Yehuda Krinsky

What the Rebbe responded to a journalism student who asked of him to briefly describe his father-in-law, the sixth Chabad Rebbe.

The young student asked the Rebbe to briefly describe the Rayatz, his father-in-law. The Rebbe said, "The Rebbe [Rayatz] was privy to the loftiest spiritual heights and yet never forgot the simple people, people's problems, the mundane things in life."

As one of the Rebbe's aides, I did many tasks for the Rebbe. The Rebbe, without fail, always said thank you, adank in Yiddish. Why, I wondered, was the Rebbe always thanking me, just a young student when I began working in his office? Whatever I did, ...

Rabbi Soloveitchik responded that he'd heard news of the Rebbe's condition, and "I can't envision a world without the Lubavitcher Rebbe..."

The doctors decided they'd sedate the Rebbe and take him to a hospital. Just that moment, the Rebbetzin came walking down from upstairs.

One of the Rebbe's aides describes his accompanying the Rebbe on his visits to the "Ohel," and the very last visit.

From even before the Rebbe took the mantle of leadership, the Rebbe had the custom of speaking to young children. Later in his, this would become a more oft occurrence.

The journalist waited at the end of the line, approached the Rebbe and asked, "Tell me, of what significance is 90?"

Though I was accustomed to the Rebbe's handwriting, this particular letter was now like a maze, a labyrinth of words...

With profound sadness and deep sorrow, we received the definitive news, just a short while ago, confirming the brutal murder of two of our finest, Rabbi Gavriel Noach, 29, and Rivkah Holtzberg, 28, our dear representatives in Mumbai, India, who served ...