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Why the Big Picture of the Rebbe in your Home?
By Aron Moss
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Question:
Many thanks to you and your wife for Friday night dinner. We had a great time. I just had one question. I noticed you have a huge picture of your Rebbe, Rabbi Schneersohn, on the wall. I don't mean to be rude, but is this type of reverence for a human being appropriate?
Answer:
I do revere the Rebbe, but not because he was superhuman. On the contrary.
Here was a man that received up to one thousand letters a day and answered them all; advised concerned parents of unwell children and singles searching for life-partners with the same love and attention as he advised presidents and prime-ministers on world affairs; had the vision to set up a web of institutions around the globe in order to rebuild Judaism after the war; promoted values and morals for the non-Jewish world; was as comfortable in the sciences as he was in Torah wisdom, and found G-d in both; healed the sick with his blessings, and answered people's questions before they even asked them; took the responsibility of the world on his shoulders, but had time for every individual.
These are just a sample of his qualities. But above all this, why I revere him was because he was human. For a superhuman to achieve all the above is no big deal. They don't have to work hard to become heroes. But for a human being of flesh and blood it is nothing short of amazing.
That's why I have a picture of the Rebbe on my wall. It always reminds me of what a human can achieve, and that I can always do more to better the world.
I only saw the Rebbe once. But it is due to his influence that I am today an active and proud Jew. His teachings inspired me to become a rabbi - otherwise, who knows? I may have been a B-grade trapeze artist or struggling plumber's assistant. The very fact that I am writing these words and you are reading them is thanks to the Rebbe's vision.
From the Rebbe's teachings I have learned what G-d is. From his life I have learnt what humans can be.
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I just wannted to say to the person who made the question, the following. I thought just like you before, i asked myself the same question, i never doubted about Rebbe's wisdom and more, but my way of thinking changed very fast, just the last Tevet i went tho Crown Heights, to see how lubavitch jews lived,and i have some friends over there, so we went to theyre place. At the begining of the trip i was thinking "Why so much reverence to the Rebbe, i dont want to think bad about lubavitch jews, but this might be avoda zara, that was the first week, then i went to a yeshivah with a program and started to study the maamarim, and many books he wrote, 2 weeks later i un derstood why they have so much respect to the Rebbe, even i bought a drawing of him and all the other Rebbis. You want my recomendation: Go and have some taste of the Lubavitch life, you wont regret it!
PS: Dear reader, sorry for my bad english, its not my native language, i hope you understand.
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Actually there is a picture of Maimonides...Go to Google images and search yourself to see one.
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I have a "picture" of both the Rebbe and the Rambam (and many other tzaddikim) in my home. But since there was no photography in the Rambam's time, the picture is hardly one that moves me in the same way. I wonder if he even did look like the painting depicts (I'm sure he looked a lot more inspiring). The Rebbe's live smile and intense look in all his pictures AND him being somebody I actually met on three occasions and corresponded with on several occasions results in his picture talking to me more personally. Indeed I feel his 'absence' much more because he was here just yesterday.
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