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I lost all of mine. I will buy some from you. Did the Rebbe hand all of them to you personally?
Sell them to Ariel Sololovsky. Put him to the real test.
I'll take the burden off of you. :)
i'll give you fifty cents for each one
Save them to donate to the Bais Hamikdash
Sell them on ebay and donate the proceeds to a misnagdishe Yeshiva in an ecumenical gesture. ;-)
I am thinking of putting $1 on Ebay to determine it's market value. And yes all are the dollars I got personally from the Rebbe. They are after farbrenger dollars. I hated the Sunday's lines in the later years and tried to avoid them (still there might be 5 bills from Sunday's). There is also a $20 bill in the pile. I don't remember what it was and why it's in the pile.
i am wondering why do you want to get rid of them ?
why did you get them in the first place ?
and what happened in between ?
awaiting your response
thanks
donate them...as it was originnaly mean to be .
Why not return them to Leibel Groner ?
Leibel wasn't the one giving the dollars, even though it might have seemed at the time that he was the one controlling the process
Perhaps give them directly to Tzedakah, as they were originally intended. Or sell them to shmais for double or triple their value, and then do the same.
Why not keep them?
I'd be interested in buying them, but I'm also curious why you'd part with them?
Is the quarter part of the deal?
hame on you all!
Did you have these cynical thoughts as you stood in line to recieve the dollars???!!!
Over the years, I have given my dollars to our soldiers in Israel.
In fact, there is a very small Chitas
that soldiers can carry that has a place for the dollar.
This follows the precedent of the Rebbes who gave a coin etc to people in danger,
for protection.
Give them to charity. Or sell them to someone and give whatever you get to charity. When the Rebbe gave these dollars out it seems as if his intention was that they be given to charity, no?
Bet them on Kerry to win the election! It's a sure thing, "according to the Rebbe"!
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I am not sure why you all assumed I want to "part with the dollars". I asked "what to do with it"? There is a difference, no? I am certainly not "giving them away". The custom at the time was to give away the equivalent amount but to keep the bill.
And my suggestion is, that you take the dollars and buy a Sefer Reishes Chochma with it! That Sefer used to be considered a prerequisite to Chassidus. In Beis Rebbe it says that the Alter Rebbe instructed NOT to teach chassidus to anyone who did not learn the Sefer Raishes Chochma. In Sefer Migdal Oz it says that when the Tanya came out, the Alter Rebbe instructed that anyone who does not learn Sefer Reishes Chochma should NOT learn the Sefer HaTanya.
Once you buy this sefer, post parts of it on this blog. It is really pieces of ART from a past that isn’t seen in practice anymore.
If the readers of this Blog would learn this Sefer, there would be less of the “Krumkeit” found in some of the blogging responses you got. For example: in the comments at http://www.haloscan.com/comments...70926480431058/
Schneur wrote to me: “The craziness of many Lubavitcher Chasidim in regards to modernity and their quest to be seen as hip in no way negates the teachings of the Lubavitcher rebbes. In the time of the Marash and the Rashab, thousands of Chabad young people became maskilim and Zionists or worse. Did that negate Toras Chabad?”
Reading his postings, it seems that he equates the words of the Lubavitcher Rebbes and Toras Chabad as if it is one and the same, synonymous. Every word that a rebbe said becomes “Toras Chabad”. Is this true? Does Toras Chabad have to coincide with Toras Moshe or with someone who does not live according to Reshes Chachma, not using it as a prerequisite compromised Torahs Chabad while not necessarily negating it.
Having seen the words of Beis Rebbe and Migdol Oz mentioned above, it seems to me that if anyone encourage one to learn the prerequisites, even with the title of a Lubavitcher Rebbe, he is skipping the foundation on what Toras Chabad is built on, and, therefore, will not get the results that Toras Chabad is hoping to achieve. Needless to say that for the last 100 years, there were no prerequisites for anything labeled Toras Chabad. It is no wonder, therefore, that the results are not there. Schneur would have agreed with me that Oilam Hazidiga rebbes produce Oilam Hazidiga Chassidim.
Another example: Dov (Berl?) wrote to me in the comments at http://www.haloscan.com/comments...70926480431058/
: “I especially find it interesting that someone who talks so much about kedusha vetahara and not being affected by chochmos chitzoniyus, brings an example from avoda zoroh gemura – something that is ossur al pi halacha (and, interestingly, a zehirus that was pointed out more than once by the Lubavitcher Rebbe)”
I am not so well versed on that “zehirus” that was pointed out more than once by your Rebbe, according to Dov, I would appreciate if he or someone else would post on this blog the quote and verse from the teachings of Mamush of what is wrong to cite an example from Mesechtes Avoda Zara. If I find that your sources is correct, that would lead me to update my opinion on Lubavitch, that according to the Mamush: Talmud Bavli is not an Issur Gavra for today’s Lubavitchers -- that some Mesechtos has an issue Issur Cheftza added to it…
I just wonder if Mesechtes Avodah Zara is as assur As chachmas chitzonius or worse – it seems to me that Lubavitchers are more careful not to have dealings with Mesechtes Avoda zara than with the actual avodah zara. (By the way, some people say that the Pyramid and Eye on those dollar bills given out every Sunday was rooted in an ancient Avodah Zarah: Ball Tz’foin)
I agree with the suggestion of putting them in tzedaka which they were originally given for. You could also add some more money to account for inflation. (I recently started a blog that I update rather infrequently. For all those interested, jewishmuses.blogspot.com.
Tzemach: Note - my comment above did not assume that you should part with the dollars.
But who said that you have to "do anything" with them?
Make them into mezzuzahs. Then give the mezzuzahs to tzedakah. Two mitzvot in one.
I also haved one stashed away. It's probably from about the same time period(1983). I hope to pass it on to my progeny after 120!
I thought the Rebbe didn't start giving out dollars until after 11 Nissan 5746.
Adam, you might be right. I was doubting myself when I read the bill. I can't even tell for sure the date I wrote myself. It was not clear and at a fold.
The Rebbe did give out dollars before then, thorugh the Tankisten and by Yechidus Kloliyus
I also heard that the purpose of these was to give them to tzedakka. If you spend them in various Jewish stores, then likely, they will circulate into the hands of many yiddim and maybe the schus of holding a dollar given by the Rebbe can spread to many more people.
Not that we are supposed to impute any spiritual powers to a physical object, chos v'sholom, but older chassidim used to jump to wipe tears of a previous rebbe on their face from a cloth that the rebbe cried into. So I suppose the best answer is to figure that one out yourself.
I would keep the dollars as a treasured collection, and then I would make sure that however much is in there, in place of the Rebbe dollars, I would give that much to tzedakka, that way his will is fulfilled.
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