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Talking of which. The following was posted on a WhatsApp group. I am totally repulsed by it. How low can people go? Recruit the A"R for your business?

hvaces42 · « **Reply #214 on:** March 06, 2018, 03:10:28 PM »

Quote from: ExGingi on March 06, 2018, 02:51:21 PM

Talking of which. The following was posted on a WhatsApp group. I am totally repulsed by it. How low can people go? Recruit the A"R for your business?

So Pesach in Crown Heights, if advertised as being close to 770, or in Cambria Heights, if advertised as near the Ohel, would also offend you? The guy invested a lot of money and the only reason to be in that G-d forsaken place in the first place is to be near the Alter Rebbe (A"R is a type of assault weapon AFAIK). So a Pesach program there shouldnt necessitate the mention of the Alter Rebbe. It's zelb farshtendlich.

ExGingi · « **Reply #215 on:** March 06, 2018, 03:31:43 PM »

Quote from: hvaces42 on March 06, 2018, 03:10:28 PM

So Pesach in Crown Heights, if advertised as being close to 770, or in Cambria Heights, if advertised as near the Ohel, would also offend you? The guy invested a lot of money and the only reason to be in that G-d forsaken place in the first place is to be near the Alter Rebbe (A"R is a type of assault weapon AFAIK). So a Pesach program there shouldnt necessitate the mention of the Alter Rebbe. It's zelb farshtendlich.

It wouldn't be my style, but if it the program would consist of השתטחות, I don't think I would feel repulsed. IIRC the ESHEL hotel/hachnosas orchim in Crown Heights advertised in the past Pesach in Crown Heights, but all they offered was lodging and food (presumably at high kashrus standard).

Let's translate some of the text of the ad:

Boutique Pesach [experience]
At the compound of the Holy Tziyun of the Alter-Rebbe, Ba'al HaTanya.

hvaces42 · « **Reply #216 on:** March 06, 2018, 04:23:14 PM »

Quote from: ExGingi on March 06, 2018, 03:31:43 PM

It wouldn't be my style, but if it the program would consist of השתטחות, I don't think I would feel repulsed. IIRC the ESHEL hotel/hachnosas orchim in Crown Heights advertised in the past Pesach in Crown Heights, but all they offered was lodging and food (presumably at high kashrus standard).

Let's translate some of the text of the ad:

Boutique Pesach [experience]
At the compound of the Holy Tziyun of the Alter-Rebbe, Ba'al HaTanya.

Youre playing semantics. If it said Boutique Pesach Experience in Haditch you wouldn't have had the same problem?

aygart · « **Reply #217 on:** March 06, 2018, 04:29:51 PM »

Quote from: hvaces42 on March 06, 2018, 04:23:14 PM

Youre playing semantics. If it said Boutique Pesach Experience in Haditch you wouldn't have had the same problem?

Words matter

ExGingi · « **Reply #218 on:** March 06, 2018, 04:39:30 PM »

Quote from: hvaces42 on March 06, 2018, 04:23:14 PM

Youre playing semantics. If it said Boutique Pesach Experience in Haditch you wouldn't have had the same problem?

If it would have no reference to the Tziyun, I wouldn't view it as any different than any other Pesach program.

Ukraine is cheap, which could be a reason for people to go there for Pesach programs, but I doubt the weather is too good. So they needed to find something else to draw crowds? Distasteful.

yitzgar · « **Reply #219 on:** March 06, 2018, 05:05:00 PM »

Not saying it's ok, but seems to me the same as advertising a hotel a short walk from the kosel

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