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“I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe”

Op-Ed: "I am a Chosid. I am a Rav. I am a Misnagid. I am a Rosh Yeshivah. I am frum. I am not yet frum. I am a Jew. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe." Full Article

Gimmel Tammuz, 1994

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huh
June 27, 2009 6:38 pm

a minaged???

Nice
June 27, 2009 3:30 pm

It is good, if you understand that it is SOMEONE ELSE writing it! its just a poetic way of describing the rebbes greatness

I dont understand!
June 26, 2009 11:08 am

It seems like COL is a vehicle for anyone to anonymously publish their thoughts. Perhaps the poem encompasses the deep relations of the rebbe to klal yisroel, however it does not do the rebbe himself justice.

to 21
June 26, 2009 2:36 am

kerovim are near ones so to speak, rechokim are far ones STS.
i agree. wayyyyyyyy to many i’s whats this a ego-booster?

I understand that this is a poem, nevertheless...
June 25, 2009 4:33 pm

This poem does convey the profundity of the Rebbe, however I doubt you and I have the permission to contract the Rebbe to mere words like this, just like we can never do that about Hashem.

Who is the author?

agree with #6 all the way
June 25, 2009 4:07 pm

100%

oiy!!
June 25, 2009 3:22 pm

sniff, sniff

i agree completely with #20
June 25, 2009 3:21 pm

could not have put it in better words myself!!

what is kerovim rechovim/karovim??
June 25, 2009 3:20 pm
The Rebbe did use the word "ich"
June 25, 2009 1:47 pm

“Ven ich bin geven a kind in cheder” and the like as needed. As far as the criticism of the “I” in the article, I think it has to be taken a little bit Behafshotoh. In other words – poetic license. It doesn’t have to mean “I” in the classic sense, it’s a vehicle to get the point across. And done magnificenlty, IMHO.

wow.....
June 25, 2009 1:39 pm

this is a truely wonderful article.. there should be more like this one!
may we be reunited with the Rebbe in our days, moshiach now! ad mosai?

Who the Rebbe was
June 25, 2009 12:29 pm

The poem was nice, but to really understand the Rebbe, go to http://www.chabad.org/therebbe

the Rebbe never said "ICH"
June 25, 2009 12:19 pm

I understand this is a poem. But this is a fact: The Rebbe NEVER said ‘I’ at a Farbrengen — never used the Yiddish word “Ich”

wow
June 25, 2009 11:54 am

thank you for this

if not mistaken
June 25, 2009 9:54 am

the rebbe once said that we are not kiruv rechokim we r kiruv karovim

Thank you
June 25, 2009 9:47 am

Wow very powerful!

Bs"d I can't remember the last time I saw the Rebbe use the term "I"
June 25, 2009 9:25 am

Bs”d
or “me” .
Maybe it’s just me… I don’t know.

רבי?!?
June 25, 2009 9:00 am

תרלה ב”ה, רבים המחפשים ומבארים מעלות וגדולת נשיאי חב”ד בכלל, ונשיא דורנו, הוא כ”ק מו”ח אדמו”ר הכ”מ, בפרט בענינים שונים: איש המסירות-נפש, גאון, בעל מדות, צדיק, בעל רוח הקודש, מלומד בנסים ועוד ועוד. וגדלו ביותר שבחים אלו, על פי ההגדרה בתורת החסידות, מהו מסירות נפש, מהו גאון וכו’. ובכל זה – העיקר חסר כאן. ונוסף על זה, שהוא עיקר בעצם, חשוב הוא ביחוד משום שנוגע ביותר, וביחוד לנו, קהל חסידיו ומקושריו. וזהו – מה שהוא הוא הנשיא, ונשיא חב”ד. כי – נשיא בכלל, נקרא 1ראש אלפי ישראל, הוא בחינת ראש ומוח לגביהם, וממנו היא יניקה וחיות שלהם. ועל ידי הדביקה… Read more »

gimmel tamuz
June 25, 2009 8:13 am

every word is true.

Yossi K
June 25, 2009 8:06 am

The Rebbe was very against the term “Kiruv Rechokim” – no Jew is ever far.

beverlyhillsprincess
June 25, 2009 8:04 am

LOVING IT!!!!!!

This is beautiful.
June 25, 2009 7:44 am
very nice
June 25, 2009 7:09 am

beautiful job, very nicely done!

one major mistake
June 25, 2009 6:56 am

The Rebbe understood the non frum Jew and spoke to him on his level but the Rebbe never was some of the adjectives written in this article
The author started off with a concept of the Rebbe being a man of opposites within one person which is true and also being represented and living on today by thousands of his Shluchim and followers but we still need to keep the Rebbe in context

Dovid
June 25, 2009 6:51 am

As a 30 something having grown up in CH I have always been a fierce defender of my Rebbe’s honor. It always bugged me when people put descriptors beside the Rebbe’s name because no descriptor was ever adequate. This poem is the first piece I’ve ever read that described the Rebbe yet sat comfortably with me. Not because it described the Rebbe in every way, but because it didn’t try. To the author: reading this has made me feel connected to the Rebbe today although I am not able to participate in any live farbrengen or go to the Ohel.… Read more »

Beautiful!
June 25, 2009 6:50 am

I agree wth #2

ICH
June 25, 2009 6:34 am

Very nice, but too much ‘I’

A TRUE TRIBUTE
June 25, 2009 6:17 am

Oy Rebbe, we need you!
We cant take this golus anymore!

I am so moved...
June 25, 2009 6:16 am

This is very beautiful.
Thank you

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