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Book Title Bringing Heaven Down to Earth
Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson
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49. Howard Hughes

Upon hearing of the lonely death of an eccentric millionaire:

He felt he could trust no one, for they were all only after his money. For the last twenty years of his life he could only hide from the entire world, without a friend, without any sort of enjoyment of life.

There was a man who had everything, and everything he had was a chain around his neck.

He was like all of us. We hold the keys to our freedom, but we use them to lock ourselves in.

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From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory; words and condensation by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. To order Rabbi Freeman’s book, Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, click here.

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Posted: July 22, 2010
Hughes
To start with Hughes was a driven creative pioneering aviation genius who made multi-millions. Hughes's state of mind as he grew older deteriorated into many phobias, including phobia of germs. Today, most people have a phobia of germs, HIV, or flu, and are concerned with restaurant cleanliness, plastic gloves on servers etc. In Hughes's case the phobias were far more invasive. He was eccentric for sure, but now we use the tamer umbrella terms of personality disorder, bipolar, mixed states, etc. To some Chabad Lubavitch is a cult, and reformed Baal Teshuvahs ("returnees to Judaism") worrisome to family and friends.
My point is that you have chosen to pick on a sick man. The albatross around his neck was mental illness, not money. Today, with all the research and therapies, mental illness is still more art than science, and still stigmatized. In Hughes's day, what help was there? Precious little. You and Warren Buffet should count your blessings.
May G-d continue to bless your mental health/genius to teach us Torah.
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