18 pm

i agree. my not only cell phones, talking in general should be prohibited. every shabbos i go to shul, and i cant hear anything cuase all over people are talking. talking is for the meal after davening!

WOW!!!!
November 6, 2011 5:14 pm

Some of the comments are……. strange. Proud to live in the same CITY as his brother. Love Ya’!

A Laytin
November 6, 2011 3:08 pm

Avrohom: Thanks for making the (Triple) bar Mitzvah awesome! It wouldn’t have been the same without you!

yes i would love another yiddish album
November 6, 2011 1:45 pm

and i’m not an old geaser… there are enough young ppl like me who want to have yiddish media in their future homes!

Well said!
November 6, 2011 12:52 pm

(I was reading this during chazoras hashatz…)

ein kmo haaretz
November 6, 2011 12:28 pm

nothing like the people in israel!
so much achdus and ahavas yisrael there!
as for the concerts in Israel ..amazing everyone joins in with the singer singing and dancing!
concerts here def. need more simcha coming from the people..you know its permissible to clap while he sings.

modesty
November 6, 2011 12:01 pm

I was gona think that the pritzus issue would b a top issue then the cell phones in shul. Maybe he didnt want 2 get in2 it.

Waiting anxiously for Israeli album!
November 6, 2011 11:43 am
ignure #8
November 6, 2011 10:55 am

hes just looking for attention.

A Big Fan
November 6, 2011 10:42 am

Listening to Avrohom Fried makes me happy. He is a nice person and his sincerity radiates from him wherever he goes.

more yiddish!
November 6, 2011 10:30 am

r’ avremel,
everyone wants another yom tov erlach album! those are the best by far!!

he is right ,
November 6, 2011 9:42 am

and he,s a” dugma chaya ” .. wt if the nigun cds will b cheaper will that help?

To #5
November 6, 2011 8:50 am

you upset he brought up something you do all the time?

Give it up!

Reb Avremel, the Rebbe's Sh'chuna needs you!
November 6, 2011 8:09 am

Dear Avremel, Firstly — I commend you for speaking out clearly when needed (e.g. on important issues such as Ahavas Yisroel, Shul decorum, etc.), and for being committed enough to our ideals not to allow them to be ignored or be shoved under the rug (sometimes – incredibly! – in the name of “Lubavitch Kiruv”, but in fact due to a laxness in ideals found in Shulchan Oruch). It unquestionably gives the Rebbe huge Nachas today, when you and others “raise the bar” in his community – helping to make Crown Heights the centrepiece in the Rebbe’s crown. Secondly —… Read more »

we want more!!
November 6, 2011 7:49 am

Chabad Nigunim
Yiddishe Otzros

yoni
November 6, 2011 7:18 am

you shouldn’t talk to neighbor or on cell phone in shul because there are halachos that state clearer no dvarim betailim, and besides you desturb people. take the call outside.

No. 16:
November 6, 2011 6:46 am

What has that got to do with anything???

agree!
November 6, 2011 3:16 am

old saying: If u go to shul to talk wher will u go to daven??
AF kol Hakavod! So looking forward to Israeli album!!!

Don't understand
November 6, 2011 2:44 am

I must be naive, but why are people on their phone in middle of speaking to HKB”H? Reminds me of a woman at the ohel a few months ago, who answered her phone and kept up a whole conversation, eventhough she was asked to please cllose it several times.

I think if you like Avremel
November 6, 2011 1:35 am

I think if you like Avremel, then in his zechus we should listen and follow his one wish to our community and leave our cell phones out of all shuls. Lets be an example to the world.
Thanks a lot Avremel for everything.
Your fan and friend

MBD and AF in Israel
November 6, 2011 1:20 am

It’s great living in J’lem. Now we’ll have 2 superstars as well. Why don’t you come join us as well?

Thank you!
November 6, 2011 1:00 am

Firstly, I want to thank Yudi for the great work you do and constantly keeping us up to date while juggling your life with Shlichus and Journalism. This article is great! Avraham Fried, you did it! You brought us all Chassidishe nigunim together with your expertise of music and powerful yet sweet voice. I enjoy every bit of your music! May Hashem grant you much success and energy to continue the great work you are doing! Thank you and looking forwrd to your Israeli album. Rak Tefilah hit the charts! 😉 Thanks again to all those who use their time… Read more »

lol
November 6, 2011 1:56 am

just as i was reading this and listening to jewishbroadcast, all of a sudden one of af’s songs came on… 🙂

I'm from arizona
November 6, 2011 1:53 am

Goooooooo Arizona!!!!!!
Best place everrrrrrrrrrr

we want more yiddish gems!!!!!
November 6, 2011 1:26 am

love you avremel!!!!

new song!part 2
November 6, 2011 1:00 am

to #8: talking in shul-also not so right, has you both aware of what’s going on, and unless you’re both machers, the conver sation will be relatively shor and nor loud enough to disturb everyone(well…sometimes maybe). The part at the end of the cell connection has no sense of what’s happening in shul. Personal experience has cell calls far more disturbing, and I’ve got 2 machers talking right behind my table. And they don’t begin their conversations by going rring rring or playing some tune[unless we’ew all rally drunk, and then who cares]. Personally, I turn my mobile off because… Read more »

Aaron
November 6, 2011 12:49 am

B”H # 8 maybe you are wrong-one is not allowed to talk of mundane matters in Shul, try looking in that book called Shulchin Aruch and see what it says on the matter,especially when in Tallis and Teffilin and especially while dovening as in the example he set forth.

love the niggunim
November 6, 2011 12:33 am

no one sings them better

cell phones
November 6, 2011 12:10 am

its soo true it is litirally the avodah zora of our generation today avremel is right our kids see this and what do we expect from them?its time to make a shturem about this

new song!
November 5, 2011 11:49 pm

no joke- why not write a song chiding the use of cell phones in shul. If done with humor, it might have a great good effect

keep it up
November 5, 2011 11:48 pm

Your concert in Tzfat was AWESOME when u sang rak tefilla with geshem instead of shemesh…. 🙂 and i think its great when popular respected figures in the Jewish community give hashkafos that people wont accept from other figures. That’s the difference btwn a Jewish star and a celebrity-that’s how it should be. Keep it up!!!!

Wrorng
November 5, 2011 11:48 pm

There is absolutely nothing wring with a cell phone in Shul.

If you are allowed to talk to your neighbor in Shul – then you are allowed to talk to the cell phone in your and as well.

I you are NOT allowed to talk to your neighbor in Shul – then you are also not allowed to talk on the cell.

It ha NOTHING to do with CELL Phones. It is to do with TALKING – cell phones or not

So whats the point with CELL PHONES here?!

meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
November 5, 2011 11:40 pm

i love you avroham freid

he did a great job bringing chassidishe nigunim
November 5, 2011 11:20 pm

more of yom tov earlich stuff in yiddish would be great. to keep yiddish alive.. my kids love that stuff and sing parts of it…

What's up?
November 5, 2011 11:04 pm

At first, it was MBD’s singing style that he emulated.
Now he’s hinting that he’s making aliyah, just like MBD.
What could be next, a ‘spudik’?

az rocks
November 5, 2011 10:57 pm

go az!!!

He will be My Ruv
November 5, 2011 10:53 pm

I love to hear what needs to be fixed from “simple” people, I think I will really listen!

chabad niggunim
November 5, 2011 10:45 pm

I wish he would make some albums of only chabad niggunim. it would be fantastic. He does such a great job!!

emes
November 5, 2011 10:34 pm

He is right… shulls need cell phone jammers

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