Vaad Letzaer Pnei Harav
Vaad Letzaer Pnei Harav (also known as "Vaad B'or Pnei Melech Chaim") is a committee that organizes screenings and video clips of the Rebbe.
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The committee was founded at the beginning of the year 2005, by R' Yosef Yitzchak Kratz with the goal of strengthening and refreshing the hiskashrus (connection) to the Rebbe among Temimim and Anash.
Before the eyes of the organizers stood the importance and virtue of visualizing the face of the Rebbe, especially during the time of concealment and hiding - in a time when we don't merit to see with our physical eyes the Rebbe "the king in his beauty."
As part of the Vaad's activities, a video of the Rebbe is screened daily in the small zal on the entrance floor of 770, immediately after the completion of the yeshiva's learning sessions.
Towards the month of Adar 2008, there was an elevation in the committee's activities, when the organizers reached an agreement with the Chabad production company JEM, and began screening full-length quality videos every Friday night from the Rebbe's farbrengens, with crowds of Temimim flocking to the screenings, both from the yeshiva's own students and from additional institutions in the neighborhood.
In 2009, renovations were made to the walls of 770 (which had begun to deteriorate), and with the approval of those in charge, a giant video screen was installed in the ceiling of the small zal, which automatically descends from the ceiling by remote control - facilitating the screening and viewing quality.
During the month of Tishrei, with the increasing flow of guests coming to spend the holiday month in the presence of the Rebbe, the committee screens special and fascinating programs with special emphasis on the holiday month events in the presence of the Rebbe, programs that successfully attract hundreds of viewers who remain to watch the holy sights until the late hours of the night.
During Chol Hamoed Sukkot, the video operates throughout all hours of the night, in order to enable as many guests as possible coming from nearby Jewish neighborhoods, who come to the neighborhood to participate in the Simchat Beit Hashoeva celebration, and pass through 770 to draw from the sights and absorb the atmosphere.