More than 1000 Lubavitch Chassidim and Bochurim, young Yeshivah students, walked for hours on Shvi-i Shel Pesach in the traditional Tahaluchos/Marches to Shuls in the New York Metropolitan area.
Many of the participants in the marches were guests from all over the world who came here for Pesach.
They walked, up to 3 hours each way, from Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights to Shuls in Bronx, (3 hours) Boro Park, Flatbush, Brighton Beach, Bensonhurst, Sheepshead Bay, Canarsie, Sea Gate, (2.5 hours) Howard Beach, Queens (3 hours) and Manhattan.
The marchers shared the Rebbe’s inspirational messages for Pesach that each person is obligated to experience their own “Yetzias Mitzrayim” – going out of Egypt, as “Mitzrayim” stands for “Boundaries and limitations” of all kinds, which each person can experience on all levels.
“There is a great merit in participating in the Tahaluchos about which the Rebbe said, ‘This matter is my own’ and upon another occasion stated, ‘I envy all those who went [on the Tahalucha]’ and the Rebbe himself would walk out of his room and escort the marchers from the entrance of 770,” said Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Director of Lubavitch Youth Organization, which organizes the marches
“This was indeed a great and cherished moment when the ‘Commander in Chief’ left his room to personally ‘see off his troops’ and these dedicated soldiers who went on the Tahaluchos this Pesach are continuing the work of the Rebbe,” stressed Rabbi Butman.
The Lubavitch Youth Organization, Tzeirei Agudas Chabad Hamerkozis
continues and expands these efforts. Indeed new Shuls were added to the Tahalucha. This Pesach close to 200 Shuls in the New York Metropolitan area were visited.
The activity was organized by Rabbi Yossi Butman, Project Director of the Lubavitch Youth Organization. “We are assured, as the Rebbe once expressed: ‘Going to a distant location in order to assist Jews in rejoicing in the joy of the Festivals of Joy, acts to hasten the day when ‘His feet shall stand on that day on the Mount of Olives’,” he said.
The events were coordinated by Rabbi Yosef Goldwasser and Avrohom Raichik who did their work with great devotion, dedication and commitment.
The Tahaluchos-Marches have become part of Jewish life in the New York Metropolitan area. Before Yom Tov many Rabbis also called the offices of the Lubavitch Youth Organization, or sent emails, to make sure that Chabad Lubavitch representatives should come to their Shuls to help them celebrate the Yom Tov of Freedom.
In many shuls, people held the speakers back from going home after the Maariv, in order to have their questions answered on the Message of the Rebbe to make that sure they understood it adequately.
The entire Tahaluchos-Marches project was conducted with the specific coordination with the New York City Police Department. “It was a pleasure to work with them,” said Rabbi Yossi Butman, “They exhibited extraordinary sensitivity and efficiency and we are looking forward to work with the NYPD in the future.”
Tremendous Kiddush Hashem and a beautiful Kiddush
Lubavitch!!
Yasher Koach to Rabbi’s Goldwasser, Raichik,
And Rabbi Bitman!!