#the rebbe

[moshiachmemes]

"It is no different from a child who is born with the tendency to tear our his hair, or bang his head against the wall" - The Lubavitcher Rebbe on Homosexuality

[thejewitches]

[eleheba]

Made these during what felt like self induced hypnosis

[leahbasavraham]

My friend’s cat looks like the Rebbe

[hazak-ubaruch]

[image description: a tweet and attached photo from asthetikeit on Twitter.

The tweet reads: Rav Joseph Soloveitchik and the Lubavitcher Rebbe—the two foremost Jewish leaders of the twentieth century—both attended Heidegger's 1929 lectures on metaphysics in Berlin

The screenshot reads: At one point, he remembers the Rav speaking of a class he had attended in Germany taught by Professor Martin Heidigger, widely regarded as the greatest German philosopher of the twentieth century. The Rav remembered Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson also attending the sessions, and his surprise at seeing the future Rebbe studying Tanya, the basic Chabad philosophic text, while Heidigger was lecturing. End description.]

[schneersohnnwes]

Cambridge University - Writing Biographies of the Chabad Rebbe in the Post-Schneerson Era

This article discusses the biographies of Menachem Mendel Schneerson (the Rebbe) within the broader context of Chabad historiographic lore, in particular the quasi-historical writings of Yosef Yiẓḥak Schneersohn from the 1930s and 1940s. Described by Ada Rapoport-Albert as “hagiography with footnotes,” these seemingly scholarly and modern texts constituted an alternative narrative to that of academic Jewish history. From this vantage point, I consider how biographies published by academics and by hasidic authors have mutually influenced each other, particularly in their scope, form, and method. To that end, I examine the controversy that surrounded the 2010 publication of the first academic biography of Schneerson, Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman's The Rebbe, and analyze the strategies undertaken by subsequent authors that have allowed them to present the Rebbe's life in a form that was no longer “hagiography with footnotes” (which would have alienated a secular readership) but as seemingly impartial biographies (without alienating the hasidic readership).

[joemerl]

"When a person no longer has any opponents, they need to examine themselves; perhaps they are not doing what they are supposed to."

— Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson

[enfant-du-dragon]

Once I finish The Rebbe by Joseph Telushkin, I plan on reading Between Hammer and Sickle by Arie Eliav.

Has anyone read this before? If so what did you think of it? It was mentioned in The Rebbe and I felt it would be rather interesting and I found it difficult to find a copy for some reason. Listings were either unavailable or incredibly expensive (not joking when I say I saw some listed for ~$1000 but that was on Amazon if that tells you anything).