1, 1939, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the sixth
Lubavitcher Rebbe, was staying in Otwock, a resort town outside of Warsaw where he'd established a Chabad yeshiva.
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Commentaries from the
Lubavitcher Rebbe have been incorporated in a concise way into the Haggadah, providing the children with a true Chassidic experience of the Seder.
Horodetsky and the Maid of Ludmir tradition, the emergence of a female constituency in 20th-century Habad Hasidism, and from woman as hasid to Woman as tsadik in the teachings of the last two
Lubavitcher Rebbes.
(Rabbi Alexander Milchtein tells us that he follows the teachings of the
Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson.) These two children now are adults, however, and all state proceedings with respect to them are closed.
Naftali Berg, based on the
Lubavitcher Rebbe's conviction that "the uncertainty principle is not correct from the Jewish point of view." Berg proposed that the probabilistic description of Quantum Mechanics should be replaced by Chaos (BERG 1995).
For instance, no mention is made of Ellen Koskoff's book on Habad music (Music in
Lubavitcher Ufe [Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000]), or to her earlier article in Janet Belcove-Shalin's collection of essays on Hasidim in the U.S.
Schneerson, the late
Lubavitcher Rebbe (leader), and how it reminds and teaches us that "true freedom'' means "total freedom'' and how Jews must strive for "true freedom'' in all three aspects of daily life (broken down as "the realm of the soul,'' "the realm of the body'' and "surrounding world,'' in which the individual lives).
The Holocaust and extermination of six million Jews was seen by Chabad's spiritual mentor, the
Lubavitcher Rebbe, Yosef Schneerson, and Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who succeeded the former on his death in 1951, as a "preparation" for the messianic redemption.