Thousands of men, women and children gathered on the Parkway in front of 770 for a Mega Hakhel event and grand Simchas Beis Hashoeva.
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Thousands of men, women and children gathered on the Parkway in front of 770 for a Mega Hakhel event and grand Simchas Beis Hashoeva.
Organized by Tzivos Hashem, and in conjunction with Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch and the schools and Shuls of Crown Heights, the event draws thousands from across the Metropolitan area.
“There are many Mitzvos that were able to be done in the times of the Beis Hamikdash that we can no longer do today. Instead, through learning about those Mitzvos, we are able to fulfill them in some way,” says Rabbi Shimmy Weinbaum, Director of Chayolei Tzivos Hashem, and one of the Mega Hakel organizers. “The Mitzvah of Hakhel is unique in that, though we do not have the Beis Hamikdash, and cannot reenact how Hakhel was celebrated, we can still perform the Mitzvah almost in its entirety. By joining together, men, women and children, and increasing in our Yiras Shamayim, we are able to accomplish what the Yidden set out to do in the times of the Beis Hamikdash”.
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