Ohel, The

It’s 5:30 a.m. and faxes and e-mails are coming in nonstop. A maintenance worker hauls fresh chocolate cookies off a truck while another stacks endless pairs of non-leather shoes into a wooden shelf.

"The Ohel" is where the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, was laid to rest on the 3rd of Tammuz 5754

A community's visit to the resting place of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of Lubavitch on his fifth yahrzeit, 3 Tammuz, 5759 - June 17, 1999

Question: I was always under the impression that Judaism firmly believed that there are no intermediaries between man and G‑d, and to pray to the deceased is blasphemous and outlawed by the Bible. If so, why is it permissible to ask the Rebbe to ...

The Rebbe visits the Ohel, resting place of his father-in-law and predecessor Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok of Lubavitch, in the Sir Moses Montifiore Cemetery in Queens, New York.

On the 42nd Yahrzeit of his father-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch, the Rebbe spends many hours at the Ohel.

On Erev Rosh Hashanah, the Rebbe visits the Ohel, resting place of his father-in-law and predecessor, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of Lubavitch.

The Rebbe visits resting place of his predecessor, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn

Dan told me that in recent days, as images of the 9-11 attacks appeared on television again and again with the approach of the anniversary, Sasha had become even more depressed, to the point that he was suicidal.