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Article: Rebbe's will dodges issue of succession
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- June 24, 1994
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Yori Yanover
Jewish Exponent
06-24-1994
Rebbe's will dodges issue of succession.
The late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson wrote his will in February 1988, three days after the death of his wife, Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka. No doubt, her departing brought to his mind thoughts of his own mortality.
Two years earlier, the Lubavitch movement had been entangled in a legal struggle over the estate of its previous rebbe. Rabbi Schneerson was all too aware of the needless diversions, not to speak of losses, such struggles cause.
He set out to devises a will which would most effectively chart out his vision of the Lubavitch movement's future. The document he produced is short and appears on its face to ...