[Photos below.] The pre-Rosh Hashanah wave of visitors to the town of Uman in Ukraine peaked on Monday as around 9,000 boarded 50 flights from Ben-Gurion International Airport. Another 5,500 people will travel to Ukraine today on 28 flights to visit the kever of Rav Nachman of Breslov. Overall, some 18,000 Breslover chassidim and others will travel to spend Rosh Hashanah in Uman.
It is 200 years since the petirah of Rav Nachman.
“We smile all the way to Uman,” was written in a leaflet distributed in Bnei Brak. It was meant to encourage people to cover their eyes with scarves against “forbidden sights.”
“Support for flights without movies” is the name of a small group that several years ago encouraged frum travelers not to take regular flights unless they had cardboard that could cover the screens on the airplane seats in front of them.
This year the idea caught on that immodest sights may also be a threat outside the airplane – in the airport terminal, for example. So people are being encouraged to bring scarves along.
“In any cloth shop, ask for a thin lycra cloth 70 cm wide (blue, brown or black ) costing about 20 NIS,” reads one instruction. “It needs to be about 1.5 meters long … which is necessary so it will sit well and not flow in the wind.”
The leaflet notes that even if people laugh at someone wearing the scarf on his face, those covering their eyes “will be rewarded a thousand fold.”
In a telephone interview from Uman, one visitor named Avinoam added: “It may sound ridiculous to you, but it has been more successful than expected. I recommend that you try it.”
See below for photos of visitors arriving in Uman:
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{Haaretz/Matzav.com}
fascinating religion!!-similar to Judaism.
First the article against kiruv – no this shouldn’t Matzav consider not publicizing such extreme positions?
they should all wear burqas
veils? I didnt know moslems revere R’ Nachman? Learn something new everyday
a bunch of mindless morons making a gigantic chillel hashem
IE: Veils
B”H that HKBH created meshugoyim with a brocho
that a meshugener doesn’t know that he’s meshuga
because if they would know they would go crazy
no one should knock what makes someone else feel closer to Hashem.Unless they are being “oiver”(which i don’t think they are)…you do your avoidas hashem your way,and Uman will inspire them…no need to mock…
I MUST ADD:the only thing I’m not too sure is with da’as torah are the veils…that’s:
A.copying arab levush
B.kol hamosif goiraya.our gedolai hador
are careful with their eyes and they don’t wear veils.
Even the goyim have picked up on this:
http://www.pprune.org/showthread.php?p=5920671#post5920671
Pure am haaratzus
To quote my 12 year old daughter.
“WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT; WHATEVER FLIPS YOUR PAN CAKE.” IF THIS MAKES PEOPLE MORE COMMITTED TO KLAL YISRAEL AND TO HKBH, GREAT.
I JUST CAN’T IMAGINE ROSH HASHONA AT A WOODSTOCK AWAY FROM MY WIFE, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY. BUT HEY, THAT’S ME.
BTW,THE KERCHIEF BUSINESS, ISN’T THIS A CLASSICAL CASE OF “UBICHUKTEYCHEM LO TELEYCHU”. THEY ARE COPYING MOSLEMS AS BENCHMARKS FOR BEHAVIOR. DID ANY GADOL SANCTION THIS BEHAVIOR.
(DON’T THINK THAT I AM A FAN OF THIS DAAS TORAH BUSINESS, BUT I DO BELIEVE THERE ARE HALACHIK IMPLICATIONS AGAINST SUCH BEHAVIOR)
Enough ripping people going to Uman! No one in today’s generation is on the level of Rebbe Nachman’s small finger, so when he said people should daven by him, to scoff this is a huge, huge sin!
not so similar.
These veils have little slits near the eyes, so the wearer can safely look out at anything he desires without being noticed.
HA HA
loved that comment, so true
what does chabad have to do with uman
This is getting out of control.
Isn’t this beged isha?
And, yes, of course, they look absolutely ridiculous. But seriously, what else is new?