Ask a Lubavitcher Anything

[Dan]

Touche, though it would be funnier if the list of other cities where the same or worse happens wasn't so long.

Ignorance is easy when you're not on the receiving end of it.
But I do agree that things are improving.

[YOSEF]

This is like when secular Jews say they have never experience anti-semitism, so it must be exaggerated.

At PTC, Rafi had a rebbe that told my wife and I that he would put a picture of the Rebbe up with the other gedolim on the wall, but he didn't want to offend anyone.

Do Lubavitch schools put up pictures of other gedolim? Do R' Moshe Feinstein, R' Elyashiv, R' Yaakov, R' Aharon, and R' Yoelish grace their walls?

[Pony]

Do Lubavitch schools put up pictures of other gedolim? Do R' Moshe Feinstein, R' Elyashiv, R' Yaakov, R' Aharon, and R' Yoelish grace their walls?

The Lakewood yeshiva that my sons attend has pictures of all of the above and the Lubavitcher Rebbe among many others.

[aygart]

David Elliot is chicken, not meat.
I'm talking about Shor Habor meat, etc. You won't find that in a CLE or Lakewood restaurant or take out counter.

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[Dan]

Do Lubavitch schools put up pictures of other gedolim? Do R' Moshe Feinstein, R' Elyashiv, R' Yaakov, R' Aharon, and R' Yoelish grace their walls?

Not sure, never looked around a Lubavitch elementary school.
And the school in CLE actually does have pictures of the Rebbe and Alter Rebbe on their gedolim walls today. We were just taken aback at the language he used and why he even brought it up.

[Dan]

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Go on. Specific examples and policies please, because CLE Kosher copies many KCL policies.

[Pony]

Not sure, never looked around a Lubavitch elementary school.
And the school in CLE actually does have pictures of the Rebbe and Alter Rebbe on their gedolim walls today. We were just taken aback at the language he used and why he even brought it up.

The one time I was in Crown Heights to attend a chasuna that was in a boys yeshiva, I saw many pictures of the rebbe, some of the Firadiker Rebbe and not of anyone else.

[aygart]

Go on. Specific examples and policies please, because CLE Kosher copies many KCL policies.

I have seen it.

[aygart]

Not sure, never looked around a Lubavitch elementary school.
And the school in CLE actually does have pictures of the Rebbe and Alter Rebbe on their gedolim walls today. We were just taken aback at the language he used and why he even brought it up.

If you had to guess what would you say?

[Yehuda57]

Do Lubavitch schools put up pictures of other gedolim? Do R' Moshe Feinstein, R' Elyashiv, R' Yaakov, R' Aharon, and R' Yoelish grace their walls?

With exceptions, no. If they did, but omitted specific gedolim, one could ask why. If they only put up Chabad Rabbeim, what's the question?

[aygart]

The Lakewood yeshiva that my sons attend has pictures of all of the above and the Lubavitcher Rebbe among many others.

+1 for a girls school

[ExGingi]

Do Lubavitch schools put up pictures of other gedolim? Do R' Moshe Feinstein, R' Elyashiv, R' Yaakov, R' Aharon, and R' Yoelish grace their walls?

No.

[jj1000]

Do Lubavitch schools put up pictures of gedolim?

Not a thing afaik.

That goes for chabad roshei yeshivos and famous chassidim or rabbanim who would be called gedolim in other circles as well.

I think yeshivish are much more into pics of gedolim on walls of schools, do sepharic, MO, and other non-yeshivish schools do that? Do other chassidic schools do it?

[Pony]

With exceptions, no. If they did, but omitted specific gedolim, one could ask why. If they only put up Chabad Rabbeim, what's the question?

Why not show the kids to look up to all the great people in klal yisroel?

[YOSEF]

The Lakewood yeshiva that my sons attend has pictures of all of the above and the Lubavitcher Rebbe among many others.

Yes. BH.
I don't think it goes the other way though.

Not sure, never looked around a Lubavitch elementary school.

Ask people who send to those schools and let us know.


I don't think the chashivus for gedolim goes both ways.

[Dan]

I have seen it.

Go on. Specific examples and policies please, because CLE Kosher copies many KCL policies.

Which restaurants in Lakewood serve CHK meat?

[ExGingi]

Why not show the kids to look up to all the great people in klal yisroel?

https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=131899.msg2667978#msg2667978

[jj1000]

Why not show the kids to look up to all the great people in klal yisroel?

When did the custom of putting up pics of gedolim start?

@Lubavitchers when did the custom of putting up pics of the rebbe start? Did chassidim of the alter rebbe have paintings of the rebbe in their homes?

[Dan]

Yes. BH.
I don't think it goes the other way though.Ask people who send to those schools and let us know.


I don't think the chashivus for gedolim goes both ways.

Going off on a tangent here as I didn't ask why there was no Rebbe picture. The rebbi proactively said that it would be offensive to some.

With exceptions, no. If they did, but omitted specific gedolim, one could ask why. If they only put up Chabad Rabbeim, what's the question?

Correct.

That goes for chabad roshei yeshivos and famous chassidim or rabbanim who would be called gedolim in other circles as well.

Also a good point. There are no picture of R' Mendel or R' Yoel or Reb Volf or the Rosh in Chabad yeshivas either.

[dm123]

I grew up and lived my whole life in Lakewood. This has not been a thing since back to the last years of the rebbes life. Honestly, nobody cares about having "the fight against Lubavitch". It's a non issue and has been so for the last 25 years or so.

That's not what I heard from a semi-Heimish non-lubavitcher lakewood friend (I've heard from lubavitcher friends in lakewood too, but if the nonlubavitch ones get cheppered about it b/c they're "heimish", what does that tell you?). He said there are still a few yeshivish rebbeim and maggidei shiur for his kids that will knock lubavitch in front of the whole shiur. Yes, when there's antagonism in Lakewood it's only overwhelmingly "only" "soft antagonism" not "hard antagonism"  from what I've heard and BH it's seemingly getting much better, but let's not kid ourselves, there's still a way to go and it's not a one way street.