Posts Tagged ‘ lubuvitcher rebbe ’

The Rebbe’s Christian Son

November 6, 2012
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Members of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect of Hasidism love nothing more than telling stories about their rebbes. One episode, however, that doesn’t get much mention concerns Rabbi Moshe, son of Chabad’s founding rebbe, Shneur Zalman of Liadi. As David Assaf reports in his book Untold Tales of the Hasidim: Crisis and Discontent in the…

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Chaim Potok and the Rebbe Walk into a Bar.

July 12, 2012
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A farbrengen is a Hasidic spiritual gathering–it can be just a handful of people, or a few thousand. Stories…

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Finding God in Madonna

September 29, 2010
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What sort of spiritual seeker uses Madonna as a role model? Ten years ago, Wendy…

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