Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh and last Lubavitcher Rebbe, still watches over a busy highway into Tel Aviv today, twenty years after his July 1 death at age 92.
Several new biographies and articles attempt with varying success to encapsulate the man who was “the most famous rabbi since Maimonides.” In part because he remade Chabad Orthodoxy into a worldwide movement. From Kathmandu to Killeen, Texas, Chabad meeting places offer Jews and interested non-Jews traditional but non-judgmental Jewish answers in a skeptical world.
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Re his death: you know his followers don’t consider him dead.
Some don’t, indeed. Chabad is pretty mystical. They generally believe in the immortality of the spirit, the soul, though not of the body. The Rebbe, according to one biographer, spent hours each day at the grave of his predecessor, seeking advice.