[[Image:The Rebbe.jpg|thumb|Rabbi M.M. Schneerson]]

[[Rabbi]] '''Menachem Mendel Schneerson''' ([[April 18]], [[1902]] – [[June 12]], [[1994]]), referred to by his followers as '''The Rebbe''', was a prominent [[Haredi Judaism|Charedi (traditional Orthodox)]] ~~[[Jew]]ish [[~~Jewish rabbi]] who was the seventh ''[[Rebbe]]'' (spiritual leader) of the [[Chabad Lubavitch|Chabad/Lubavitch]] branch of [[Chassidic Judaism]]. He was fifth in a direct paternal line to the third Chabad/Lubavitch ''Rebbe,'' Rabbi [[Menachem Mendel Schneersohn]] (known as the ''Tzemach Tzedek''), his namesake.

In [[1950]], upon the death of his predecessor, father-in-law and cousin Rabbi [[Joseph Isaac Schneersohn]] (Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn), known as the "Previous Rebbe" or ''Rebbe Rayat"z'' (an acronym of his name), Rabbi Menachem Mendel assumed the leadership of ''Chabad/Lubavitch''. He led the movement until his passing in 1994, greatly expanding its worldwide activities and founding a network of institutions of Jewish study and [[Torah]] outreach. He raised the issue of Jewish messianism to the forefront of the Jewish world, and was hailed by some Lubavitchers during his lifetime as the long awaited [[mashiach]] (messiah). He had no children, but his legacy remains with over 2,600 institutions he initiated throughout his lifetime.

==View on Noahides==

:''Main article [[Judaism and Other Religions]]''

What ~~I am labeling~~ Rabbi Alan Brill labels the “dualistic” variety of the exclusivist position is really the counterpart to the “metaphysical” variant of inclusivism described above. Here too the real realm of action is not this world, with individual people and nations, but the metaphysical realm of primal and cosmic forces. In this schema, Israel represents cosmic good; the nations represent the primal evil. And while this trend tends to reject philosophy as universal, it should not be considered in accord with the mainstream Kabbalah of Gikkitila or Cordovero.

====Rabbi Isaac Luria====

Nevertheless, this dualistic statement was transformed by later generations of Chabad thinkers into a historical inclusivism, in which the gentiles today are part of the messianic progress; or into a hierarchal inclusivism, in which the gentiles have greater needs to purify themselves.[17]

====~~Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn~~Bringing Hasidism to the gentiles of America====

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn ~~(1902-1984)~~, the seventh leader of Chabad Hasidism, armed with a messianic sense of current era, wanted to bring Hasidism even to the gentiles of America. He does not need to rewrite the offensive text because, for him, since times have changed, the text does not apply. All gentiles are now seen as capable of appreciating the Divine light of Torah. He was also in favor of school prayer and acknowledged the Christian and civil religion of America as a necessary moral force. In some of his homilies he even invokes "in God we trust" printed on United States currency as showing that we share one God.

:The "spreading of the wellsprings" of Chassidic teachings should not be limited to Jews alone, but should be extended outward to non-Jews as well. As [Maimonides] states, the purpose of giving the Torah was to bring peace to the world (Mishneh Torah, Laws of Chanukah 4:14). Similarly, he writes that every Jew is obliged to try and influence those who are not Jewish to fulfill the Seven Laws of Noah. Maimonides also states that one of the achievements of the Messiah will be to spiritually refine and elevate the nations of the world until they, too, become aware of God to the point where Godliness will be revealed to every flesh, non-Jews.

It was important to take the trouble to present these rereading, even though many modern Jews do not have an interest in Hasidic doctrine, in order to show that even seemingly impossible to reread texts can be reread, even by conservative thinkers.

====Forcing Adherence====

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