A man arrived at Chabad World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights on the first day of Chol Hamoed Sukkos, and claimed to be the messiah.
The man, of African American descent, climbed on top of a concrete barricade, and made his announcement.
When people threatened to call the police, the man responded “I’m not disturbing the peace. I’m just announcing that I’m the Messiah….”
See the video below:
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Finally messiah arrived!
How did they know he wasn’t telling the truth?
Get in line, pal.
Wow, Kiddush Lubavitch. And here I thought it was the Rebbe all this time.
The Messiah would be wearing a head covering and tzitzis, and wouldn’t need a cell phone.
Jersey jew because hes holding a smartphone
Please post updates. This is so exciting!
He is not the Messiah yet.
But we can try to work on it, by dancing around him while singing Yechi Hamelech, and putting his pictures on our Yamulkas and our yellow flags. Who knows? We just have to believe.
@ rightwriter
Hahahahaha!!!!
maybe he is right
Not the first guy to make such claims at 770.
We know that the Alter Rebbe said that Moshiach will not be a Chosid, rather a Veltliche, but he meant like a Misnaged, not an Eino Yehudi.
yechi hamelech
Talk about bad planning.
He’d have a better chance convincing people he was white. Couldn’t benefited from just a little research.
*could’ve
The rebbe never claimed to be anything
The Chofetz chaim ztl was given the sefer tzaafnat paneach. The author of this sefer is Harav Yosef Rosen (The Rogatchover gaon). After looking at a few pages the chofetz chaim looked at the cover and exclaimed “Tzaafnat paneach!? Adrabah, Yosef Razin!!”
It’s pretty obvious that this guy is mentally deranged, what we all should be asking ourselves, why in heavens name would YWN lower itself and make a headline about what a drug addicted mentally insane animal had to say.
Of course we all know why, because it happened at 770.
Shame on you Yeshiva world, you really hit the bottom with this one
Why is this a news item?
Many dumb comments. The guy doesn’t seem deranged. He’s talking video of himself. Someone obviously put him up to this and he’s talking video so he can show it off to his friends.
It’s pretty obvious that this guy is mentally deranged, what we all should be asking ourselves, why in heavens name would YWN lower itself and make a headline about what a drug addicted mentally insane hoodlum had to say.
Of course we all know why, because it happened at 770.and it will give the LEITZIM a chance to poke fun at Lubavich
Shame on you Yeshiva world, you really hit the bottom with this one
There was a man there for many years claiming to be the messiah his first name was Menachem Mendel.
Who says Moshiach does not have a cell phone? She calls me all the time.
Really YW?
People much more crazy and interesting than this crackpot show up to 770 on a daily basis, and you chose this to report?
Hand him a lulav. Ask him if he knows what to do with it. Pay attention to his answer (his na’ah’nooim may be a learning experience for all of us)
Imagine if anyone would insult (in a not-so-veiled way) YOUR leaders: you know, the ones who insisted Yeshivas and other institutions should stay open at the height of Covid. And you all “veyned” when some of these helige Gedolim died.
But Chabadnikim, and the Rebbe specifically, are fair game. Two weeks since you klopped al Chait. My, how time flies.
Vote for Eric Adams and you can have this every week.
There have been other mentally ill people who says they’re the Messiah. He’s not the first. Anyway, he’s not very convincing, doesn’t look like a Messiah.