Gimmel Tammuz 5785 saw the most organized and efficient crowd management to date, far surpassing all expectations. According to data gathered by the command center, some 200,000 people passed through the Ohel from Friday until Monday morning. A timelapse video captured the crowds.
Gimmel Tammuz 5785 saw the most organized and efficient crowd management to date, far surpassing all expectations.
The groundbreaking operational plan—approved by the heads of Agudas Chassidei Chabad, Rabbi Avraham Shemtov and Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky—was overseen by the local Shliach, Rabbi Aba Refson, and directed by R’ Mendy Kulski. The new system brought a level of order and efficiency never before seen, allowing tens of thousands of men, women, and children to visit the Rebbe’s Ohel throughout the Hilula day.
In rare footage captured by photographer Boruch Gudlevsky, a ladder was placed outside the Ohel structure, from where he documented one hour of the 24-hour, non-stop influx. In the video, one can see the line for men winding down, as security ushers open the women’s entrance. A few minutes later, the women exit and a new wave of men enters in turn.
The Rebbe’s Ohel is the most visited Jewish site in the world, drawing close to a million visitors a year. The site remains open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
According to data gathered by the command center, some 200,000 people passed through the Ohel from Friday until Monday morning. The massive crowds moved in an impressively orderly fashion, despite the intense New York heat.
The footage shows the entry line, the swift passage past the tziyun of the Rebbe and the Frierdiker Rebbe, the placing of the panim atop the steadily growing pile, and the exit through the new door carved into the northern wall of the Ohel.
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200,000 visitors over 3 Tammuz is very impressive, and there’s no need to makes things up.
“The Rebbe’s Ohel is the most visited Jewish site in the world, drawing close to a million visitors a year”
It happens to be that the Kosel is by all metrics the most visited, with over 10 million annually.
Our self esteem as Chassidim, the “status” of the Rebbe, and even Lubavitch’s global reach, isn’t hinged on these kinds of statistics, on contrary, it comes across as petty, insecure, or at best, ignorant and irresponsible.
Does that equal 60 people per minute? Wow that’s fast. I wish it was moving that fast when I was standing in line. Maybe correct maybe not but there were a lot of people
No, if you make the calculation it’s about 2-3 people EVERY SECOND!!
So Yes! The number is made up….
Kudos for anash.org for not publisizing like other ‘chabad’ sites the other half of the video, with the woman going by, which was not ok, woman line right behind the men, with them having to squeeze by the male guards, a halachik solution is very easy to arrange, with a little foresight!
I think they meant to write most visited in America
“some 200,000 people passed through the Ohel from Friday until Monday morning”
That’s over 48 hours not including Shabbos.
According to you, that’s over 138 people per minute on average. I see from footage approximately 40 people per minute maximum.
Read what it says!
Why do you have to show the video in time lapse speed? just put it on a regular speed that it should look more respectable.
Then you would have to spend a couple of viewing this.
Why can they not have Lubavitchers in the Ohel moving people along (instead of others on their phones etc.) just like by the Rebbe (in 770) when there where (respectable) chassidim standing in front of the Rebbe (with proper attire, hat, kapote, gartel…), if there can’t be such learned and chassidishe Yidden as back then, I’m sure the bochurim would step up to the plate (as always).
May we very soon no longer have the Ohel. Moshiach Now!