Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Schneersons & Schachter-Shalomi

Schneur Zalman of NY comments to the Chasid Bobuv B'nusach Chabad post:

By the way you guys have forgotten Rav Zalman Shneerson's most famous mekurov in Paris, that is Rabbi Dr. Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. Reb Meshullom Zalman Schachter was a teenage refugee from Vienna lost in Antwerp and Paris where he met people who introduced him to Zalman Schneerson. He taught him chassiduth Chabad and through him met Rabbi Mendel Schneerson the future Lubavitcher Rebbe also in Paris at the same time. Reb Zalman Schachter wrote a wonderful piece called HOW TO BECOME A MODERN HASID in the early 1960's in JEWISH CURRENTS. There he briefly notes this story.

Congratulations to Schneur Zalman of NY who joins Berl of Crown Heights with a Mental Block Award for the 100th comment in a thread.