Rabbi's Biography Disturbs Followers New York Times

15.06.10

“It is very saintlike,” Mr. Heilman said outside the open-air mausoleum, or ohel, that contains the graves of the rebbe and his dad-in-law and predecessor, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn. Hasidim believe that the spirit of a great pundit remains after death, and many Lubavitchers think the rebbe is not only a sage, but also the messiah.

The biography’s look at Schneerson’s in the flesh life is already causing a stir in the continuing discussion about his legacy.

Mr. Heilman pointed to a headstone fa the ohel that refers in Hebrew to the rebbe as “the Messiah of God.”

“It’s etched in stone,” he said. Rabbi Schneerson, the seventh and at this call the last leader of the Chabad Lubavitchers, remains as powerful a presence in death as in life.

Over the course of his more than 40 years as fabulous rebbe, he transformed this tiny Hasidic sect, with its headquarters in Brooklyn, into an influential global network of Jewish followers and emissaries and turned it into one of the most conspicuous religious movements within American Jewry. His life and philosophy are essential to understanding contemporary Jewish living.

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