mitzvah-in-the-street Photo

Photographer’s Note

For countless people, the mitzvah in-the-street was the first step on the road to an intensified identification with Jewishness.

When came the Rebbe’s “Mitzvah campaigns,” Lubavitch literally took to the streets.
“Did you put on tefillin today?”
“Can I offer you Shabbat candles?”
“Can I interest you in some classes on Judaism?”

On Wall Street in New York, in London’s Picadilly Circus, and in Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Square, Jewish pride and Jewish precepts came out of the closet forever.

The effect? One word sums it up. Revolution. An ever-burgeoning renaissance of belief and resurgence of interest in the traditions of Judaism. For countless individuals and families, that mitzvah in-the-street was the first step on the road to an intensified identification with Jewishness, with Jewish education and Jewish observance.

To name a few.

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ninaL (19689) 2009-09-03 8:11

Tutaj sytuacja nie jest tak klarowna, przejrzysta i mocna jak we wczorajszym zdjeciu, ale ten golab nad kapeluszem robi tutaj cala robote :).
Gdy zobaczylam miniaturke, pomyslalam w pierwszej chwili, ze wiatr uniosl mu kapelusz !!! ;))).
Lubie miekkosc twojego aparatu.
Tutaj moze jest lekki brak ostrosci, ale to wczorajsze mnie swoja miekkoscia prawdziwa bardzo ruszylo.

Zmienilabym moze aparat, ale...jade po raz pierwszy tak naprawde "zagranice" (Lisbona) za pare tygodni, wiec kasa sie nadwyrezy ;))).

Wyobraz sobie, ze to troche dzieki tobie, ta eskapada...
Twoj komentarz pod zdjeciem "L'indépedant", ze troche lisbonska atmosfera ;))). A potem potwierdzenie Buja, a nastepnie moja ostatnia fotka z portugalskimi robotnikami podajacymi sobie zapalniczke...Marzy mi sie ta Lisbona od lat, ale potrzebny byl jakis "zapalnik", azebym sie zdecydowala i zrobila rezerwacje po uprzedniej, parogodzinnej podrozy internetowej po tym miescie...

Pozdro i dzieki za zapalnik ;)))

bostankorkulugu (34562) 2009-09-03 9:33

looking at this shot i am trying to imagine the streets of kazimierz before the war... like i did a lot when i was in krakow, walking the streets with eyses shot, trying to imagine, trying to hear and smell the past at the jewish district... i guess they had mitzvah in-the-street there in kazimierz then, right?... i have many jewish friends here in istanbul, but i didnt know about this tradition...

hey, wouldnt you ever think of coming to istanbul to shoot the lives of the jews here?... could be an interesting experience...

a good documentary agnieszka... if only there was a white dove too ;)... bw... korkut