Lubavitcher Rebbe Applies, Logic to Explain His Philosophy of Life

(Editor's Note: Rabbi
Menachem M. Schneerson
is the world leader of the
Chabad - movement with
tens of thousands of fol-
lowers throughout t h e
world. He is the seventh
successor to the leadership
of this movement which
was founded some 150
years ago by Rabbi
Schneer Zalman of Ladi,
Russia. A graduate of the
engineering faculty of the
Paris Sorbonne, Rabbi
Schneerson was born in
1902 in Russia. In 1929 he
became the son-in-law of
Rabbi Josef Schneerson,
the former leader of the
movement who had es-
caped from Soviet Russia
after having been convict-
ed by the Soviets in 1927.
After the passing of his
father-in-law in 1950, the
engineering Rabbi succed-
ed him in the supreme
leadership of the Chabad
movement.

must be subject to order and
purpose.
The conclusion is inevitable
that since there is such law and
order in the universe, there
must be a Higher Authority
responsible for it. The analogy
is well known: When we get
hold of a printed book, of
hundreds of pages, containing a
connected story, or philosophy,
we cannot by any stretch of the

etc.) it is not hard to see that the self-bribery that goes with
a very great number of one's vanity.
actions are motivated by one's
He will thus become biased
desires and inclinations, not by in his own favor, and in his
one's intellect.
befuddled thinking will "de-
This is particularly true where vise" a "personal philosophy"
the conflict does not raise the or even a "Weltanschauung," to
immediate threat of "reprisals." fit his conduct, which will not
The farther removed the threat only "justify" it, but even turn
of sanctions, the weaker be- vice into virtue.
comes the intellectual motive,
and the more strongly is the
We never know what ripples
conduct influenced by desire of healing we set in motion by
and emotion; even more so simply smiling on one another.
when the sanctions are of an
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the case of a failure, begins to
find excuses for himself and to
justify his negative action.
Moreover, as "one transgression
brings another in its train," the
guilt complex and need for self-
justification will become ever
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more persistent and pressing,
both in order to pacify his own
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LUBAVITCHER REBBE
to square himself in the eyes
RABBI M. M. SCHNEERSON
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imagination assume that a of others. "Love covers up all
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You write that you are at a bottle of ink has been spilled offenses," particularly self-love,
loss to find answers to such and has accidentally produced and "bribery blindeth the eyes
of (even) the wise," especially
questions as: "What is the pur- the book.
pose of life? What is the mean-
Obviously, there is a Creator
ing of a Jew? And that doubts and Architect, Who arranges
and confusions are sorely afflict- and relates all the various parts
ing you.
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B. A. Henry is the pen-name
of a retired business and finan-
cier who is active in Jewish
communal work in New York.
He has written a number af
short stories, and his second
book, "The Gutenheim Way," a
novel published by Thomas
Yoseloff (11 E. 36, N. Y.
describes the activities and at-
titudes of families who have
become assimilated and who
were brought back to Jewish
consciousness during the Hitler
era.
The Gutenheims are smug, as
are their friends. They ride in
expensive cars driven by chauf-
feurs. Their concerns over Jew-
ish matters are minimal. They
are awakened by the Nazi ter-
rors.
Even the love story is an
awakening. The heroine leaves
her husband who does not want
any children. But when he re-
turns, as a foreign correspond-
ent, to tell of the Hitler ac-
tivities and their threats to
Jews, they are reunited and
there is an agreement that
there are to be offsprings.
Until the final chapter, when
the Nazi threats enter into the
tale, the reader will wonder
why the cast of characters
should even be referred to as
Jews. Their stiffness and smug-
ness irritates. The concluding
developments rescue the ;novel
from its earlier boresomeness.

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B. A. Henry's Novel
About Smug People

