Minyan Shelanu Says Goodbye To Their Purim Limo

Minyan Limo Flipping Over picVIDEO: They may not be the best at flipping over an overturned vehicle, but they’re sure good at entertaining a crowd. Last night, Minyan Shelanu said goodbye to their famous Purim Limousine, after five years of use. The 1985 limousine, equipped with lights and sirens, was donated to the Minyan 5 years ago Purim but is now being sold for scrap metal.

Moshe Mizrachi of 123 Auto Deals tells TLS they are hoping to purchase a new one to park in front of the Route 88 headquarters, in the near future.

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25 COMMENTS

  1. I hope the new limo is nice but I hope they paint it a new color, like orange, yellow, even purple, but what ever it may be may they have nothing but joy and happiness to all

  2. I hope someone was smart enough to drain all of the fluids from that car before it was destroyed for the amusement of a few inviduals so it won’t contaminate the ground and prompt an investigation from DEP, Prosecutors Office and Fire Marshals Office. The FD and every other agency had it’s budgets cut and wouldn’t be able respond for an environmental disaster caused on purpose.

  3. I got this article from The Lakewood Shopper, a little over a year ago.

    “LARGER THAN LIFE”

    This week I was driving in a car with a local Lakewood businessman. He was explaining to me how hard business and how busy he was just trying to make ends meet. He then launched into a whole conversation regarding the many different tragedies Lakewood families are dealing with and how he was trying to help them. He went on to list off a laundry list of issues he was dealing with as well as an organization he was planning on starting. I asked him “Why do you need this? You barely have time for your own life? First take care of yourself.” He responded “I know, but no one else is doing it”. That simplistic answer gave me a whole new insight into what the term “larger than life” means. If noone else is doing it then you else will do it if not me?

    We all have our lives to live, in the framework of our lives we incorporate caring and giving for others. We all try to go out of our way to incorporate good deeds but then there are others. There are others that their entire framework is based in the lives of others, whether they be needy, downtrodden or simply unfortunate.

    I must say that here in Lakewood we have so much to be proud of. We have people who model for the world what it means to be devoted to the public first and putting their own needs last. The day to day askanim who always seem to be there for the public as well as the ordinary yungerman who just is always in the middle of one good deed or the other. These people are usually not oft spoken of but their effects ripple through the very essence of our being.

    A shining example of this I found in a building on Main Street on top of a plumbing store. I have heard about the Minyan man times but I never really saw it. It was thus that one night I decided to go there and see for myself what was going on. At first I was shocked. We for the most part live in a rather sheltered world. We daven that our children grow up to be happy b’nai Torah, and seeing just how many teenagers don’t live up to that dream was eye popping. However after a while you realized that these boys were actually very fine for the most part. Some were engrossed in a game of pool while others were playing ping pong. Older mentors and chevrah who come to assist were mingling and interacting. There was not the sense of here are the boys and here are the mentors-it was just one big chevra.

    Besides the beautiful facilities there was a beautiful atmosphere in the room. Their stunning Bais Medrash had a few people learning oblivious to the world. I then noticed that there seem to be a roving group of people. It was like there was a group of people attached to a core and they were just being dragged along. It was then that I got to meet Reb Chaim Abadi Shlit”a. Since then I have come to know him much better but at the time it looked interesting. He was walking around in his hat and jacket with a blue tooth in one ear and another phone in his hand. In a quite voice he was engrossed in a phone call still looking up to quickly answer questions being thrown at him. He answered with a smile and with grace not seeming to be fazed by the intrusions.

    Mothers, mechanchim, rabbeim, therapists and mosdos were bombarding him with questions on his phone and I never heard him say once “I’m busy” or “I’m sorry I don’t have the time” each person and question got addressed. Each boy in the minyan seemed to have a special place in his heart. Everyone got a smile from him and he seemed to know each and every boy’s strong and weak points. Sure here and then there someone would “mouth off at him” when he told them something they didn’t seem to want to hear but it was clear that his cool was there to stay and would never get lost. It was also clear that each boy respected him in an incredible way.

    Throughout the building were people from the community mingling with the chevra. They are all busy people with lives of their own and they certainly don’t get paid for their time but then again these people are larger than life.

    I asked Reb Chaim “I don’t get it I heard about the Minyan but this is incredible, why doesn’t Lakewood know all about you and the Minyan?” His answer was shocking yet true. “Why should people know about this place? Do you think I want kids to think well if I don’t make it in Yeshivah there is an alternative? Should I make fliers to all Lakewood homes with pictures on a glossy paper? My chevra likes to be quiet and in the shadows and that’s how it belongs.”

    Seeing the breadth of his knowledge and experience I wondered why we don’t ever see this man as a guest speaker somewhere or at least in a more public forum. After a few minutes it became clear that this was not his modus operandi. He was simply meant to live in the shadows. He was simply there to make the world a better place. I asked him if he got a salary from the Minyan he responded “Forget a salary if I don’t have to pay for the electric bill and mortgage myself I am happy”.

    Needless to say, my conversation with him was interrupted at least a dozen times as he fielded a plethora of phone calls.

    The Minyan had a Shabbaton this past week with many of the past chevra attending with their wives (and families staying by the shviger). Those who attended were amazed to see what they have accomplished. Guest speakers Rabbonim and darshonim graced the Shabbos making it truly a Shabbos Kodesh.

    Lakewood community has a lot of chesed but many in the field stress that we need more. There are so many families suffering with ill children or parents who need 24 hour assistance. There are families struggling with basic necessities. The needs are more then ever but our there are true selfless souls amongst us as well to battle these events. All we need to do is to find our voice and will and step up to the plate. Many of these families are exhausted their families are drained and their resources are limited. So many kids need big brother, sister, mother, father figures. For one reason or another there are many children who are lost. They are there for one of us to figuratively speaking take and rescue.

    Noone asks a person who is larger than life to join the “larger than life committee” they just are larger than life.

  4. to anonymous
    March 22, 2011 at 7:45 pm

    TRAINED PROFESSIONALS in the FIELD in what they did!!

    What’s difficult to understand?

    If you do not know what profession that is, perhaps, that’s the reason you’ve never seen it.

    PS DO NOT try this at home. (or in YOUR “field”)

  5. So you mean to tell me that you all paid good money (thousands of dollars) and went to a professionally certified school and were taught by highly trained professionals on how to flip a vehicle over on to its roof and also received a professional license or certification to prove to anyone that you are a highly trained professional in that field of amusement. You should take a picture of that and post it on the scoop cause that is breaking news for all to see.

  6. The batteries were removed and gas tank, transmission and motor oil were drained prior to the flipping of the vehicle!!! Also the person hooking up the chains is a professional and certified tow truck operator who can roll over cars all day a limo is a bit harder as there is no center point in the frame to hook up to and he was working with limited chains and was not able to hook up at the a and c points to roll it over most of the pulls that were done were not attempts to roll over the car but rather to get it in to position to roll it over.

    The reason for the demolition of the car was that the transmission had goon bad and the car was rusting away so we decided it was not worth fixing but rather having some fun and flipping. The limo was donated by the guy who flipped it over and he will be hopefully donating a new one soon the minyan shelanu did not pay for the limo and will not be paying for the new one.

    Look out for the new Minyan Shelanu limo comeing soon to rt 88!!!

    Visit minyanshelanu.com to see photos of all the other stuff we do at the minyan shelanu or to donate.

  7. TO: Anonymous (Another GENIUS)
    March 23, 2011 at 2:54 pm

    Can u READ???

    A) It was posted at 9:01 AM – when it WAS Raining
    B) It says…”…Why IS the ground wet…..where the car WAS parked?”

    READ the following:
    Anonymous says:
    March 23, 2011 at 9:01 am

    Why is the ground all wet where the car was parked. Are you sure they drained anything?

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