Thousands of Chabad rabbis posed today for their annual massive portrait. The photo carries added meaning this year as Rabbi Zvi Kogan, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in the UAE, was absent, with the photo being taken less than a week after his kidnapping and murder in Dubai.
“After a year of tremendous challenges, this conference unites the leaders who stand on the frontlines of the global Jewish community,” says Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky, who has stepped into his late father, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, role as director of the Chabad annual conference. “From the war zones of Ukraine and Israel to rising antisemitism worldwide, Shluchim bring unwavering support and hope to every individual, ensuring no one is left behind. This weekend renews their strength and mission to serve with even greater impact.”
Video and photos courtesy of COLlive.com:
so many frum men on their smartphones
Saying Kaddish and Tehillim on their phones.
So nice and inspiring, so why ruin it by announcing that it’s about “קידוש שם ליובאוויטש”??? – twice, in both the English and Hebrew announcements – What’s wrong with קידוש שם שמים?
They are trying to promote Habad and their late Rebbuh, don’t you understand?
I told some Lubavitchers here in Baltimore, “Chabad shiluchim don’t keep Shabbos, they share Shabbos!” Then I said that three essential components of the Mishkan, the focal point of Avodas Hashem in the midbar, were the Mizbeach, Menorah and Shulchan…Menachem Mendel Schneerson.” They were ecstatic and asked how it was that I, a Litvishe, non-Lubavitcher, saw the pattern but they had not. They are still wondering.
When are you converting to the Chabad faith?
Obviously, you’ve also been a victim of the Lubavitcher underhanded brainwashing that puts the worship of the Rebbe above worship of Hashem.
Boy, someone is awful proud of this! So many pictures…
Why does Matzav make such a big deal of this self-aggrandizement event? Why do you think anyone (besides for Lubavitch) actually cares?
For all the good some of these Shluchim do, at the end, Lubavitch as a whole is seen by everyone else as a separatist movement, outside of Orthodox Judaism. They’re not Litvish (though they dress the part), and they’re NOT chassidish (though they claim to have sole ownership of “Chassidus”).
a Lubavitcher point blank: “Is the Rebbe dead?”, and maybe one in ten-thousand will give you a firm “yes”. A much larger percent will proudly say “Of course not”, while most will start hemming and hawing.
The personal worship of the person of the Rebbe is not new. Read enough and you’ll see this was cultivated in Lubavitch already 100 years ago. Yet now they decided that they can go on without a proper leader, without a Manhig.
Don’t give them a platform, don’t showcase their rallies. You don’t want to completely expel them – fine, but don’t try to make as if they’re a part of normal, mainstream Judaism.