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| A Jewish Messiah? The Rebbe (Heilman/Friedman) |
“Could the Chabad Rebbe be Moshiach?”
Did the Rebbe ever explicitly declare himself to be Moshiach (the Messiah)?
QUESTION: Rabbi, we have a question: Does the state of Israel have a right to commit genocide on the Palestinians and ethnically cleanse them from their homeland, using such means as forced relocation, starvation, aerial bombardment of civilians, and lying about it in the media?
We'll starve them then fly them to the Congo... - ANSWER: I don't want to get in trouble with the authorities, who already attack Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, on a regular basis. So let's let Neturei Karta Rabbi answer that one: NKUSA.org
The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Authors Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman have 4.2 out of 5 stars with 78 ratings for this biography. It is the story of one of the most compelling Jewish religious leaders of modern times.From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson ― revered by his followers worldwide simply as "the Rebbe (rabbi) ― built the Lubavitcher Movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today.
Swept away by his expectation that the Messiah was coming, he came to believe that HE could deny death and change history.
Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman paint an unforgettable portrait of Russian Rabbi Schneerson, showing how he reinvented himself from an aspiring French-trained electrical engineer into a charismatic leader who believed that he and his Lubavitcher Hasidic emissaries could transform the world.
They reveal how his messianic convictions ripened and how he attempted to bring the ancient idea of a day of redemption onto the modern world's agenda.
Heilman and Friedman also trace what happened after the Rebbe's death, by which time many of his followers had come to think of him as the Messiah himself. [He did not say so or, at least, not in so many words.]
The Rebbe tracks Schneerson's remarkable life from his birth in Russia, to his student days in Berlin and Paris, to his rise to global renown in New York, where he developed and preached his powerful spiritual message from the group's gothic mansion [his house] in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
This compelling book demonstrates how Schneerson's embrace of traditionalism and American-style modernity made him uniquely suited to his messianic mission.
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