By COLlive reporter
Congregation Bais Shmuel Chabad, a vibrant Lubavitch community in Crown Heights, is teaming up with the the Ahavas Chesed medical and humanitarian organization to assist locals in need.
“There are unfortunately fellow residents who are sick and require some medical attention,” Bais Shmuel wrote to its members this week. “To help answer the need for volunteers, we teamed up with Ahavas Chesed to help the organization fill some volunteer slots.”
Members were asked to get involved in the following volunteer work: Driving patients to the hospital, sending meals to families, visiting the sick and needy, helping to serve in the new soup kitchen at 271 Kingston Avenue.
“We are very grateful for their commitment and dedication to such crucial causes,” Rabbi Avraham Lider, Executive Director of the 1988-established Ahavas Chesed, said.
“This is a great opportunity to get involved and give back to the community, as many of the people and families that need this kind of help have nowhere to turn.”
Shmully Raskin will serve as liaison to Ahavas Chesed and will coordinate the schedule. He can be contacted at 347-996-8666 or Benzsfish@aol.com.
Are you saying that Bais Shmuel folks don’t follow basic shulchan oruch?! Like, is the food served in shul kosher?
Better a Freiyak Chossid without a beard than a farfrumte misnaged with a beard. My boys go to OT. As long as they don’t get into drugs – I am happy. Anything else is bonus. And my girls, they will go to college.
chassidus chassidus
I don’t live in CH My sister davens in this shul. She tells me: 1) There is no talking in shul 2) Her kids love going and make to be there on time 3) The women’s section is full 4) The women love to listen to the drosho given at the women’s kiddush To all nay sayers: How does this compare with where you daven, and how you daven? To all nay sayers: Did you ever learn about Ahavas Yisroel as the Rebbe taught it? Did you ever learn about chillul Hashem (posting such comments on a forum open to… Read more »
There is a Bais Shmuel community and there is the rest of Crown Heights. I am proud to be part of the BS community and that is no BS!
It’s nice to see someone finally having the courage to post his name. This is not the first time that we see members of Lubavitch fighting with each other and hiding as they throw such huge ” bombes” as yourself, all these people including Bundy Freundlich and those that appose him will not post their names just incase someone will find out that they actually have an opinion on the matter. May you continue to be a “Kanoie” and keep fighting for what’s right for us and our children.
Yonoson Blachman, Baltimore MD
Your father had chassidishness stamped onto his forehead. There were many really chassidish men who did not have beards, but that did not make them less chassidish. They did things to make the Rebbe happy and they sure were “alright”. Probably more than just alright.
I am really ticked off by some of these comments. It ain’t the beard, man – it’s the man that counts.
My dad didn’t have a beard and he was alright. If my kids don’t have beards and they turn out alright – that’s just fine.
To here is a headline
I agree, a kappota does not make a chosid, neither does a beard. I am a chossid without either. I do chessed and that is the root word of chossid. The chitzonious (Outward appearances) mean nothing. It isn’t the levush (like other chassidim) but the pnimius (inside) and ma’asim.
Buddy, we support the schools. We are on the board (even those among us without a bord). We pay full tuition. It is OUR schools, and we aren’t too happy with your frummie kids that bring all the hypocracy and fakery to influence OUR kids. You teach your kids that you are holy because you use only a certain milk, and your cookies have 3 hechsherim on them – phooey on your fake yiddishkeit.
to #27 thanks. I bet your kids and their TV influence, goyeshe music, mom’s with mini skirts, fully dressed, with husbands ,and male firiends influence our kids. go start your own bais shemuel school WHERE YOU CAN PAY A LITTLE EXTRA AND MANIPULATE THE SCHOOL SYSTEM with your modern approach
to 27:
i love beis shmuel and all the people in it. serious i do but dont wearing a kapote and sending your kids to a frum school does not a chosid make! it takes much more
All you people think you are frummer than us, but all you do is gossip and bad mouth each other, and are happy to see someone else suffer. When did you ever do a chesed for someone? Lend money, give a job, help a mossad? Your beards are not worth anything – it’s just facial hair. You are all pretenders and fakers. So go ahead and knock others. That’s all you do.
How dare you call us a Conservative Shul?? We have a mechitza, don’t use a mike on shabbos, and don’t give aliyios to women. That makes us Orthodox!! Look, we might be a little modern in our approach to Yidstuff, but we are still chassidish, many wearing kappotas, and send our children to farfrumt mosdos.
“these teachers are in that job bcuz they had no self esteem…. “, you may be right, but they can make or break our kids. Our kids spend more time each day with these teachers than with us. Many of these teachers openly mock BS, (and so do the principals).
and #24, you bring up a good point – it’s not “all about me” having a great time at BS. I need to consider mt kid’s future and prospects of shidduchim with some of the “holier than thou” families.
i also think beards are important, but ad kedei kach? chevre, give these people a chance!! first go reach out to them with love and kindness and then mention Beards
and #9, if you dont know, it happens to be that in yiddish “bord” is a beard…
Don’t get me started on shidduchim! I got many a “not interested” when the other side heard where i daven. Now, when a shaddchan asks which shul I belong to, I learned to lie. But upon reflection, mabe I am not interested in any name who turns me down because i belong to Beth Shmu.
Mr 22 you need some self esteem and if you get some now maybe you kids will have a normal life……….
His Rebbe’s snide remark?????? these teachers are in that job bcuz they had no self esteem….
I had a “wake up call” when my son told me that his Rebbe made a snide remark about BS. I did not want to disadvantage my children in school and later in shiduchim by my attendance at BS. I think it is a great shul, but it comes with a heavy price (in more ways than one).
is why they take these comments seriously and even dignify them with a response!
I’m sure the poster(s) about the beards do as much chesed as those of which they speak. hmph.
amazing organization! Once again Bais Shmuel doing the right thing!
Blame their “rabbi” for the level of freikeit and lack thereof. He speaks “lofty” thoughts in his lectures but has no problem with committing torah prohibitions.
…means “ha! melamed and torah have nothing in common.”
its a very nice thing what they are doing, beards or no beards doing a good deed is always good. but unfortunately its all about PR, there are so many shuls in CH like Getzel & Empire Shtibul which have alot more shiurim, Minyanim and programs and who give hundreds or thousands to the residents of CH and to chabad worldwide, they just dont go every week and plaster it on all the websites. lets see some more action from beis shmuel and less talking!! is it all about helping someone or is it all about everyone knowing that they… Read more »
“The action is the ‘mane’ thing!”
this nis the sickest comments i have read. im sure our rebbe would bve very proud. mb and the guiys keep up the good work. there are sick people out there
On most faces you can make Kiddush Levana.
How many other Conservative Shuls are there in CH?
You guys should maybe think why people do not want to grow their beards..
Growing their beards might mean, that they would have to act like Men who do have beards…
Such as you people posting disgusting remarks-
using peoples names!? AMAZING ROLE MODELS!
Yechiel M., you go on a public chabad site and post someone’s name with no shame, no problem at all to embaress someone in public and tell him to go and grow a beard…What is wrong with you?….why don’t you learn to be a mentch and then decide what to tell others to do…Unbelievable…shame on you.
A mol is do a yid on a Board un amol is do a Board on a yid
ober mir darfen zain a yid mit a board
That’s all that matters.
You are right, the Members of Bais Shmuel especialy the board members such as Mony Bistritzky should start grown their beards without delay. Thanks for posting, you’re an inspiration to everyone in Lubavitch.
– Yechiel M.
What do beards have to do with anything?
LOLOL
I saw lots of beards in the picture!
IF WE GROW OUR BEARDS YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT…
Why don’t you join the shul, participate in their programs, get to know the people and then with love and kindness you will convince them to ‘grow their beards’.
What exactly were you intendinto accomplish with postinga snide ermark in response to an article that is completely positive?
but why cant they grow their beards?