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Tuesday, 2 Adar II, 5784
  |  March 12, 2024

Weekly Photos of the Rebbe

The Avner Institute presents a collection of photos of the Rebbe at a Farbrengen in the 1960's. Photos

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To # 12: 1 & 2 are separate Farbrengens
April 12, 2015 2:32 pm

Why do you think “people are failing to realize…”?
What you fail to realize is that photos 1 & 2 are two separate Farbrengens in the same hall!

different farbrengens
April 12, 2015 9:57 am

People are failing to realize that pic 3 is not the same farbrengen and hall as pic 1 & 2. Also, Pic 3 appears to be a bit later, the Rebbe looks a bit older in pic 3 than in pics 1 & 2
V.G.

I was at this farbrgen
April 12, 2015 1:04 am

On Yud tes kislav and other big dates the rebbe would not be in 770 this went on till they made 770 bigger

Krenitzer Ruv
April 11, 2015 9:42 pm

That’s the father of Reb Yaakov Moshe and Reb Bentzion Friedman, of Friedman family fame.

Michoel A Seligson
April 11, 2015 9:41 pm

this is from the fifties and not sixties.

The Krenitzer Ruv
April 11, 2015 9:40 pm

in the 2nd and 3rd picture.

To no 4
April 9, 2015 6:02 pm

The shalash was not converted to a building until late 1961. So this could have been 1960, or even early 1961.

to # 4
April 9, 2015 5:41 pm

GREAT and detailed writeup pf Shnot HaOr

TY

MBA

Reb Yisroel Jacobsen
April 9, 2015 4:31 pm

To the rebbes left, and rabbi Sholome arhon kravasnovakiy

The photos are not from the 1960's
April 9, 2015 2:45 pm

From the beginning of the nesius 5710 (1950), all the Rebbe’s Farbrengens were held in the small zal upstairs. Starting from the mid yuds (1950’s), almost all Farbrengens took place in the “shalash”, the courtyard which was adjacent to the original building of 770. The “shalash” was covered with a canvas to protect from rain and snow. The sides remained exposed to freezing cold air in the winter, and hot humid air in the summer. There was no heating or air conditioning! Nevertheless, almost all the Shabbos and Yom Tov Farbrengens, and the weekday Farbrengens on Yud Beis Tamuz and… Read more »

The Krenitzer Ruv
April 9, 2015 11:25 am

in the 2nd and 3rd picture.

Yasher koach
April 9, 2015 10:59 am

Great pictures

Thank You!
April 9, 2015 10:05 am

Thanks for sharing with us special moments of the Rebbe!

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