A nighttime visit to the Chabad synagogue
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- There’s a Hasidic community in Crown Heights Brooklyn. The Chabad Lubavich sect is headquartered there. Chabad-Lubavich is so different from the sects of Williamsburg, that this neighborhood feels completely foreign to me even though I am so familiar with the Hasidic community. On this visit, I had a nice time roaming around during the emissary get-together and enjoyed that unlike in Williamsburg, I feel much more at ease here.
Freida, you are a living treasure for the Jewish Communities in Brooklyn & for all of us in the wider world.
Hi Frieda - Yes, Chabad sometimes feels like the most ‘Modern’ chassidus. Perhaps it’s the outreach activities they practice, fearlessly bringing yiddishkeit where even the ‘angels fear to tread’. I’m so happy you find yourself so comfortable there in Crown Heights. It’s always nice to find a good community zone where you might be able to connect. 😇❤️
God's angels do not fear
Why wouldn't she feel comfortable there? Chabad IS the most open of chassidic "sects" (I hate that word!).
I am glad to see her at The Annual Women's Conference! People should look into it-- it is extremely interesting! As much as the Rebbeim on shluchus are vital to a Jewish community, the Rebbetzins are truly the glue who holds them together! There are some great interviews with people (and great sheitls!), on some UA-cam channels about the conference! They're fun to watch! I often wish on one's way "out" of chassidus, they would stumble into 770 and meet some of the more modern parts of the frum communities that exist, and see that there are COUNTLESS varieties and levels of observance, including one to suit "you"! Don't get me wrong, people can do what they want, but I know DOZENS of Chabadniks who wear pants, with their sheitl, while doing carpool. Or super short skirts, lol. (my husband used to say he would sometimes have to look away bc it made him uncomfortable, lol!). Although we live in LA, so we probably have a larger population of "Hot Chanis", as they are known in their world, and others, than NYC does. bC of the warmer weather?? Who knows!
Anyway, there are a lot of divorced chabaniks, more so than in other communities, I think. But they don't want to leave the community or Yiddishkeit, which is always nice to see. So we try to toss them right back into the sea! But whatever works for a person!😅
Love this!! I use the Chabad website so much and when I am out and about, love their on-line tehillim!! ❤
It seems that this is where you feel most at home Frieda! May Hashem bless you in this community!
I could watch your videos all day. I adore you & admire your perspective.
thank you my friend!
So true thank you for your wonderful videos without bias to our people or communities. I feel sad for what you went threw in the passed but I’m sure by now you realize that there are always good, wonderful people in this world & not unfortunately some are not.
Maybe you can do series about different communities thru-out this amazing country. Thank you again.
Thanks!
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We’re modern orthodox but our kids go to the community Chabad day school. They love it and get such a solid education there. We absolutely love Chabad
I'd love to see you do a documentary about Crown Heights like you did with Williamsburg
You have a gift as a story teller. Your descriptive words, voice tone and body language make me feel like I am there with you. For instance you said POPPING. Great word fantastic clip
awesome. I even said it twice ha ha. Hopefully I can bring you in for a full visit to Crown Heights soon!
Love that you educate
You're the best Frieda
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I always wished you would visit Lubavitch 🤙🏽🙌🏼
Good Shabbos. May HaShem bless you greatly. Bill. UK
Chabad is such a warm and welcoming group. There is no comparison between it and Satmar.
So glad you feel comfortable with Chabad ! This is such a great place to be indeed, cool and modern and at the same time so deep inside orthodox practice and values. I feel the same, so comfortable, with no pressure of behaving a certain way. Just acceptance I suppose
❤❤❤love your videos☺️🙏♥️
Thank you Lydia!
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you still learn that being orthodox is about religion and values, not about peer pressure! please remember that! I used to be satmar, now I am Chabad, so I can really relate!
Good Shabbos. I never realized that you feel like you're holding your breath in the other neighborhoods
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Aren't they wonderful? I love Crown Heights and the people that live and worship there.
Thank you for sharing this. It’s beautiful and, at the same time, amazing.
I just received an invitation to the women's closing ceremony. I plan to watch it. This is the last day of the 5 days, I understand. There are 5,000 women there.
5000! WOW! Happy New Moon to all! Gorgeous day where I am making bread ❤
Lubavitchers are very different than Satmar.
very. it bothers me when they are conflated.
I say that not as a Jew. I am Roman Catholic but I admire the Hassids for how they have held fast their traditions. Take it from me, my religion was gutted 50 years ago by men who were going to throw out everything that was old and usher in a new dawn of blah blah blah.
Have you ever considered expanding your
Channel to
Include crown heights me chabad? You would
Be wonderful at it.
I knew that was happening, so it's interesting to have you posting a video. I have an email from Chabad in Arizona about this gathering. Thank you for this video.
Are you interested in more Chabad content?
@@FriedaVizelBrooklynI am! 😂
I heard that 770 synagogue is very popular in NY. But can a Satmar girl go to Chabad place , full of guys downstairs ?
Ahhh wish I would have met you!!!
Frieda you have such a pure soul return to being Orthodox. The Hasidic values just flow from your soul
Ha ha… I think comments like these are sweet; we’ll see where my path takes me.
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn yeah, I was gonna say that’s for you to decide and know what you’re feeling or in which direction you feel pulled and at home.
People talk a lot of smack about Chabad…I have found that Lubavitchers love you simply for being a yid, or even further, just for being a human being. Most of them are very decent and kind. That’s probably why you don’t feel you have to hold your breath in Crown Heights.😊
Yes, you are right. I also have my prejudices I carry from assumptions about Chabad but I've gotten to know the nicest, realest people who are Chabad, and I can't help but feel the love back.
Lubavith is accepting of all Jews.
Less insular than other groups.
You would be welcome.
I went there as a non Orthodox Jewish woman to shop for Passover one year
Wore pants no problem
Everyone was kind
Frieda I am so glad you decided to finally visit Chabad. The main difference between Chabad and other chassidim is the belief that if you were birn to a Jewish mother then you are absolutely 100 percent Jewish. What the Rebbe emphasized is total acceptance of every Jew and to help each Jew/Jewess do another mitzvah. For women the emphasis is lighting Shabbos Candles, keeping a kosher kitchen and (if married) keeping family purity. Chabad shluchim live in all parts over the world, just to help another Jew come closer to Torah and mitzvos each at their own pace.
They are accepting if non Jews like myself, too!❤
I am Christian and I have many Chabad friends. They are wonderful, welcoming people and I have learned so much about Judaism from my connection with them. Other than Modern Orthodox, the women seem to have a much more elevated presence in their community than in other Jewish sects. I’m new to your channel and I am enjoying your videos. I’m hoping to take a tour this summer.
Thank you for your comment. I have come to see the same thing.
I love this can you make more visiting chabad of 770
Freeda maybe you can get into the photo ?
haha!!
The area’s where the Jewish people live looks so safe and wholesome. The thing that I admire about the Jewish people is the unity and wholesomeness. I started out about 3 years ago just curious about different religions. I’ve learned so much about the Jew’s, Mormonism, Jehovah Witnesses, and several other high demand religions. I respect all religions, keep up the good work❤️🥰😊
I could go for a bagel and a schmear.
Chabad are nice people. Long live the Jews, from friends who aren't Jewish.
I still don't get why that tunnel was such a big deal in the news..
If the war in Israel was quiet, you probably wouldn’t…
Yeah, me neither.
@@user-bw3fl7fj9w that doesn't explain why it was elevated to international news
More like why wasn’t it? A huge tunnel system that has been used for years with matrasses and barely anyone batter an eye
Cool merchandise! 👚
where what
Oh there was a link on the video to a shop with 5 or 6 shirts and mugs … it looked like you had made them. 🤷🏻♀️
Anyway, lovely channel and videos! 💙
@@DrRahmanBeckwith Oh yes, I completely forgot I have merch, ha ha. I thought maybe you saw me shop in the video, which regrettably I didn't do!
When was this recorded??
The Mushka gathering was last year. Is it a new one?
Our rebbetzin left to NY on Thursday.
no, it was this year. the mushka gathering (lol lol) is yearly.
Oh man, I would have sent you to meet people! I hope you're there for an interview!
No, I’m still in “scouting” phase. I am feeling very ready for a tour of the shul and I’m trying to find a woman to show me the women’s section and I have someone in mind for the men’s section.
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn you need someone old enough to tell you what the veiber shul was like in the Rebbe’s times. That would be someone in their 60’s or older. Ideally someone who was in shul when the Rebbe had the heart attack bc that was a very intense moment. It’s been described to me by a woman who was there bc the veiber shul is a big part of that moment.
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn also I messaged you back on IG with an idea of someone but she wasn’t there for that.
@@_wesleyhome_ She just shared her CURRENT experience. Clearly she felt it was interesting enough to talk about. Anyone walking there would have seen the same scene. They would all have experienced it in their own way but the scene would have been the same. By talking to a 60+er who had one or more experiences of their own you travel to fantasy land. 770 is very much alive today.
@@chasidance Lubavitch is more than just 770. At least the Lubavitch that I am a grateful part of. Could be that a gezhe Lubavitcher whose family goes back to Nevel has a thing or two to share. Gut Shabbos.
It is wonderful to see people with a “share Judaism and God with the world” mindset
Yes indeed. The chabbad seem to be able to make peace with the modern world and still maintain their faith and traditions. ( and this is the observations of a non Jew , so someone who is a Jew could see this entirely differently ).
@@bettymaines6305Yes!!! This is why I have such love and respect for them. I am also a Christian and I really appreciate how they accept the modern world and not let it affect their values.
I'm not Jewish, just watching to learn... Could you please explain just what is so unusual and mind-blowing about what is shown here? 🤷
Her old Hatmar sect of Jews were only allowed flip phones with the Internet blocked. Chabad is a whole different bunch.
@@AccessKelly they seem more like orthodox than chassidim to me.
Did you mean "Modern Orthodox?"
BOTH are Orthodox Jews.@@rachmunshine9474
Shabbat Shalom 💙🇮🇱💙🇮🇱❤️
Free Palestine from Israeli oppression
Gut Shabbos
You too!
Kosher smart phones! I wanted one because maybe they don’t track you.
My son calls it Hasidic spyware lol
770 rules the world!!
So maybe learn some Sichos in Yiddish said to women to understand the philosophy?
Sichos for research sake… how kosher is that?
@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn Torah for a side reason is Kosher, Talmud Sanhedrin 105, b. What is fascinating to me is that a Phd in Education once taught me about the steps of curriculum structure and I noticed a similar structure in Sichos. The Sicha often starts with "Orientation" which is a step that the " US Marines" start with, when planning their missions it is called O-SMEAC. Then there is the "human experience" or "Pshat" then the "big ideas" or "Remez" then there is "Skill acquisition" or "Drush" then there is "Over arching concepts that apply to other domains" or "Sod" and then there is the "Core concept" which is the authentic "Chassidus" on that subject. I found good secular critical thinking and the analysis in Sichos are quite similar and intuitive. BTW you have a certain Tahara about you that is rare in the secular world, it is a gift that allows you to blend worlds.
Just do like Pearl. Claim you don't learn and then 'read' everything ever printed about Torah in English.
@@chasidance English doesn't do justice to the wealth of Yiddish expressions, Frieda can read Yiddish. The first 4 vol. of Likkutei Sichos are classics establishing the CrownHeights community in the 50s these Sichos made Americans into Chassidim.
Where else does one read it, apart from the Forward?
Also, Yiddish is written using the Hebrew alphabet. I don't know how good her modern, conversational spoken Herbrew is, but she certainly reads biblical Hebrew and can therefore read and speak Yiddish fluently. She also grew up bilingual, as many chassidic Jews did, altho the definition of bilingual varied from household to household.
I’m sorry to say this, and I mean it with 0 hate or malice. Something about chabad is very strange to me. Having grown up neturei karta I know about strange!
Somethings just off
I’m looking to interview an ex-Naturei Karta person. Do you think we can discuss?
I'm Chabad.
Ask me anything you want.
I'll be glad to uncover the mystery for you in my own personal, honest way.
Chabad is an outlier
true
An outlier of what?? Chassidus, maybe. BUT within the Jewish Orthodox circles, they are included, but considered the most observant/religious. With Conservadox being the least.
@@skontheroadyou answered your own question…look at that! 👊🏼