By COLlive reporter
The Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch – 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights is trying to regulate the foot traffic that frequents the daily meals that are served for bochurim.
Having been closed for 3 months during the coronavirus pandemic, the dormitory at 1414 President Street was reopened late summer but that isn’t stopping visitors from mingling with students.
Last week, the Yeshiva announced the installment of a full-height stainless steel turnstile at the entrance of the dining room in the dormitory’s basement, only allowing one person at a time to pass through its revolving arms.
Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Zalman Labkowsky, Mashpia Rabbi Shloma Zarchi and administrator Rabbi Moshe Meir Gluckowsky wrote in a letter to bochurim that the mechanical gate was long overdue.
“The turnstile is a continuation of all the efforts we have recently invested to better the dining room, and all this is for the sake of our students,” they wrote.
“Every day, tens of people who aren’t official students of our yeshiva come to the dining room every day – something that has often led to our own students not receiving what they deserve.”
Bochurim of the Yeshiva learn in the main shul and the “small zal” upstairs at 770, both of which spaces are open to visitors from around the world. With operating expenses rising, the Yeshiva is trying to manage the spaces that are under its direct control.
I hope there is an emergency exit in case of a fire ch”v!
Please can we talk more about fire safety at 770, the doors should never be blocked or locked. With the huge amount of people, an extra alternate exit could also be added.
This is a very bad idea because there are many bochrim that learn and Daven in 770 and spend there day there and are not officially registered mostly because they have a place to sleep on their own and they will not have a place to eat 3 times a day due to this
Food costs money I pay out of my empty pocket and my son stay hungry because of uninvited guests
Find some sponsor s for those who don’t have
You don’t need to sleep there to get a meal. If you are signed up as a student there you can eat there as well
You still have to register in the yeshivah.
It’s like saying that bochurim shouldn’t apply to Ohlei Torah if they live in crown heights.
It’s like socialism, sounds all nice and dandy, until you think of the cost and consequences
Instead of barring doors why can’t we raise money to have more food so poor ppl who came seeking a hot meal aren’t left hungry with nowhere to turn
Lol
Agreed
Why don’t you raise money and open your home?
We do BH a few nights a week and on shabbos,it
A lot of communities that I have been have a concept of a soup kitchen for poor people it should not come out of a yeshiva’s pocket and on the expense of other students yes correct poor people also need food and it’s the communities responsibility not a yeshiva’s
I always thought of 1414 for shabbos as the Rebbes mother’s home, for those who who have no where else to go, at least for shabbos … is it also closed to outsiders for shabbos ?
Why should the yeshiva pay?
Do the Bochurim need a card for entry? If not how does this stop random people entering?
Now do 770
While American parents are paying a pretty penny for their sons to be in yeshiva, many Israeli parents (not all) continue to do whatever is possible not to pay tuition, or to pay as little as possible. The fact is that the Yeshiva and American parents are paying for what the Israeli parents are not. This isn’t an Israeli vs. American thing. This is about a group of people who have normalized taking advantage of the system. We all struggle with tuition, but to repeatedly not pay for your child’s Chinuch is unconscionable.
why to write what you dont know.. the fact is that no israel talmid pay less than 400$ per month if he doesn’t pay the yeshiva cancel his I20 – students visa and won’t let him in to the dormitory and food
Hi I have two sons in 770 we are paying 1300 shekels a month for food and Dorm it may not sound a lot but when wages are much lower
We are very grateful for the hachnos orchim crown heights families give our children and look forward to pay back when your children come to Israel for sem
1300 Israeli shekels =
405.7716 U.S. dollars
Unfortunately there are a lot of American bochurim that are also not registered and also eat from the kitchen and steal it’s not only an Israeli thing time to wake up
Time to rethink tuition