Update : 5/20/2012 Tickets for Arthur Ash are only being sold in lakewood at the ichud office ,in brooklyn at the ichud ofice on 13th ave.
Update: 5/17/12 organizers are finalizing plans for another venue to accommodate more seating for the many that want to join. for info click here and here.
Mishpacha magazine article about Asifa here.
Update : 5/16/12 Misaskim issues security message regarding Asifa at Citi Field Here.
Update: 5/16 the ichud is working feverishly to find more seating for the sold out event. There might be a tent in the adjacent parking lot. For updated Asifa information call 732-551-3351 after 4 pm today. Rav Aaron Schiff from belgium will attend the Asifa with his kehilah. No word yet on any litvisher RY attending from outside the US.
update: 5/15/12 Organizers are looking into possibility of added seating in the parking lot or renting out a nearby stadium. Rachmastrivka rebbe from EY said to attened the asifa. Admor Pshevorsk from belgium will iyh attend as well.
The event is sold out, you can try calling the office and get on a waiting list here. There will be live hook ups for men in all out of town cities. To setup a hook up in your area call 732 300 4382. The tri state area will only have hook ups for women, not for men as they want all who have tickets to physicaly come to the stadium. The expo part of the asifa has been cancelled in order to accommodate the many attendees that have no internet, in addition the focus has been shifted to more of a yom tefillah and prayer rally. There will be various technology expos held in individual communities following the Asifa. The program will start with mincha at 6:30. Each attendee will receive a set of binoculars regardless of where they sit, along with a bag of refreshments and a drink. The speakers will be a mix of yiddish and english, there will be a live translation of the speech on the screens. The full schedule and list of speakers has not been made public.
http://somehowfrum.blogspot.com/2012/05/e-asifa-expo-education-eliminated.html
ReplyDeleteI don't understand. If some attendes don't have internet, they can simply come later. Why cancel the Expo? Furthermore, they may need internet at some time in the future and then the filter info will be necessary.
if someone doesn't have internet why are they going to this?
DeleteIf this is true they should be deeply embarrassed. The whole event serves absolutely no purpose and is a colossal waste of money. For a yom tefila they could have made events in each town or waited two months for the siyum hashas.
ReplyDeleteIt was obviously very poorly thought out and terribly excecuted. It's a Nes that they sold out (if they really did)
They didn't sell out they are selling everywhere and if you call the office they will call you back with a ticket there not selling out for beans
ReplyDeletePlease see the letter from Yankie Mandelbaum on the lakewoodview.com.
ReplyDeleteThis must mean that R.Shmuel has finally agreed to allow what he has been saying privately for a few weeks be made known.
http://thelakewoodview.com/local-news/prominent-yeshiva-in-lakewood-speaks-out-against-the-citfield-asifa-with-the-backing-of-the-gedolei-hador/
ReplyDeleteWill the translations go from Yiddish to English as well?
ReplyDeletethose who speak yiddish understand english. Not all who speak English understand yiddish.
ReplyDeleteMany Litvisher RY are not sending their yeshivos.Passaic, Philadelphia, Zichron melech. Rav Chaim kanievsky was unaware that some American gedolim did not back the Asifa.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand your comment. Anon 2:29.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, how could you say that RCK was unaware of something?
Second of all, are you implying that he wouldn't have supported the Asifa had he known that?
Why on earth can you not say that R.Chaim was unaware of something? You do realize that he doesn't know every fact and occurrence in the entire world at every moment.
ReplyDeleteAs do all gedolim, he answers questions based on the information provided to him. In this case, several Rosh Yeshivas felt that the Mashgiach had asked him the question in a certain, perhaps biased way. They therefore sent people to ask him themselves and to relay that they had not been consulted about the citifield event and did not support it. That's all.
Is Reb Chiam comeing at the end
ReplyDeleteRav Chaim is not coming. many Admorim will be attending though from EY. the Rachmastrivk Rebbe the pshevorsk Rebbe from antwerp, Rav padawa from England.
ReplyDeleteRav Chaim Kanievsky wrote a letter to the Asifa attendees.
ReplyDeleteReb Chiam doesn't know what Internet is
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