By Dovid Zaklikowski for COLlive and Hasidic Archives
While the United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth (ULY) was renovating the dormitory and kitchen at 676 Eastern Parkway, a bus would bring the students from 770 Eastern Parkway to eat their meals at Bedford and Dean.
The students felt that the large kitchen there did not have enough supervision to make sure that the food was the utmost kosher. The students protested and said that they did not want to eat there.
The complaints reached the Rebbe, and during the regular audience of the ULY committee (hanhala) with the Rebbe, he raised the issue.
The committee told the Rebbe that they felt the supervision in the kitchen was adequate.
“Would you eat there?” the Rebbe asked.
They affirmed that they would.
The Rebbe then said, “It would be a gleiche zach [a good idea] for you to go there and eat together with the students.”
A few days later, the younger students were surprised when some members of the committee stepped off the bus and went downstairs to the lunchroom and ate supper with the students. After that, the complaints stopped.
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Sad but true. There were multiple times which multiple chutzpah parents when there were issues with their children in various Lubavitch schools. They would write in to the Rebbe. 1) these few parents knew the issue would be resolved 2) there was a Lack of consideration on the Rebbe knowing his Agmus Nefesh with these issues 2A) the time the Rebbe would need to address these issues with whom ever and as long as it took (3-4 minutes, was an utterly Chutzpah Demalka to do such a thing. Despite all. Thanks for sharing this story. I’m deeply sorry sone don’t… Read more »
I am not taking issue with the prior comment, but note the lack of sensitivity and respect in using the phrase ‘dealing with the Rebbe’. A more appropriate phrase would be ‘in respect to the Rebbe (and respecting his valuable time)’