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8 TAMMUZ 5754/JUNE 17, 1994

An Outpouring Of Grief
For The Lubavitcher Rebbe

Local residents remember Rabbi Schneerson
as a man of vision and humility.

JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER AND ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR

or the past few months,
Dr. Lawrence Resnick has
spent much of his time in
New York, attending to
one of his longtime pa-
tients: Rabbi Menachem
Mendel Schneerson.
Last weekend, he
didn't leave the rebbe's
bedside.
Dr. Resnick was there
Saturday night and early
Sunday morning when the
rebbe went into cardiac ar-
rest, and when he died
1:50 a.m. Sunday.
"From a medical stand-
point, everything that
could be done was," he
said.
Dr. Resnick, who moved
from New York to West Bloomfield
almost two years ago, has served for the
past 17 years as a physician to Rabbi
Schneerson. He was one of about 100
Detroiters — and tens of thousands from
throughout the world — who attended the
rebbe's funeral on Sunday.
Held under cloudy skies, the funeral
procession began at Lubavitch head-

Rabbi Chaim Bergstein of Bais Chabad of
Farmington Hills.
"This is shocking to the system," said
Rabbi Bergstein, who waited in line at the
cemetery for almost three hours to spend
a few seconds passing the rebbe's grave.
"The rebbe represented the ideals all of us
lived for.
"There was not a day or an hour when
the rebbe was not with me in my mind
I'm doing his work. I believe in his ideals
and his teachings."
Rabbi Kagan recalled the overwhelm-

quarters in Brooklyn and continued
to Queens, where the rebbe —
the seventh in a line of
Lubavitch rabbis dating back
to the 18th century — was
buried.
It was a scene those present
would describe as overwhelm-
ing: police everywhere, crowds
pushing for the chance to touch
the rebbe's coffin and press
photographers climbing walls
and gates for a shot of the buri-
al.
Dr. Resnick was a familiar
face throughout Crown
Heights before he relocated to
Hawaii, where he was sta- Miriam Shear of Oak Park with Rabbi Schneerson.
tioned with the army.
ing scene at the funeral as Chasidim fol-
He returned to Brooklyn in 1977 after lowed the coffin.
Rabbi Schneerson suffered a heart attack
"We walked aside people from England.
and requested his services.
Others were there from Israel and
Dr. Resnick has served as the rebbe's throughout the world. All were drained,
personal physician ever since.
exhausted and overcome with emotion,"
"We were friends instantly because said Rabbi Kagan.
that's the way he set up the relationship,"
Rabbi Kagan learned of the rebbe's de-
Dr. Resnick said.
teriorating condition in the middle of the
Also attending the funeral were Rabbi night Saturday.
Yitschak Kagan of the Lubavitch
Education Center in Farmington Hills and LUBAVITCHER page 24

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