And when that figure is the seventh Lubavitcher ... the rebbe without full commitment to that goal. The authors take a psycho-bio approach to Schneerson’s life, trying to get inside the man ...

A MAN PRAYS at the graveside of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, at the Old Montefiore Cemetery in New York. (credit: REUTERS/SHANNON STAPLETON) Born in 1902 in what is now ...