(VIA COL)
A crowd of 20,000 people united in Crown Heights, Brooklyn on Monday to pray for the country of Israel and the Jewish people, currently under attack and engaged in a war with Hamas.
The event, organized in less than 24 hours by a group of Jewish activists and organizations, highlighted the Rebbe’s response to war and conflict in Israel, over the years.
Through a series of JEM videos, the Rebbe‘s emphasis on increasing in Torah, Mitzvos, rallies for children and joy during times of crisis and tragedy, was highlighted.
Weaving the event together was MC Chony Milecki, and heartfelt as well as joyous and upbeat Chasidishe niggunim, were led by singer Benny Friedman.
As per the Rebbe’s directives, children recited the 12 Pesukim and the crowd united in heartfelt prayer by reciting Tehillim.
Volunteers walked through the crowd offering children pennies to give Tzedaka as well.
Following the program, the crowd united in exuberant dancing, breaking all barriers and hopefully reaching the Heavens to break all boundaries through joy.
Special to thanks to Rabbi Chanina Sperlin of the CHJCC, the office of Mayor Eric Adams and Senior Advisor Joel Eisdorfer, Chief McEvoy of Brooklyn Borough South, Commending officer of Community Affairs Inspector Richie Taylor, Inspector Joseph Hayward of the 71 Precinct and Lieutenant Ira Jablonsky for their assistance in closing the streets for this event.
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5 Responses
I know they meant well, but anything reminiscent of a concert at this time just seems tasteless and wrong, did they have to have a whole band and the lot?
There are many Tehillim rallies all over the world, they didn’t seem to need a drum, saxophone, singer and the lot……
I dunno…. just doesn’t seem right to me…
Pure yiddishkayt: stop with the hate.
They pulled off the biggest Tehilim event in the US, had a singer sing inspirational songs of Emunah and bitochon.
Say yasher koach or move on.
Pure Yiddishkiet, I was there and I can tell you that it wasn’t even remotely concert like. There was a lot of chizzuk, and the only singing was slow and full of Emunah. Most of it was speaking, short videos and saying tehillim together. It was very beautiful
pure yiddishkeit, If you care about Klal Yisrael, I suggest you keep your negative comments to yourself. No-one is interested. Don’t bash the efforts other Jews are making to help their brothers and sisters in Israel. What do you think has a greater effect in heaven, this massive tehillim event or your concerns about the saxophone? Do you care at all about what’s going on? Do you really think think that sitting and judging your fellow Jews for trying to do a good thing is really any better than having a tehillim event with a singer who sings songs of chizuk and Emunah? You say it seemed “tasteless and wrong.” Which part of your judgemental, disparaging, and absolutely careless comment is at all not tasteless and wrong?! Listen, get you priorities straight: do you care about helping Am Yisrael, or do you only care about the fact that 20,000 Jews saying tehillim together and singing songs of chizuk “didn’t seem right to you”? If you actually care about what people are going through right now, then do something yourself as a zechus for our nation, instead of looking for reasons to condemn the efforts of others. Your judgemental comments are definitely NOT what G-d wants right now.
You may be emotionaly affected by what i said, but answering your misunderstood message that i wrote with hate is stupidly contradictory to your hate cry.
@chjewess, thank you for saying what you said clearly and politely, without stupid senseless insults.
Maybe I should have framed my words a little differently so that all these touch sensitive commentators here wouldn’t have gone off a tangent like they did.
All I meant was, I was wondering, as the very short video seemed to catch such a seen, and that it seemed to me a bit off.
But if you say you were there and it was the opposite than I accept it.
Nice to hear that Jews wee mechazek together!
May H’ hear our tefilot and the brutal bloodshed stop here and forever!