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This Misnagid says welcome and so long in advance for your short stay.
I won’t chase you away nor encourage you extend your time in the CR.
I will relay an anecdote:
Members of the CR are aware that I have married again and moved to NY this year.
This month, this month an older brother was. niftar and I sat Shivah with minyanim in my new home.
Every shul Rabbi in town came to be Menachem Avel during the course of the week which was quite a zchus.
The Chabad shul Rabbi (who the new Mrs. Has known well for 20+ years and had a brocha under our Chupah) came on day 6. During our conversation he asked why I have yet to daven, even once, in his shul. I explained that when he removed the Melech HaMoshiach banners and pictures of the Rebbe from the Beis Knesset I would be happy to do so.
I have nothing against the Rebbe, he was a great tzaddik. I had the Zhus to meet him a few times including a private audience almost 50 years ago where I received a brocha leading to the birth of my b’chor; but davening with the portrait of any human hanging in the Beis Knesset smacks of idolatry to me.
The local Rabbi whispers to me that he’d like to remove the banners and picture and place them in the shul lobby but his funding source would dry up.
