The Messiah of
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Introduction : - difficulties with the proposed study - expositional difficulties - accessing material and information - a complex issue - messianism and succession | ||
1 | Historical context : - the beginnings of Hasidism - the Ba'al Shem Tov - the Maggid of Mezritch - after the Maggid - the emergence of the Habad movement | 3 |
2 | The ideal of the zaddik : - the concept of the zaddik - social functions of the zaddik - the idea of the zaddik in Habad - the Rebbe/Hasid relationship - the Rebbe/Hasid financial relationship | 12 |
3 | Habad in America : - Rabbi Dov Ber, the fifth Rebbe - Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak, the sixth Rebbe - location as a form of movement-building - Crown Heights | 24 |
4 | Schneerson's pre-Rebbe life : - the problem of sources - early life - the United States | 34 |
5 | Schneerson's succession | 43 |
6 | Transitional consolidation : - authority by virtue of office as Rebbe - Hasidic discourses : consolidation of public life | 51 |
7 | Consolidation through ritual : - the Farbrengen - Yehidut - letters from Schneerson - "dollars" - other rituals | 57 |
8 | Leadership qualities : - Schneerson's style - peculiarities of personality - personal contact - consolidation through charisma - the appearance of suffering - other personal characteristics - scholarship | 70 |
9 | The ideology of messianism : - the ideology of redemption - the importance of messianism - the effects of messianism on consolidation - messianism as a motivational device - Schneerson as a prophet Schneerson as the Mashiach - trying to be the Mashiach - messianic vacillation - isolation and messianism | 81 |
10 | Schneerson as a world leader : - the turning point in consolidation - a Jewish leader - modern orthodoxy - Sephardi Jewry - Russian Jewry - other Hasidic groups - the Mitnagdim - religious Zionism - Israeli personalities - beyond the Jewish world - the laws of Noah - Schneerson and world politics | 95 |
11 | Habad Zionism and Zionism : - coincidental timing? - opposition to Zionism - Zionist influences on Schneerson - the Six-Day War and after - never set foot in the Holy Land | 111 |
12 | Initial consolidation : - introduction - success of institutions - employment - a war economy - institutions and the dissipation of opposition - fundraising - the negative effects of fundraising | 125 |
13 | Consolidation of local authority : - the new Rebbe - the postwar period - challenge and response : the 1970s and after - what if Schneerson had relocated? - Crown Heights : religious significance | 137 |
14 | Administration and bureaucracy : - the Rebbe as "chief of state" - Schneerson's administrative qualities - delegation of authority - aides, secretaries, and assistants - the school of assistants - the bureaucratic hierarchy - the last years - the relationship between power and discipleship | 148 |
15 | Community services : - the outreach concept - campus outreach - synagogues - Ba'alei Teshuvah - emissaries - public relations - modern technology - the drawbacks of outreach - the Habad Yeshiva system - the Habad house - other organizations | 166 |
16 | Publishing houses and libraries : - dissemination through publication - the AGUCH collection - the Merkaz library - community libraries | 189 |
17 | Women's and youth organizations : - the role of women - the influences on Schneerson - women's initiatives - the family - a "fresh approach" - educational contributions - youth organization : the principle - symbolism of the organization - the growth of Zivot Hashem - the effects on consolidation - transfer symbolism | 197 |
18 | The issue of succession : - the passing of the Rebbe - what is transfer? - when does transfer occur? - the need for succession - the difficulty of succession - unrivaled personality - ideological prism - no obvious replacement - an extreme but active minority | 215 |
19 | Schneerson's intentions : - the question of intention - Yosef Yitzhak as the Rebbe - Schneerson's transfer of authority - cultivation of independent leadership - the aides - legal transfer - the Beit Din | 232 |
20 | Institutional authority : - the collective leadership model - the first will - the second will - the institutions | 246 |
21 | Other models of succession : - the no succession model - the fiefdom model - the slow succession model - the mission model - the ghost model - gravesite culture - the normalization model - Habad fallout - the Habad periphery : heretics, the disenchanted, and neo-Habadnikim | 254 |
22 | Factors of influence on succession : what's next? - the hasidic groupings - the international communities - the youth : a new constituency - the Ba'al Teshuvah movement - from local particularism to universal mission | 275 |
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