The first Satmar rebbe, Joel Teitelbaum, came to Brooklyn after surviving the Holocaust and died in 1979. Consequently, there has only been one previous succession to provide any guidance.

An unfamiliar photo of the Rebbe has surfaced as his yartzeit is commemorated on Gimmel Tammuz. It shows him walking in ...

Yud Shevat, the tenth day of Shevat, marked the yahrzeit of the previous Rebbe and the beginning of the nesius, leadership, of the Rebbe. I heard from a dear friend, Reb Nochum Avrohom Yakubovitch ...

The Frierdiker (Previous) Rebbe, R’ Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of sainted memory, was born on the twelfth of Tammuz in the year 5640 (1880) to his parents the 5th Rebbe of Chabad R’ Sholom ...

This week, we mark the anniversary of the Rebbe’s marriage, on the fourteenth of Kislev 5689 (1928), to Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, the daughter of the Previous Rebbe, the Rebbe Rayatz. Years ...

Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman, The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson (Princeton University Press, 2010) pp. 343, $29.95 ...

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson also known as The Rebbe was is the ultimate entrepreneur. The seventh leader of the Lubavitch dynasty took his "brand" of Chabad worldwide by sending emissaries ...

The previous Rebbe, Yosef Yitzhak, had preached of the coming of the Messiah. In moving to assume leadership of Chabad, Menchem Mendel doubled down, he would succeed where his father-in-law had not.

In previous posts, I struggled with the application of this category to individuals who transformed Judaism, but exhibited moral flaws. With regard to the Rebbe, we need not struggle.

The previous rebbe’s grandson staked a claim on the rare texts. Schneerson’s lawyers argued that the books belonged to the organization of Chabad and not to the previous rebbe as a private ...