After the report in Haredim 10: The yeshiva issued a "vigorous protest" about the attack

January 5, 2023   

Following the report in Haredim 10: The management of the 'Tomchei Temimim' yeshiva in 770 at the Chabad World Center 770 issued an unusual "vigorous protest" this evening (Thursday) against extremists from the Messianic faction who desecrated the Beit Midrash last night, tore up Hasidic books in disgrace - and attacked the yeshiva's leader, Rabbi Shmuel Avtsen, with eggs. "We have received news that people from above covered their faces and threw food and desecrated holy books, may God save them from a Talmud Torah lesson," the yeshiva management wrote in a letter that it hung in the large Beit Midrash. "We protest with all force," the administration added, noting: "We have no information at this time who did this, apparently it was not one of our students, and if it turns out, God forbid, that they were - then from now on they are simply expelled with all that this implies, and whoever did this will seek correction from rabbis, etc., and perhaps God will have mercy on him and be kind to him." The yeshiva administration concludes: "We remind our students not to pay attention to people who are not above us, not to learn from their actions, and not to fight with them because we have no connection with these actions, may God have mercy on them." [Gallery]

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As reported in Haredim 10, extremists from the Messianic faction attacked the preacher while he was giving a theoretical lesson on the topic of 'Messiah and Redemption', with the participation of yeshiva students and Chassidim residents of the Crown Heights neighborhood. The lesson is held weekly in the large Beit Midrash in the Chabad center, and is organized by the students of the 'Kavutsa' - Chabad yeshiva students from Israel, who come to study for a year at the yeshiva. Last night, in the midst of the lesson, a number of 'Messianic' extremists hid with the help of the women and threw eggs from there and insolently tore up Chassidic books that had "Z"A written in them after the name of the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l - while their friends blocked the exit from the Beit Midrash to the women's section, so that they could not stop the vandalism. Chabad expressed deep shock at the destruction of Hasidic books and the desecration of the Beit Midrash, and called on the rabbis of the Messianic faction to "condemn the heinous act." It should be noted that last week, extremists from the Messianic faction also interrupted the editor of the newspaper "Hambesar," the writer Rabbi Benjamin Lipkin, while he was delivering the weekly shiur.