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Menacham Mendel Schneerson
Who’s Your Messiah?
“If you believe that a dead man is the messiah, does that disqualify you from converting to Judaism?”
That’s the question raised in a Jerusalem Post article about an immigrant from the former Soviet Union who came to Israel under its Law of Return and was interested in converting to Judaism. While the rabbis were impressed with his religious observance, the problem came when they started asking him questions prompted by his affiliation with the Chabad Hasidic sect, which tends toward the belief that its late rebbe is the messiah.
The Post reports:
