Download or read book The Final Redeemer written by Alon Dahan and published by Alon Dahan. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson served as Grand Rabbi or "Rebbe" of the Chabad Chassidic dynasty. Under his leadership, the previously small and exclusive Chassidic group expanded into a major force, whose influence was even felt in the non-Jewish world. A substantial portion of his disciples began to seriously contemplate whether he was the Messiah. "Dr. Alon Dahan's study on the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, is the most comprehensive, methodical and in-depth analysis yet written about this individual, who has served as a central figure in the spiritual world of twentieth century Jewry." Prof. Joseph Dan, Israel Prize Laureate, Hebrew University ..".Dr. Dahan's study is unique in its clarity and systematic as it explores and explains the foundations of Messianic spiritualism and its global, societal influence from its inception after World War II until today..." Prof. Rachel Elior, Jewish Philosophy professor, Hebrew University ..".The Final Redeemer will take the reader to the depths of the Messianic drama, the theosophical structure and messianic consciousness existing within Hassidism and the entire Jewish community..." Prof. Yoram Bilu, Israel Prize Laureate, Hebrew University ...Alon Dahan has provided us with a comprehensive work about the man he studied. The author delved into books and tractates that no researcher before him has included and has shared with us the Rebbe's visions and teachings. Guy Kantor, Journalist Dr. Alon Dahan is a lecturer of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2007, he was awarded the Schlomiuk Prize.
Download or read book The Rebbe written by Samuel Heilman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one of the most compelling religious leaders of modern times From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson—revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe—built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today. Swept away by his expectation that the Messiah was coming, he came to believe that he could deny death and change history. Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman paint an unforgettable portrait of Schneerson, showing how he reinvented himself from an aspiring French-trained electrical engineer into a charismatic leader who believed that he and his Lubavitcher Hasidic emissaries could transform the world. They reveal how his messianic convictions ripened and how he attempted to bring the ancient idea of a day of redemption onto the modern world's agenda. Heilman and Friedman also trace what happened after the Rebbe's death, by which time many of his followers had come to think of him as the Messiah himself. The Rebbe tracks Schneerson's remarkable life from his birth in Russia, to his student days in Berlin and Paris, to his rise to global renown in New York, where he developed and preached his powerful spiritual message from the group's gothic mansion in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. This compelling book demonstrates how Schneerson's embrace of traditionalism and American-style modernity made him uniquely suited to his messianic mission. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Download or read book Can the Rebbe Be Moshiach written by Gil Student and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his lifetime, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of blessed memory, was a highly successful religious leader. His brilliant scholarship and eloquent speaking touched hundreds of thousands of people. Larger than life and presiding in a post-Holocaust world during which Jews returned to the land of Israel in an unprecedented fashion, he was declared by many of his followers to be the Moshiach (Messiah) for whom Jews have waited for thousands of years. His death in 1994 should have dashed those hopes. However, many of his followers have advanced the position that even today the Rebbe can still be Moshiach. This book is an analysis of this position within the Jewish tradition. What do the doctrinally binding texts say about a dead man being Moshiach? In a presentation appropriate for both the layman and the experienced scholar, this work demonstrates from dozens of texts that according to the authentic Jewish tradition the Rebbe unfortunately cannot be Moshiach.
Download or read book Anticipating the Redemption written by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Exile to Redemption written by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and published by . This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding compilation of insights into various aspects of the theme of exile and redemption. These brief excerpts and Chasidic stories illuminate the purpose of exile, the role of the individual Jew in bringing its end, and the indicators of the Redemption in our generation.
Download or read book Menachem Mendel Schneerson written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Chabad messianism, Crown Heights riot, Public menorah, The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference, Likkutei Sichos, Mykolaiv, 770 Eastern Parkway, Oholei Torah, Kol Menachem, Chaya Mushka Schneerson, 3 Tammuz, Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, Mitzvah tank, Ohel, Montefiore Cemetery, 11 Nissan, Niggun Shamil, Hayom Yom, Igrot Kodesh. Excerpt: Chabad messianism, or Lubavitch messianism, is a term used to describe a spectrum of beliefs within the Chabad Hasidic movement regarding their late leader Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson and his purported position as the Messiah. While some believe that he died but will return as the messiah, others believe that he is merely "hidden." A small minority believe that he has God-like powers, or is the "creator" while a few negate the idea that he is the messiah entirely. The prevalence of these views within the movement is disputed, though very few will openly say that Schneerson cannot be the Messiah. The belief that Schneerson is the messiah can be traced to the 1950s; it picked up momentum during the decade preceding Schneerson's death in 1994, and has continued to develop since his death. The response of the wider Haredi and Modern Orthodox leadership has been almost universally antagonistic to this belief. The issue remains controversial within the Jewish world. The Chabad messianist flag. The Hebrew word is "Mashiach," meaning "Messiah." The Messianist Flag in JerusalemBefore Schneerson's death in 1994 a significant body of Chabad Hasidim believed that he would soon become the Messiah by ushering in the Messianic Age and constructing the Third Temple. Books and pamphlets were written containing arguments for the Rabbi's status as Messiah, some of which Schneerson opposed, but some he also encouraged on occasions. During the later years of his life...
Download or read book I Await His Coming Every Day written by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maimonides' well-known 13 principles of faith includes the statement: "I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Mashiach. Even if he delays, I will wait every day for him to come." What does it mean to "wait every day?" Going to the primary source, Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, this book assembles selected translations alongside the vocalized Hebrew text and presents them together with five discourses of the Lubavitcher Rebbe that illuminate these chapters. The discourses deal with the function of Mashiach, the nature of the Biblical sources that foretell the Redemption, prophecies concerning Mashiach, and an explanation of "the ultimate good of the era of the Redemption."
Download or read book Menachem Mendel Schneerson written by Ezra Glinter and published by . This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and thought of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, one of the most influential--and controversial--rabbis in modern Judaism The Chabad-Lubavitch movement, one of the world's best-known Hasidic groups, is driven by the belief that we are on the verge of the messianic age. One man is most recognized for the movement's success: the seventh and last Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994), believed by many of his followers to be the Messiah. While hope of redemption has sustained the Jewish people through exile and persecution, it has also upended Jewish society with its apocalyptic and anarchic tendencies. So it is not surprising that Schneerson's messianic fervor made him one of the most controversial rabbinic leaders of the twentieth century. How did he go from being an ordinary rabbi's son in the Russian Empire to a mystical sage who revitalized a centuries-old Hasidic movement, constructed an outreach empire of unprecedented scope, and earned the admiration and condemnation of political, communal, and religious leaders in America and abroad? Ezra Glinter's deeply researched account is the first biography of Schneerson to combine a nonpartisan view of his life, work, and impact with an insider's understanding of the ideology that drove him and that continues to inspire the Chabad-Lubavitch movement today.
Download or read book From Exile to Redemption written by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmic questions such as the purpose of exile, the role of the individual Jew in ending it, and the indicators of the redemption in our generation, are illuminated in this ... compilation by ... chassidic insights. This ... work was undertaken in response to a call by the ... Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson Shlita, that Jews everywhere escalate the process of Redemption by (among other things) studying subjects related to the coming of Mashiach, in both the legal and the mystical dimensions of the Torah. Accordingly, the reader is here provided with a ... translation of classic teachings on these subjects by the Rebbe and by earlier leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch chassidic movement. -Book jacket.
Download or read book Lubavitcher Messianism written by Simon Dein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1994 the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Schneerson, died leaving no successor. For many years his followers had maintained that he was Moshiach -the Jewish Messiah and would usher in the Redemption. After his death Lubavitch divided into two opposing groups. While some messianists hold that the Rebbe died but is to be resurrected as the messiah, others hold that he is still alive, but concealed. The anti-messianists maintain that the Rebbe could have been Moshiach if God had willed it, but they disagree vehemently that as such he could come back from the dead. Using ethnographic data obtained by the author through twenty years of fieldwork, this book presents a social-psychological account of Lubavitcher Messianism and moves beyond the typical scholarly preoccupation with 'belief' and 'dissonance' to examine the role of rhetoric, religious experience and ritual in maintaining counterintuitive convictions. Through examining the parallels between early Christianity and messianism in Lubavitch this book provides a comprehensive perspective for examining messianism generally
Download or read book Open Secret written by Elliot R. Wolfson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994) was the seventh and seemingly last Rebbe of the Habad-Lubavitch dynasty. Marked by conflicting tendencies, Schneerson was a radical messianic visionary who promoted a conservative political agenda, a reclusive contemplative who built a hasidic sect into an international movement, and a man dedicated to the exposition of mysteries who nevertheless harbored many secrets. Schneerson astutely masked views that might be deemed heterodox by the canons of orthodoxy while engineering a fundamentalist ideology that could subvert traditional gender hierarchy, the halakhic distinction between permissible and forbidden, and the social-anthropological division between Jew and Gentile. While most literature on the Rebbe focuses on whether or not he identified with the role of Messiah, Elliot R. Wolfson, a leading scholar of Jewish mysticism and the phenomenology of religious experience, concentrates instead on Schneerson's apocalyptic sensibility and his promotion of a mystical consciousness that undermines all discrimination. For Schneerson, the ploy of secrecy is crucial to the dissemination of the messianic secret. To be enlightened messianically is to be delivered from all conceptual limitations, even the very notion of becoming emancipated from limitation. The ultimate liberation, or true and complete redemption, fuses the believer into an infinite essence beyond all duality, even the duality of being emancipated and not emancipated--an emancipation, in other words, that emancipates one from the bind of emancipation. At its deepest level, Schneerson's eschatological orientation discerned that a spiritual master, if he be true, must dispose of the mask of mastery. Situating Habad's thought within the evolution of kabbalistic mysticism, the history of Western philosophy, and Mahayana Buddhism, Wolfson articulates Schneerson's rich theology and profound philosophy, concentrating on the nature of apophatic embodiment, semiotic materiality, hypernomian transvaluation, nondifferentiated alterity, and atemporal temporality.
Download or read book Heaven on Earth written by Menachem Mendl Schneerson and published by Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time ever, the Lubavitcher Rebbe's theology-the philosophy that spurred the growth of Chabad Chasidism from a small enclave into a worldwide movement-has been encapsulated in one volume for the English reading public. Better known for the social programs he created, Rabbi Schneerson's profound genius is brought into sharp focus in this thoughtfully written work. Drawing on the vast treasury of discourses and written works by Rabbi Schneerson, the author explores the metaphysical implications of placing the essence of holiness squarely within the mundane. This radical outlook is then applied to offer a distinctly Lubavitch perspective on Jewish observance, the soul, the afterlife, and Jewish out-reach. Heaven on Earth tackles this intellectual task with the layperson in mind, and the author's skillful use of everyday analogies-from laser beams to chocolate ice cream-keeps this heavenly exploration down to earth.
Download or read book The Messiah Problem written by Chaim Rapoport and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rebbe Menachem Mendel Shneerson Life and Afterlife written by Menachem Fridman and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-29 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson--revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe--built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today. Swept away by his expectation that the Messiah was coming, he came to believe that he could deny death and change history.Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman paint an unforgettable portrait of Schneerson, showing how he reinvented himself from an aspiring French-trained electrical engineer into a charismatic leader who believed that he and his Lubavitcher Hasidic emissaries could transform the world. They reveal how his messianic convictions ripened and how he attempted to bring the ancient idea of a day of redemption onto the modern world's agenda. Heilman and Friedman also trace what happened after the Rebbe's death, by which time many of his followers had come to think of him as the Messiah himself.The Rebbe tracks Schneerson's remarkable life from his birth in Russia, to his student days in Berlin and Paris, to his rise to global renown in New York, where he developed and preached his powerful spiritual message from the group's gothic mansion in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. This compelling book demonstrates how Schneerson's embrace of traditionalism and American-style modernity made him uniquely suited to his messianic mission.Translated into Russian
Download or read book The Rebbe the Messiah and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference written by David Berger and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history, an indictment, a lament, and an appeal, focusing on the messianic trend in Lubavitch hasidism. It records the shattering of one of Judaism's core beliefs and the remarkable equanimity with which the standard-bearers of Orthodoxy have allowed it to happen. This is a development of striking importance for the history of religions, and it is an earthquake in the history of Judaism. David Berger describes the unfolding of this historic phenomenon and proposes a strategy to contain it.
Download or read book End of Days written by Wendell G. Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering religious traditions ranging from Buddhism to Christianity to Zoroastrianism and modern apocalyptic movements such as Arun Shinrikyo and the Branch Davidians, this book addresses prophesied end of days from a breadth of perspectives and includes material on often-neglected themes and genres. End of Days: An Encyclopedia of the Apocalypse in World Religions describes apocalyptic writings in the world's major religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. The cross-referenced entries address ancient traditions—Zoroastrianism, as one example—as well as modern apocalyptic movements, such as Arun Shinrikyo, the Branch Davidians, and the Order of the Solar Temple. This book's broad scope offers coverage of overlooked traditions, such as Mayan Apocalyptic, Norse Apocalyptic, Native American eschatological literatures, and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Readers seeking detailed information on the eschatological and apocalyptic movements and proponents of End Times can reference entries about individuals such as Harold Camping, Jerry Falwell, David Koresh of the Brand Davidians, and James Jones and the People's Temple. This single-volume encyclopedia also contains numerous historical entries on subjects such as the Great Disappointment, the Great Awakening periods of religious revival, Joachim of Flora, the Maccabean Revolt, and the Plymouth Brethren. The influence of apocalyptic ideas far outside the realm of religion itself is documented through entries on film, including well-known modern movies such as The Hunger Games and Apocalypse Now, literature by writers such as Dante, and works of fine art like Wagner's Götterdämmerung. The inclusion of entries related to literature, film, and other art forms further attests to the wide-ranging social influence of belief in the end of days.
Download or read book Larger Than Life written by Shaul Shimon Deutsch and published by . This book was released on with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
