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Stories About the Sixth Rebbe
Video | 6:17
The Rest of the Story - circa 1948
Rabbi Menachem Porush was born in Jerusalem in 1916. A seventh-generation Jerusalemite,
he devoted his life to championing Torah values and Torah education in Israel.
A story about the Previous Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch.
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Video | 5:16
1940s
Reb Shmuel Isaac Popack recalls events after the Previous Rebbe’s arrival in America.
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Video | 5:41
Reb Mendel Futerfas, imprisoned in a Soviet gulag and unable to communicate with the outside world, composed a unique letter in his mind and “sent” it off to the Previous Rebbe. Reb Mendel’s wife was shocked to receive a letter from the Previous Rebbe in reply to her husband’s “telegram.”
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Video | 3:13
Dr. David Luchins’ father, Dr. Abraham Luchins, was a renowned psychologist and an admirer
of the Previous Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch. In a private audience, he learned
that the Previous Rebbe was also an “admirer” — of a certain Rebbe-to-be.
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Video | 6:47
Rabbi Mayer Plotkin was a student in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, when he heard a former faculty
member recount that the Previous Rebbe boldly kept the doors of the Yeshiva open during a
financial crisis in the late-1940s.
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Video | 4:10
Recounting the daunting challenges to establish Torah in foreign places
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Video | 3:59
Reb Chonye Morosow served as a personal secretary to the fifth and sixth Lubavitcher Rebbes
in Russia. His son, Reb Mendel, was born in 1916, and recalls two episodes in the Rebbes’
homes.
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1941
In 1941, Yehudah Leib Posner, age 13, and his brother Zalman, age 14, were students at the
Yeshiva in 770.
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