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More than a hundred Chassidim packed the modest apartment of the Bostoner Rebbe Shlita in Har Nof, Jerusalem for the Friday night tisch of Parshas Chaye Sorah, all there to welcome the Rebbe home after his successful trip to America. The Rebbe left his home and Chassidic Center to spend over two weeks visiting and giving chizuk to communities throughout the eastern seaboard of the United states. The Rebbe interspersed his incomparable Bostoner zemiros and his own inimitable style of Torah with stories about all the places he visited. But as he said well after 1am and just before bentching, there is nothing like being surrounded by my own Chassidim. All those there knew they were in the right place at the right time.
I was once privileged to eat a shabbos meal at the same table as the Rebbe. He truly is a great person, I will attest to that and I’m not a chosid in any form.
Burnt steak
You mean his father zatzal or present Rebbe?
B’H his saintly Father ZT’L gave his Tisches in English, so B’H he was Zoche to inspire & impress many people all leTovo.
This an addition to the wonderful Benedictions he would bestow upon us @Havdolo time.
WIY, the one in Har Nof currently.
Boston chassidus is a shtikle baalei teshuvaish?
har nof is not in boston. HTH
No, but the Bostoner is in Har Nof.
Bostoner chassidus seems to be attractive to newcomers; an article about the Bostoner community in Highland Park said that a baal teshuva medical doctor was responsible for bringing the shtieble there, and I know quite a few BT’s and one couple where the husband (like me) was a patrilineal non-Orthodox who made teshuva/was migayer, and married another convert who had a kesher with the Bostoner rebbe.
There is actually 3. One in Boston, one in Har Nof, and one in New York.
Who took over their father?
It was split three ways among the three sons. There are now three Bostoner Rebbes — one in Boston, one in Har Nof, and one in NY.
Which one is the most like the father?
Popa::: good to hear from you!!!!
Obviously the one in boston is the real one. HTH
Popa
Welcome back lol.
Has anyone here ever been a rebbe? What is the easiest way to become one. And please don’t say to go to the sorbonne or something stupid like that.
How to become a rebbe? Wear the right hat, name yourself after the shtetl in the alte heim your alte zeide came from, and say the right things.
PBA: I was a Rebbe for a while. That was an interesting time.
Sam
You had chassidim?
Just take your address and add Rebbe at the end. I’m the 30 Hartford St. Rebbe.
WIY: Long story short, there were a group of people becoming Ba’alei T’shuvah through a Chabad guy. Then the guy couldn’t deal with them anymore (I don’t need to reference the personal details of their life), but one of the basic things they “knew” about Judaism was that you need a Rebbe to guide you through life. So, through a ridiculous amount of what I can’t call anything other than Hashgacha, I became their “Rebbe” for a little while until they (one by one) found someone more suitable.
You made farbrengins or tischin?
WIY: It’s actually funny, some of them were disappointed (and confused) that we didn’t have the same type of farbrengens that their Chabad Rabbi had. But we did have times where we would get together and learn things of a more… mystical nature. I was far more Halachically oriented than their first Rabbi though, that’s for sure. Anyway, it’s a great story for me but I don’t really tell it. To this day it terrifies me that maybe it’s my fault that some of them who didn’t finish becoming Frum might have actually become Frum if I had done things differently. Trust me, it’s not fun being a Rebbe.
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