1 CROWN HEIGHTS NewsPAPER ~August 1, 2008 כאן צוה ה’ את הברכה CommunityNewspaper פרשת מסעי | כט' תמוז , תשס”ח | בס”ד WEEKLY VOL. I | NO 37 AUGUST 1, 2008 | TaMMUZ 29, 5768 Horav Hachossid Hatomim Reb Noson Gurary Rabbi Harlig ~ The Rebbe's Story Page 4-5 Page 16 WHAT TO DO WITH THE REBBE’S BUTTONS? PAGE 2 KNOW YOUR TRIGGERS. CHK, Chavrei Beis Din Crown Heights with Shochtim and Mashgichim in PAGE 13 Uruguai Beis Din of Crown Heights 390A Kingston Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Tel- 718~604~8000 Fax: 718~771~6000 Rabbi A. Osdoba: ❖ Monday to Thursday 10:30AM - 11:30AM at 390A Kingston Ave. ☎Tel. 718-604-8000 ext.37 or 718-604-0770 Sunday-Thursday 9:30 PM-11:00PM ~Friday 2:30PM-4:30 PM ☎Tel. (718) - 771-8737 Rabbi Y. Heller is available daily 10:30 to 11:30am ~ 2:00pm to 3:00pm at 788 Eastern Parkway # 210 718~604~8827 ❖ & after 8:00pm 718~756~4632 Rabbi Y. Schwei, 4:00pm to 9:00pm ❖ 718~604~8000 ext 36 Rabbi Y. Raitport is available by appointment. ☎ 718~604~8000 ext 39 ☎ Rabbi Y. Zirkind: 718~604~8000 ext 39 Erev Shabbos Motzei Shabbos Rabbi S. Segal: ☎ 718~604~8000 ext 39 ❖ Sun ~Thu 5:30pm -9:00pm or ☎718 -360-7110 Rabbi Bluming is available Sunday - Thursday, 3 -4:00pm at 472 Malebone St. ☎ 718 - 778-1679 Rabbi Y. Osdoba ☎718~604~8000 ext 38 ❖ Sun~Thu: 10:0am -11:30am ~ Fri 10:am - 1:00 pm or 7:53 8:55 ☎ 718 -604-0770 Gut Shabbos Rabbi S. Chirik: ☎ 718~604~8000 ext 38 ❖ Sun~Thu: 5:00pm to 9:00pm 2 CROWN HEIGHTS NewsPAPER ~August 1, 2008 The Vaad Hakohol The Laws of Responding Amen In the Absence of Rabbi Segal we are reprinting an article from Chabad,org. Letters unnecessary blessing. For example, By Eliezer Wenger if one washed for a meal and then Reb Zalman Deitsch says a blessing on the vegetable When: salad (during a meal one does not I read with a special interest the article about Reb • One should respond Amen whenever say a blessing on the various other Zalman Deitsch and enjoyed it very much. I want he hears another saying a blessing, foods, as it is included in the blessing to add two additional facts. even if the blessing does not contain of bread), that second blessing is The shliach that RebZ alman installed and funded G-d's name, such as the "May the considered an unnecessary blessing in Mass. was Reb Yisroel Deren. Merciful One be blessed..." in the and no response of Amen is said Grace After Meals Reb Zalman was instrumental in acquiring the • Amen is said to a blessing that a building in which the Yeshiva exists. • In order to answer Amen, one may child says for something which he either hear the complete blessing, needs to say a blessing on such as Hatzlacha Rabo! the ending of the blessing, or at least over food before eating. However, E.Y.Y. know to which blessing one is answer- if the child is saying a blessing as ing Amen to. If he does not hear the part of his learning routine, such blessing at all and does not know to as when practicing reading, Amen which blessing he will be responding, is not to be said he does not answer Amen • If someone says a blessing, but • It is appropriate to answer after changes the text as instituted by Our Heroes hearing G-d's name in a blessing, the Rabbis, one does not answer "blessed is He and blessed is His Amen I read your newspaper on a weekly basis and enjoy Name" (Boruch hu uvaruch Shemo). it immensely, especially the Heroes column. This • One may answer Amen to a bless- However, since this is only a custom gives us pride and strength when we learn about our ing said by a non-Jew, if he hears the and not an institution of the Rabbis, ancestors who lived in Crown Heights and about complete blessing from beginning one may not say it during prayers at their accomplishments. to end. If the non-Jew is a believer points where one may not interrupt, in idolatry, Amen is not said I share the article with my children at the Shabbos such as during the "praises" (Pesukei Table, every week. It generates a special pride in dezimrah), even though he would be • Whoever forces himself to be the personality of our children. permitted to interrupt for Amen a cantor against the will of the congregation, is not entitled to have Keep up the good work! • One is permitted to answer Amen Amen answered to his blessing (that to any blessing that he hears through C.D. he says as the cantor) a microphone or live hookup Crown Heights During Prayers • One should answer the Amen immediately after the blessing is • One should concentrate well completed. One should not answer when answering the "Amen Yehei a "Hurried Amen," that is an Amen Shmei Rabbah..." in Kaddish, for Reb Getzel Rubashkin which is said before the blessing is those who answer "Amen Yehei even completed. Nor a "orphaned Shmei..." with the fullest power of I have read R’ Moshe’s Rubashkin’s article about his grandfather, Reb Getzel Amen," that is an Amen which was concentration will even have their Rubashkin. said a while after the blessing was decree of seventy years torn up I grew up in Crown Heights and wish to share some memories about Reb completed. (Alter Rebbe's Shulchan and given more years of life. Also, Getzel. Aruch O.C. 124:1) this should be said in a loud (not yelling or shouting) voice, for this I remember Reb Getzel from Camp Gan Israel in Swan Lake, NY in the early When Not: too achieves the removal of all evil 1960’s. His wife Rosa and their mehcutanista, Mrs. Doba Raskin, were the • It one completes his own blessing decrees11. The text: cooks in the camp. The camp had hundreds of campers and the two ladies would at the same time that another person come out to the dining room where the campers were eating, to check if there Transliteration: Amein. Y'hay finishes his blessing, one does not was enough food and if the campers were satisfied. RebG etzel would have his sh'may raba m'vorach l'olam answer Amen on the other's blessing, morning job, checking the eggs that were being prepared for breakfast. ul'ol'may ol'ma-yuh yis-buh- for it appears as if he is saying Amen raych. Reb Getzel was a quiet and aidel person and was very considerate and to his own blessing friendly. Translation: May His great • One should not answer Amen to an name be blessed forever and for all It is told that when Reb Getzel saw that the Rebbe did not have such a spec- eternity. tacular megila, Reb Getzel bought a megila for the Rebbe. When Reb Getzel saw that his personal megilla case was nicer than the Rebbe’s case, it was not • One who ends the last blessing appropriate for him to use a nicer case then the Rebbe’s. He bought a very Newspaper before the morning Amidah prayer, Community expensive and beautiful case for the Rebbe "Go'al Yisroel," together with the 392 Kingston Avenue quorum, does not answer Amen. Reb Getzel would assist with the food preparations for the bochurim in Brooklyn, NY 11225 the kitchen of 1414 President Street. He was beloved by anyone who knew • In the prayers there are certain Published & edited weekly by the Vaad Hakohol him. of Crown Heights. exceptions to this rule (that one finishes the same blessing together I remember that at the Shabbos and Yom Tov Farbrengens, Reb Getzel stood Moshe Rubashkin, Rosh Hakohol Dr. Tzvi (Harvey) Lang, Chairman with another, does not respond on his feet like a soldier for many hours, near us bochurim, until his seventies. Rabbi Plotkin, Secretary Amen), such as the blessing of He would not sit down at the Farbrengen at all. Layout: SimplyUnique ([email protected]) "May Your name be praised..." If I remember well, the Rebbe once motioned to Reb Getzel to come up and All material in this paper has been copyrighted. It (Yishtabach). If the person saying is the exclusive property of this newspaper, unless sit on the bima behind the Rebbe, together with the older chassidim. This is Yishtabach ends at the same time otherwise attributed., and cannot be reproduced when Reb Getzel accepted the offer and sat down. without the consent of the publisher. as the cantor, he should answer Composition responsibility: This newspaper will not Amen Let our fond memories about Reb Getzel always remain with us and guide be liable for errors appearing in advertising, beyond us in our lives! the cost of the space occupied by the error. Advertiser • If however, he finishes a blessing assumes responsibility for errors in telephone orders. S.M. All advertisement designed and prepared by the at the same time as the cantor, but the blessings are different ones, then CHCommunity Newspaper are the property of the Crown Heights newspaper and cannot be reproduced without the he responds Amen to the cantor's consent of the publisher blessing August 1, 2008 ~ crOWN heights NewsPAPER 3 The Rebbe's Sicha Parshas Massei 5744 “The concept represented by “Maa- an encampment after every journey, leave the desert wilderness which is full standing outside Eretz Yisrael, he should sei” helps a Jew avoid falling into why does Scripture say “These are the of snakes and scorpions and without turn his face toward Eretz Yisrael ..