Lubavitch Shul under Attack

for a few days before yom kippur you know yom kippur we speak about the importance of asking for forgiveness from each other because the day itself it's fasting on yom kippur that itself atones for the transgressions between men and hashem man and god but those issues between ourselves you need to humble yourself call your friend and talk to him and ask for forgiveness for something that you did that was inappropriate and i i speak about this because of a very important issue that's happening right here in brooklyn in borough park where i live and it involves chabad lobovich it also involves other hasidic community or those that belong officially unofficially to sapmar and other such communities and this is the controversy that's been brewing and stewing about the hasidic shul on 12th avenue 41st street called anche and lubavich base yitzhak after my dear rajashiva harav hagon rabiyitzhak dove bear so today i'm going to talk about the importance of this shoe and also the importance and understanding why this shule is not like another shoe which has a board and it makes decisions and you could do whatever you want at the end of the day and to understand this a little a little perspective it needs to be known the lebavich movement the 200 year movement has an entire background and the background is that there are bayem the holy rabbis of lubavitch starting from the balatanya who everyone agrees was a great sadiq he wrote the altar and he wrote tanya and others everyone understands that that was passed to from generation to generation to hour and it continues today all of the institutions all of the buildings all of the programs are headed by them they were the final say in lubavitch there's no such a thing that people tell that ebba what to do it doesn't exist it never has it never is and never will be they set the agenda we don't set the agenda and therefore i speak to the rabonim who are dealing with this case in besdon now who does the property belong to a board that many say illegally stacked the board and decided now that they want to put up you know condominiums and give and give the shul a beautiful shoe in the basement it's not up to them it doesn't belong to them it belongs to the bavitch it belongs to them whatever i'm not going into you know which organization but it belongs to let's just say the chabad la babbage umbrella this is also documented in america from the early 1920s when rabbi jacobson rabbi simpson rabbi rifkin rabbi levitan rabbit kozanovsky these were the people who were here early on and they were supervising all of the barbecues not only in the greater new york area but also the greater eastern coast east coast etc and particularly in the new york area brownsville in the 20s and 30s was called yerushalayim of america the jerusalem of america with two hundred thousand jews there with hundreds of shules and stiblach okay it's so hard to believe because the neighborhood is so decrepit today and uh you know very different although there is now a group of chabad that have moved in in the area and i have a minion and they have programs and i'm going to rebuild with hashem's help with god's help but nevertheless rabbi jacobson rabbi israel jacobson you could see in his his safer is he caught in live near his role his memories it's documented it's kind of a diaries first hand not a kind of it is a diary a first-hand account and he tells you exactly about the shoes about the people in great detail then in kravitz lubavitch page 213 we come across uh rabbi shalom bevershetsky of ashalam who taught tanya and he came to the fabric in the ancestral in brooklyn and this was i believe in 1956 or 57 but it says there that the president and some of the other members remember when the frida kara became and that's alluding to because the rabbit was in brownsville for uh rosh hashanah 1929 and it says there that he um and pristina was in borough park so he he came off it came i think september 12th the 13th and he we already had a clip about this and they went to ruby simpson's newly uh new house uh dushul on 14th avenue corner 46th street and it seems like at that time he also went to visit this anshi la bavid shul i understand there was a picture of it and there was a postcard that he wrote to the rebber during that visit which has since been confiscated and it's not available we don't have it but someone uh rabbi moishi raiport haravagoyan ravitz kripa's son was involved with this whole situation and doing a fantastic job told me that he actually saw the card he had the card and it was stolen from him getting back to the point that the laboratory community and the laboratories you see over there rabbi jacobs's documentation this was a very organized effort coming from on top the previous level wanted to know how many shows they are and who are the members and are they learning mishnays and they're learning gambhara and they're learning the khasi and when adifa branyan you test kiss live and and it goes on and on and therefore there are abundant the the rabbis of the besden that are dealing with this i hope that they have a chance to see this short clip and and understand that this is coming from myself who barack hashem you know this is a something i do the you know as a historian studying you know hasidic judaism in general particularly i'm telling you that this isn't just another show that a board legal or illegal can decide what to do with it with a shul this belongs to lavage first you need permission from the bavish once you have permission from the barbecue you can go on and uh to understand this again you need to really go through many many pages in in various um history books about lubavitch and chabad to understand the overall umbrella and the overall background for this shul angela babich on 12th avenue 44th street 41st street another point before rabbi ushba became rabbi rabbi simpson was there actually before he opened up his school in 1929 he was there i believe in 1928. so he was a talmud of the rebel shah but of course lords and praises because they believe he was anti-zionism and all that we're not going to go into that right now but he by them is holy holy holy okay well the rashab sent a robbie simpson to america and he was a rav in that show afterwards in the early night in 1954 55 i forget exactly which year rabbi ushbal became the rabbi the rav my russia shiva and he was a yid from coordinates from the lithuania i believe and he and he was a real above achiever his name giza dover is named after the son of the um of one of the sons of the semester and i knew him personally and i was very close to him he was like a father to me he used to you know pinch my back in my cheeks and put his hand around me was a very loving person i remember in 1976 or 77 when i we were in i was in his class he invited us for lockdown with his house he lived on 44th or 45th street between 12th and 13th avenue and he he made a southern slack blamer it was the first time that we saw colored eggs because of the rainbow that believers so this is the type of heat that you had and he lived several blocks away from the shul the my understanding is also that uh he had correspondence and notes that he took the entire time and he was very close to the rebel arabic label groener once said that the rebbe called rabbi ushbal a friend of his i mean it's very very close to the red because they worked together on the mary mclemis the references and citations to the maimonides of the previous of 1946 47 48 those years uh the the rebbe added a citations and insights and explanations and he had rabbi ushbal help with um with some of that as well and he was the love there for 30 30 35 years till he passed away the mid-1980s the balabata abhyasiv moscow and the yeast of goldberg both of whom i know hashem they're alive and well and they should live till mashiach both were board members there as lubavitchers so there's no question that brother ushbao and his people wanted it to stay alibaba so that itself needs to be looked at when did that take place why did it take place but that it was ancient and it belonged to lebanese with all the pro glory and pride there's no question about it afterwards after a bushmas passing rabbi yitzhak raipod harava going rabbits many others fought him was love there he was the rabbi there until they they asked them to leave for whatever reason and my understanding is it wasn't done in a pleasant way but i'm not going to go into that now outside of the em keeper that the kuda is that a third here's the third labacher so we have simpson ushpao and wrightport shlaisha pamim there's not even a question about it and therefore hashem should help that this huss of the ascetici may chuva let us really be honest with ourselves and do chuva and relinquish our desire to make money on a helicopter property this is simply a a money money issue and this has to stop yiddish kite and toyota transcends money and you don't make money on kadusha because anyone who makes money on kendusha it's it's a it's not good that's it let's not go further it's not good you're playing with fire don't play with fire we might allah ms find yourself other properties that you can make money on and leave this anshi labavich to be a shul with its facade it's so if you take a look at it look online you'll see such a beautiful interesting um you know it started to remember the 1920s and it was the first show in borough park at the time so there's a lot of history i'm sure if it went to court it would be become a landmark there's not even a question so the nostalgia's there the history's there the tears of eden of all kinds of eden are in the in the walls in that shule to knock down the walls you want to repair the walls repair them but to knock down the walls and to knock down the facade and to change the entire appearance and to make it into a condominium building with a shoe in the basement is simply disgusting wrong and outrageous and hashem should help that the rabbanim should look at the emmas and and and not you know pill pool and sick like this or like that which means them debate it in dialogue this way or that way but it's crystal clear that this belongs to lubavitch and it should remain ashool with its current facade and they should help we should be saying to bring this shul to yerushalayim together with other souls being hate of the yemen with the marximate to each and every year and have a great shabbos and a great um keeper on main viewing