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1977
Efraim Steinmetz's father knew the Rebbe in Paris during the 1930s.
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early 1960s
Rabbi Ephraim Sturm served as Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the
National Council of Young Israel from 1956 to 1992. In the early 1960s, he read an alarming
statistic about the assimilation rate of Jewish Orthodox students in American colleges.
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Late 1950s
Robert Steingut shares a heartwarming childhood account, of what it was like to be the Rebbe’s neighbor.
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Paris, France • 1930s
David Bezborodko was a businessman from a non-Chassidic family, who directed his family’s glass and mirror factory in Paris.
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Paris - 1939
With Germany about to invade France, Asher Heber’s father was unsure whether to escape
Paris with his family and leave behind their well-established life. When he consulted the Rebbe
for his opinion, the Rebbe suggested some seemingly impossible advice...
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1955
Dr. David Luchins' family joined the Tzemach Tzedek Synagogue in the Brownsville section of
Brooklyn, around 1910. In 1955, when the neighborhood changed, the property was sold for
a large sum. The Rebbe was asked where the money should be spent.
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1968
After the first El Al plane was hijacked to Algiers, the story began to circulate of the Rebbe’s
advice to Ariel Sharon not to board that flight. Rabbi Zev Segal decided to corroborate the
story with the Rebbe himself.
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Berlin, Germany circa 1930
Rabbi Chaim Ciment shares a few stories he heard from Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik about
his days together with the Rebbe in Berlin.
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The “Professor” - 1963, 1967
Dr. Yaacov Hanoka relates how the Rebbe guided him when he first left college and began studying in the Lubavitch Yeshivah
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1956 - 1961
As a rabbinic student at 770, Rabbi Aaron Cousin joined his colleagues in working under the
New York State "Released time" program, which allows Public School students to receive
religious instruction.
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circa 1969
Dr. David Luchins served on the staff of US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan for twenty years. In 1983, he attended a retirement party for Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm of Crown Heights, where she revealed the identity of a most important mentor.
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mid-1950s
Dr. Yitzchak Block is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario.
In the mid-1950s, he accompanied a group of college students to a private audience with the
Rebbe.
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circa 1968
Dov Zlotnik, Professor of Rabbinic Literature at the Conservative Movement’s Jewish Theological Seminary, once delivered a sermon on the importance of Family Purity. As he was to discover, for the Rebbe, a good sermon requires a great ending…
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1972
Yitzchak Rabin was Prime Minister of Israel, and served as Israel’s ambassador to the United States in the early 1970s. In 1972, he was sent to convey Israel’s blessings to the Rebbe in honor of his 70th birthday.
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circa 1909
Efraim Steinmetz is a businessman from Caracas, Venezuela. He and his wife came to the Rebbe with concerns about their children’s Jewish education. The Rebbe answered with a story from his own childhood.
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Berlin, Germany – circa 1928
While living in Berlin, the Rebbe made the acquaintance of a Jewish businessman named Yitzchok Meir Ferstenberg. Rabbi Chazkel Besser of Agudas Yisrael of America later heard these recollections from Yitzchok Meir.
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1940s
Rabbi Leibel Posner was a student at 770 during the 1940s, and would attend the Rebbe’s monthly Shabbos-Mevorchim Farbrengen. An illuminating lesson in the game of life.
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Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine - 1921
Yona Kese grew up in Dnepropetrovsk at the same time the Rebbe was there.
He was a writer, who later became a member in the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset.
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Luga, Russia - 1927
In 1927, the Previous Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, was arrested in Leningrad for counterrevolutionary activity – spreading religion. Shortly thereafter Rabbi Menachem Mendel, his son-in-law to be, was forced into hiding. Shaar Yashuv Cohen is the Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Israel.
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Dnepropetrovsk, 1909
In 1909, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, Rebbetzin Chana and their three sons moved to Dnepropetrovsk, a huge military city 520 kilometers from Kiev, where Rabbi Levi Yitzchok became the rabbi of the city’s 25 synagogues and 50,000 Jews.
He turned to Rabbi Zalman Vilenkin, asking him to teach his sons.
Chana Shapiro is Rabbi Vilenkin’s daughter, recalling her parents’ descriptions of the children in their home.
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