TOUR CHASSIDIC COMMUNITIES
Since 1982 we offer Jewish Tours through our Chassidic neighborhoods to anyone who wishes to learn more about Jewish or Chassidic life. We either walk by or walk inside of many hidden gems to see and learn about Judaism and Chassidism in history and in practice. Join our adventure through a community….
TOUR CHASSIDIC COMMUNITIES
Since 1982 we offer Jewish Tours through our Chassidic neighborhoods to anyone who wishes to learn more about Jewish or Chassidic life. We either walk by or walk inside of many hidden gems to see and learn about Judaism and Chassidism in history and in practice. Join our adventure through a community….
Rabbi Epstein turned what began as classes into tours of the community in 1982 so visitors can experience the community through the eyes of a local.
All our guides grew up exposed to all sects of Judaism including multiple chassidic, yeshivish, and orthodox groups providing a wide breath of knowledge on all of Jewish life.
Many of our locations take you behind closed doors (at guides discretion) to gain an insider's view into Judaism, Jewish, Chassidic, and Chabad life. Our tours don't just walk by we walk inside and gain a deeper understanding of the practices, customs, and traditions while answering all your questions you were afraid to ask.
Spent a weekend in the city and this tour was, hands down, the highlight of my trip.
Chaya, our guide was friendly, accommodating, and knowledgeable. She second-to-none knowledge of Crown Heights and the history of its Chabad community.
Cannot recommend this tour enough!
great tour to kill some of our pre-conceived idea…. Sometimes I wondered if we were still in NYC ! One of the many aspects of New York !
Led by Rabbi Epstein this tour gives you a different look on NY. The tour started with the four of us on the tour telling the Rabbi about ourselves and why we were there. He then told us about the work of Lubavitcher. This was followed by a visit to a very busy synagogue. There seemed to be 100s of men there, with smaller groups at different parts of morning prayers. Many were putting in and taking off teffilin. Some were studying. We then moved on to Lubavitcher headquarters and saw the central control room where communities are contacted around the world. Our tour ended with a good kosher lunch.
Thanks, a Rabbi, for an extraordinary insight.
Excellent Tour ! Great guide Chaya ! Very patient, she took all the time needed to answer all questions !
Strongly recommend it !
That was great. Our guide Chaya was super friendly and obviously enjoys her job, making the tour a really pleasant experience.
I had really wanted to take this tour since a long time ago and finally did it and everything was as good as I expected! I highly recommend this tour if you want to immerse into an authentic Jewish neighborhood and learn a lot about their culture and religion. Chaya (the guide and daughter of a Rabbi) will take care of answering all your questions, you will visit different places, from kosher grocery stores to the head quarters of the Jabad-Lubavitch community. It’s a totally worth it experience!
Can you imagine a tour that can change your life? Well this tour can. Bar none, the best tour I have ever taken! Rabbi Beryl shared some information that changed my life. He “brings home” why some of the Jewish observances are so important. The tour gave so many of our observances MEANING. I learned so much!It’s a great tour, seeing the scribes, the mikvah, and the matzoh factory — but the heart and soul of the tour is Rabbi Beryl and his unique way of teaching. He makes everyone feel welcome and part of the tour — not just an observer. I can’t image anyone, Jewish or otherwise, not learning so much about the heart of Jewish New York from this tour. Enjoy, it may change your life — It did mine!
Fabulous tour, Chaya shares her knowledge with patience and passion.
Thank you, truly a great experience!
This was a Divine Appointment tour. I set out on my mission to L.A. But I did not have the money for the trip. I had two jobs to do. The first to tell all Jews I met in divine appointments that it is time to return to Israel because something heavy is going down in the West and YHVH said “Wherever you are at the ends of the heavens or at the ends of the earth, I will bring you back!”. The second was to check how my book Songs of Messiah was doing in the LA book fair. When I recieved enough money to fly to New York from London I did that. I told my cousin in Brooklyn to drop me at the nearest Jewish community. I ended up outside the Jewish Childrens Museum and saw a sign saying “Welcome Moshiach” or something like that. I went to the shop with the sign and they sent me down to the BASEMENT. There there was a Rabbi (a certain Rabbi Epstein) standing and he asked me if I had come for the tour. I said “Is there a tour?” I said “I came to see what we goyim can do to help in the Welcome Messiah Campaign”. He was busy with the tour and so handed me over to a couple of other Rabbis who gave me the Seven Laws of Noah which I know. I decided “I must go on the tour.” In Greek terms “It was my destiny”. And what a great decision it was! One of the first things Rabbi Epstein said was “This is the biggest Jewish community outside of Israel in the world”! Perfect more than any people these need to let YHVH transplant them to Israel! The insights I was given to the Chasidic way of life and the clear boundaries of who and who is not a Jew was amazing(Although I still dont know why they can’t do all that in Israel). I have studied a little Judaism in Israel, with this Rabbi and that but in this tour I was given some very precious insights and learned things I never knew before. One very important insight I recieved confirmed my understanding that the Torah is a system set up by YHVH which if obeyed will bring protection and blessing on the obedient. I knew this already from the tithe and from my Christian background. We believe before one letter can be removed from the Torah, the sun will disappear first. But the Rabbi’s explanation of the Mezuzah took me to a new level of understanding! Then he gave me advice about getting a cheap airline ticket to Los Angeles. I followed this and got a ticket for 186 dollars! Oh YHVH be praised for this amazing divine appointment!
Rabbi Beryl Epstein began running classes for visitors to the Chabad Rebbe and evolved over the years to one of the most respected and world-renowned tours in NYC. Through humor and charisma he shared Chassidic love and welcomed visitors on a journey through Chassidic life providing what people found to be a profound Jewish experience.
