REBBE ROUSERS (Lubavitcher Messianists Attack Plaque)

New York Post ^ | December 16, 2004 | JOSEPH MOLLICA, JAMIE SCHRAM and BILL SANDERSON

[nickcarraway]

Nine people were arrested yesterday in a melee at the headquarters of Brooklyn's most visible ultra-Orthodox Jewish movement, which is divided over whether the Lubavitcher founder, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, is alive or dead.

Workers at Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights were installing a new plaque on the building which refers to Schneerson's "blessed memory."

[Jaysun]

which is divided over whether the Lubavitcher founder, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, is alive or dead.

I can't believe they haven't sorted that out. He's been dead for 10 years.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

In contrast to this fringe element, many other followers of Lubavitch Hassidism consciously try to keep their deceased leader's words alive by speaking of him and his pronoucements in present tense, as one refers to great thinkers and philosophers of the past, e.g. "Socrates says," "Jesus says," etc. It seems a little odd to choose this mode in refering to someone so recently deceased, but as time passes, the practice will seem quite normal. Rabbi Menachem Schneerson was indeed a wise man, well educated both religiously and secularly (he graduated from the Sorbonne). He wrote a huge number of responsa in many volumes, which remain as interpretive source material on all manner of issues and questions.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

ping.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Ping.

[dennisw]

It's Chanukah time///// They're just blowing off some steam

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz:

Wha? Ya got a problem with a bunch a' freaks beating the crap outa each other? Next thing ya know, you'll be bitchin' about not being hit ova da head wit a brick. Get da f**K outa heah!

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[dennisw]

Did he really say something like that?

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Naah.

Not really.

But wouldn't it have been funny if he did?

[rmlew]

Wasn't this already settled?

[Alouette]

Massive chilul Hashem (desecration of G-D's Holy Name)

"Meshichisten" are freaking lunatics. They should be put into cherem (excommunication). I mean this in the nicest way.

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[Zionist Conspirator]

Rabbi Menachem Schneerson was indeed a wise man, well educated both religiously and secularly (he graduated from the Sorbonne). He wrote a huge number of responsa in many volumes, which remain as interpretive source material on all manner of issues and questions.

And he believed the world was created in six literal days!

Berei'shit bara' bump!

[Nachum]

Wasn't this already settled?

It is still a sore subject among Lubavitchers. As time passes, the issue is less heated though.

[Jaysin]

Agreed!

massive Chillul Hashem. I think Lubavitch is slowly separating itself from mainstream Jewry.

[Alouette]

Lubavitch is slowly separating itself from mainstream Jewry.

Only the Meshichisten

[malakhi]

Massive chilul Hashem (desecration of G-D's Holy Name)

"Meshichisten" are freaking lunatics. They should be put into cherem (excommunication).

Agreed.

[onedoug]

Deuteronomy 4:19 and Malachi 1:11.

[Nachum]

LOL.

Some of the kids in my son's summer camp would wear "Y'Chi" Yarmulkas just to piss off the counselors.

[nickcarraway]

How come Rabbi Schneerson didn't see this coming?

[M. Espinola]

The Brooklyn Lubavitch I know are fine people. This is just rubbish 'news reporting'.