Kinus HaShluchim 2025, Shabbos report: Crown Heights Pulse, lay ppl, elderly- Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

So, a report of Shabas Kinlim, the Kron Heights Pulse. I had the opportunity to circle around Kron Heights beginning with Friday night. The shul is packed. Thousands of people, Schluim, their supporters, Kronites, Alabatim happened to end up sitting near Mashia and talking about and from there I went to the host where I stayed and there were about 20 people at the table and in Hungary in Tel Aviv and their supporters, friends. Wonderful, wonderful time. The next morning, Davenion in 770, but I couldn't get in. It's packed, packed, packed, packed. So I davened at the window and I heard all the and then the rest of the day I had a chance to go around Kron Heights to visit people. So I wanted to say is bustling the are bustling it's happening there's an avira an environment of excitement and happiness it's elated it really is I happened to meet Friday night when I I was in 770 for a guy with a stryu someone who I know here from Burough Park he lives I think in my but he used to live in Burough Park and I said to him, "My hi, what are you doing here?" He says, "I I'm a wannabe." You hear that? So, the kinlim and the avid on the weekend, the environment creates this buzz. The kronized people really need to be not just lorded but uplifted in the sense of it's galdic mammish. They open their homes, sleep in the basement, sleep here, sleep on couches. Place for everybody. Just come in. If there's room in the heart, there's room in the house. I also had an opportunity to meet some older people. It's part of what I do, oral family history. And we we spoke about things that are sometimes a little painful. And we spoke about it in one particular situation. They're in their 80s, mid and to late 80s, and the wife, the husband, and and the wife, you know, was saying, "They're not the way they used to be." theim I said look let's not look at the negative her father-in-law was a balm nefish in Russia and I said it's a different time it's a different period and trust me they have a lot of midnish it's a different type of midn for self-sacrifice one thing's for sure that what I find as I go around Crown Heights on on on the Shabas and speak to this one and that one. The Crown Heightsers are swept into the environment. Even those that maybe don't have children are not not most of their children areas, they're still swept up by the vibe, the vibe. And as uh Shabas was ending, so again I barely I made it into 774 of Korea with we did it and then I went out because I needed air to breathe it. It's stifling there and I was sitting on a bench and it was an is it seemed to be an Israeli. Uh and he I asked him where is he from? Where what is he doing? He said he's in India. So I asked him how does it work? Who sends you there and all that? He says You ask the rebba for a braha. If he gives you a braha, you go. You don't even need mosquitoes. He says the secretariat. I wasn't going to argue with him. Yes. No. I asked him how many are there in India? 17. I mentioned a particular person who I know was like one of the there or the again I don't know the politics. And he says, "Nah, you know, even he could is the head." You know, it was just very interesting how yashb again I'm not making a political statement. He's right. He's wrong. Just he's here and he's here and he's happy. Then there was another another from England who reached out to me a few years ago about a video made about the Reb's brother and we were talking and he asks me about what do I think about going into the Reb's room and he said he's afraid to go into the Reb's room. So I asked him, "Are you afraid as much as if I stand here with a knife and I'm about to stab you? Do you have those heart palpitations of fear?" He didn't answer, but he said he just he doesn't go in. And he asked me, "What's my opinion?" and we spoke about that it's 30 years after Giml Thomas and more than 30 years and they're all coming I once drove him to my after Gimmel Thomas I think it was in 2005 or so and in the middle of the ride he says he asks me kum it was it was l timeas kum Why why is everyone flocking to the crown heights? It's after Gimmel Thomas. And he said to me after he answering his own question, Valdo is their address. Here is the address 770. I could tell you that those words are true today as they were when Rabio sent them to me and as they were and will [clears throat] be forever. There are different folks with different strokes and different attitudes and different shittas and different you know we're not all made from the same fiber. We come from different cultures. One thing's for sure this is the address. So this is a little bit a little report about my shabas in heights with theim and hel that all theim and their supporters and friends these these good deeds should storm the heavens and bring mashia down together with our thank