Second Schneerson Will Boding Ill for Top Aides
NEW YORK -- In what may prove to be a devastating blow to the fortunes of two of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe's closest aides, a second, secret will left by the Rebbe has emerged that names a previously obscure rabbi as the top administrator of the Lubavitch movement.
There's just one problem -- for reasons still unclear, the Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, never signed the will, a copy of which was obtained by the Forward. Even though the Rebbe didn't sign the 1988 document, any writings believed to come from the Rebbe himself are sure to be taken seriously by his thousands of followers, Crown Heights rabbis say.
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Battle Among Lubavitch Erupts Over Rebbe's Will
NEW YORK -- Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, the chauffeur-turned-Richelieu of the court of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, appears to be doing a masterful job of outmaneuvering his rivals as he asserts day-to-day control of his late master's empire -- and cracks down on Lubavitch's still-potent Messianic faction.
Less than 72 hours after the death of the Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the streets of Crown Heights were buzzing with talk of the Rebbe's will, which was read Tuesday night to a crowd of thousands of Chasidim at Lubavitcher headquarters. The talk centered not so much on the will itself, but on Rabbi Krinsky, the man designated by the Rebbe as executor of his estate, and on the rabbis who witnessed its 1988 signing -- most importantly, Rabbi Leib Groner, Rabbi Krinsky's rival in the Rebbe's fractured secretariat. Chasidim see the Rebbe's deft hand at work in the will's construction: By having Rabbi Groner as witness, Lubavitcher insiders say, the Rebbe forestalled any challenge to Rabbi Krinsky's bona fides as executor.
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