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It’s Okay To Call Me The Messiah, Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe Allegedly Told Top Aide

In the federal court case between messianists and Chabad mainstream (but still messianist) faction over the right to use the official Chabad publishing house Kehat’s logo, Rabbi Leibel Groner, one of the late Chabad-Lubavitch rebbe’s secretaries, testified that late rebbe expressly allowed hasidim to identify him as the messiah.

Video: Saturday Night Selichot In Chabad's Main Synagogue, 770 Eastern Parkway

The solemn penitential prayers called selichot start each year before Rosh Hashana on a Saturday night. This year, that Saturday night fell on September 5. Here is video of how these penitential prayers were conducted in the main synagogue in the international headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch located at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York.

Ubiquitous Ads Promising Prayers By Sefardi Kabbalist In Exchange For Donations To Chabad-Linked Anti-Missionary Charity Ruled Illegal

The ubiquitous ads for the haredi Yad L’achim anti-missionary anti-intermarriage organization featuring Rabbi Yehiel Abuhatzeira have been ruled illegal.

Modern Orthodox Academic Covers For Late Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe's Flaws – And His Messianism

Rabbi Dr. Alan Brill teaches comparative religion at Seton Hall University. Brill was driven out of Yeshiva University years ago, and his review of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz's new book on the life of the late Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson gives the world a good look into the academic dishonesty inherent to Brill's work that was in part behind that move.

Video: Another African Tricked Into Saying Late Rebbe Is Messiah By Chabad

A Chabad hasid tricks an African tribesman in the Kingdom of Lesotho into saying the Chabad messianist slogan meaning its dead rebbe is alive and is the messiah.

Video: Chabad Gives Non-Jewish African Kids Candy – If They Say The Late Rebbe Is Alive And Is The Messiah First

Chabad hasidim give African kids candy – but only if those kids first recite "Yechi…," the Chabad slogan that means "Long live our master, our spiritual guide, our rabbi King Messiah forever and ever!"

Chabad Puts Tefillin On Santa Claus

Make of this picture from Chabad of Coconut Creek, Florida what you will.

Video: Happy Holidays From Chabad

The rebbes of Chabad-Lubavitch wish you happy holidays in a new parody video.

Giant Chabad Menorah Joins A Christian Nativity Scene – With Chabad’s Blessings

“We have an almost-life-size Nativity scene, and the [Chabad] hanukkia stands behind it, as a celebration of Jesus’s Jewish roots. We love it. It’s just beautiful."

Chabad Chinese Missionary Propaganda Found On NYC Subway

Chabad Chinese language missionary propaganda declaring their dead rebbe is alive and is the messiah was found on the Q Train last night in New York City.

Chabad-Lubavitch Soldier Being Court-Marshaled Over Messianist Yarmulke

A Chabad-Lubavitch messianist who is a soldier in Israel's haredi Nahal Haredi battalion is being court-marshaled because he refuses to replace his "Yechi" yarmulke witha yarmulke that has no writing on it.

A Message To Chabad-Lubavitch From Bing

Today is the 19th yartzeit of the  Rebbe. How does Bing Translator translate Chabad-Lubavitch's slogan "Yechi…", יחי אדוננו מורנו ורבינו מלך המשיח לעולם ועד,  declaring the (late) Rebbe to be the messiah?  Like this:

The Chabad-Lubavitch Hasid Who Became A Christian And Served As The Tzar's Chief Censor For Jewish Texts

A Chabad-Lubavitch hasid converted to Christianity out of desperation and became the Tzar's chief censor of Jewish texts and newspapers while still maintaining his Jewish identity.

Video: Chabad Messianists 'Get' Dollars 'From' The Late Rebbe

More mass delusion: Chabad messianists 'get' dollars 'from' the late Chabad-Lubavitch rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson this past Sunday in Chabad's main synagogue at 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. The Rebbe died in 1994 and is (quite obviously) not visible on the video.

Video: Chabad Messianists 'Get' Wine On Shavuot 'From' Chabad's Dead Rebbe

Mass delusion: Here is a clear video of Chabad messianists 'getting' wine this motzoie Shavuot for Kos Shel Bracha 'from' Chabad's dead rebbe – who is, of course, nowhere to be seen.

Picture Of The Day: Chabad Messianists 'Get' Dollars From Chabad's Dead Rebbe

A mass psychosis. Chabad messianists get dollars 'from' 'the Rebbe' Sunday in Chabad's main synagogue at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn.

Chabad Messianist Starts School For Aspiring Prophets

The Cain and Able School of Prophets is located in south Tel Aviv. It’s founder, Rabbi Shmuel Portman Hapartzi, is a Chabad messianist. Hapartzi believes that the generation of redemption has already arrived. Therefore, he claims, training a new generation of prophets is permitted.

Bowing To An Imaginary (And Dead) Rebbe

Chabad followers present (the empty chair of) the Lubavitcher Rebbe, dead for more than 18 years, with notes asking for prayers for family members and for themselves, and bow to the imaginary rebbe sitting in that empty chair in the main synagogue of Chabad world headquarters in Brooklyn.

Is This The Root Of Chabad's Heresy?

"The rabbis of the Talmud, particularly the Babylonian Talmud, were quite aware that older Jewish traditions could give rise to binitarian [one god, two aspects or personalities (or beings) of that god] notions of God and to Divine-human figures with supernal powers: Enoch, Metatron, David, the angels and even some notions of Adam fit this bill. And Christianizing Jews did indeed connect the dots, which is why the Babylonian rabbis responded to them [by condemning them] so forcefully."

A Chabad Messianist License Plate

Spotted near 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York – Chabad's international headquarters.

Soldiers Should Go To Jail Rather Than Take Off Chabad Messianist Yarmulke, Rabbi Says

Chabad IDF soldiers who wear yarmulkes with the Chabad messianist slogan, known as "Yechi…," proclaiming that the Lubavitcher Rebbe is alive and is the messiah should continue to wear those yarmulkes, despite orders from IDF brass banning them, even if this means the soldiers will be jailed, a leading Chabad rabbi reportedly ruled.

IDF Bans Chabad Messianist Yarmulkes

The Israel Defense Forces has reiterated its ban on kippot that have writing on them, specifically noting that Chabad followers who have insisted on wearing so-called “Yechi” yarmulkes in the military may not do so.

Chabad's Own Eucharist

Jews should eat the matzoh and drink the wine of Moshiach's Seudah (the closing meal of the Passover holiday allegedly initiated by the Ba'al Shem Tov but for the most part only kept by Chabad) with perfect faith that he will come, and the messiah will become part of their very flesh and blood, and their faith.

New Chabad Mitzvah Tank Look Portrays Dead Rebbe As "King Messiah"

A Chabad "mitzvah tank," a mobile home outfitted as a mini Chabad House, portrays Chabad's dead rebbe as the "King Messiah." The photograph was recently taken in Manhattan.

Audio: Boteach v. Tovia Singer

Chabad's anti-missionary rabbi Jacob Immanuel Schochet cancelled his radio appearance last night, but anti-missionary rabbi Tovia Singer filled in for a segment and challenged Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on Botea (terrible) book, "Kosher Jesus." And here's what it all boiled down to…

Live: Boteach v. Schochet

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Chabad anti-missionary expert Rabbi Jacob Immanuel Schochet duke it out over Boteach's new (and really bad) book, "Kosher Jesus," Saturday night – and you can listen live.

Brawl Breaks Out In Chabad's Main Synagogue

A brawl broke out in Chabad's main synagogue at 770 Eastern Parkway after a Chabad yeshiva's spiritual guide demanded that a group of 'Tzfatim,' students from Chabad's extreme messianst yeshiva in Tzefat, Israel, remove room dividers they set up in the back of the synagogue so that “the Rebbe" (who died in 1994)  "can conduct yechidus” –  i.e., meet with the group of visitors who came to Brooklyn from Israel to celebrate Yud Shvat, the anniversary of the late Rebbe's ascent to leadership of Chabad.

Video: Chabad Messianists Receive Dollars "From" The Dead Rebbe

Chabad messianists receive dollars to be given to charity "handed" to them by Chabad's Rebbe, who died in 1994.

New Chabad Children's Book Teaches Kids How To Behave At The Rebbe's Grave

But there is a problem with this book, if it's to be judged by its cover.

Chabad And Christianity Nearly Identical, Convert Said

A famous Jewish convert to Christianity says Chabad and Christianity are so close, only a tiny spark is necessary to cause mass conversion of Chabadniks to Christ.

Chabad Idol Worship Revised?

You're Chabad. You want to do the right thing. Your yeshiva or camp, your rabbi or your parents, your hevruta or your neighbor, gives you these sheets and urges you to fill one out every day. Would you check the box with the blue arrow? Well now you don't have to make that choice.

Idol Worship?

You're Chabad. You want to do the right thing. Your yeshiva or camp, your rabbi or your parents, your hevruta or your neighbor, gives you these sheets and urges you to fill one out every day. Would you check the box with the blue arrow?

Video: Judaism?

What happens when some Chabadniks pray in Chabad's main synagogue in Brooklyn?

Idol Worship Or Judaism?

With a video screen playing full-length Farbrengen, the yeshiva student can really relive moments with the Rebbe. A large, piercing picture of the Rebbe hangs on one side, and a single table with papers and pens, offer the bochurim to write to the Rebbe – who died in 1994 – privately.

Elvis And The Lubavitcher Rebbe Play Cards Together In The Afterlife?

When asked about factions in Chabad that believe the late Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who passed away in 1994, is a demigod or still alive, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz references Elvis Presley.

Scion Of Chabad Dynasty Became A Christian Missionary

Feivel (Paul) Levertov's professional mission was to convert Jews to Christianity.

Chabad And Messianism

"A group enveloped in our tradition is disseminating ideas foreign to our beliefs and representing us unfaithfully."

Fight Between Chabad Messianists Leads To Excommunication

"He eats on the fasts Chazal established…I can attest that his views regarding belief in the oneness of God contains heresy and apikorsus…His ways are closely reminiscent of the cult of Shabtai Tzvi, and where it may lead, no one can know."

Chabad, Messianism, And An Excommunication

What are the accepted limits of Chabad messianism?

Chabad Rebbe Worship Caught On Video

Videos from Chabad world headquarters.

RCA Bans Chabad Messianist Rabbis

13 years after first opposing Chabad messianism, the Modern Orthodox rabbinical group finally takes a step to make that ruling have a concrete impact.

Chabad's Lost Messiah

Did the Rebbe really believe he was the messiah?

Chabad Yeshiva Brawl Over Messiah Goes To Court

"I'm going to call the Messiah as my first witness," a defense lawyer quipped, while prosecutors warn judge about possible witness tampering.

Chabad Rabbis Rule Lubavitch Can't Take Money From Christians

Without proof, International Fellowship of Christians and Jews ruled treife due to potential, not actual, missionary activity.

Luke Ford Blogger Gets Invited To A Chabad Messianist Wedding

The invitation says the Rebbe, who passed away in 1994, is alive and the messiah.

FailedMessiah – The Interview

Shmarya Rosenberg talks about Chabad, haredim, and why he left Orthodoxy.

Bob Dylan Makes Christmas Album

This is "completely consistent with his longstanding tradition of doing the unexpected."

RABBI ADIN STEINSALTZ: The Rebbe is "Like Elijah the Prophet" "Almost a Supernatural Being"

Of course, Elijah the Prophet did not die…

"He Died, So We Come Here To Pray To Him."

Chabad 15 years later.

Satmar Rabbi Resigns Amid Jail Perks Scandal

Rabbi Leib Glanz says goodbye.