CONTENTS
· FORWARD
· ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
· AUTHOR'S PREFACE
· INTRODUCTION: – Difficulties with the Proposed Study – Expositional Difficulties – Accessing Material and Information – A Complex Issue – Messianism and Succession
PART ONE: HISTORY
1. HISTORICAL CONTEXT: – The Beginnings of Hasidism – The Ba'al Shem Tov – The Maggid of Mezritch – After the Maggid – The Emergence of the Habad Movement
2. THE IDEAL OF THE ZADDIK: – The Concept of the Zaddik - Social Functions of the Zaddik – The Idea of the Zaddik in Habad – The Rebbe-Hasid Relationship – The Rebbe-Hasid Financial Relationship
3. HABAD IN AMERICA: – Rabbi Dov Ber, the Fifth Rebbe – Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak, the Sixth Rebbe – Location as a form of Movement-building – Crown Heights
4. SCHNEERSON'S PRE-REBBE LIFE: – The Problem of Sources – Early Life – The United States
5. SCHNEERSON'S SUCCESSION
PART TWO: CONSOLIDATION
6. TRANSITIONAL CONSOLIDATION: – Authority by Virtue of Office as Rebbe – Hasidic Discourses: Consolidation of Public Life
7. CONSOLIDATION THROUGH RITUAL: – The Farbrengen – Yehidut – Letters from Schneerson – 'Dollars' – Other Rituals
8. LEADERSHIP QUALITIES: – Schneerson's Style – Peculiarities of Personality – Personal Contact – Consolidation Through Charisma – The Appearance of Suffering – Other Personal Characteristics – Scholarship
9. THE IDEOLOGY OF MESSIANISM: – The Ideology of Redemption – The Importance of Messianism – The Effects of Messianism on Consolidation – Messianism as a Motivational Device – Schneerson as a Prophet – Schneerson as the Mashiach – Trying to be the Mashiach – Messianic Vacillation – Isolation and Messianism
10. Schneerson as a World Leader: – The Turning Point in Consolidation – A Jewish Leader – Modern Orthodoxy – Sephardi Jewry – Russian Jewry – Other Hasidic Groups – The Mitnagdim – Religious Zionism – Israeli Personalities – Beyond the Jewish World – The Laws of Noah – Schneerson and World Politics
11. HABAD HASIDISM AND ZIONISM: – Coincidental Timing? – Opposition to Zionism – Zionist Influences on Schneerson – The Six-Day War and After – Never Set Foot in the Holy Land
PART THREE: THE INSTITUTIONS
12. INITIAL CONSOLIDATION: – Introduction – Success of Institutions – Employment – A War Economy – Institutions and the Dissipation of Opposition – Fundraising – The Negative Effects of Fundraising
13. CONSOLIDATION OF LOCAL AUTHORITY: – The New Rebbe – The Postwar Period – Challenge and Response: The 1970s and After – Had Schneerson Relocated – Crown Heights: Religious Significance
14. ADMINISTRATION AND BUREAUCRACY: – The Rebbe as 'Chief-of-State' – Schneerson's Administrative Qualities – Delegation of Authority – Aides, Secretaries and Assistants – The School of Assistants – The Bureaucratic Hierarchy – The Last Years – The Relationship between Power and Discipleship
15. COMMUNITY SERVICES: – The 'Outreach' Concept – Campus Outreach – Synagogues – Ba'alei Teshuvah – Emissaries – Public Relations – Modern Technology – The Drawbacks of Outreach – The Habad Yeshivah System – The Habad House – Other Organisations
16. PUBLISHING HOUSES AND LIBRARIES: – Dissemination through Publication – The AGUCH Collection – The Merkaz Library – Community Libraries
17. WOMEN'S AND YOUTH ORGANISATIONS: – The Role of Women – The Influences on Schneerson – Women's Initiatives – The Family – A 'Fresh Approach' – Educational Contributions – Youth Organisation: The Principle – Symbolism of the Organisation – The Growth of Zivot Hashem – The Effects on Consolidation – Transfer Symbolism
PART FOUR: THE SUCCESSION
18. THE ISSUE OF SUCCESSION: – The Passing of the Rebbe – What is Transfer? – When Does Transfer Occur? – The Need for Succession – The Difficulty of Succession: Unrivalled Personality; Ideological Prism; No Evident Replacement; An Extreme But Active Minority
19. SCHNEERSON'S INTENTIONS: – The Question of Intention – Yosef Yitzhak as the Rebbe – Schneerson's Transfer of Authority – Cultivation of Independent Leadership – The Aides – Legal Transfer – The Beit Din
20. INSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY: – The 'Collective Leadership' Model – The First Will – The Second Will – The Institutions
21. OTHER MODELS OF SUCCESSION: – The 'No Succession' Model – The 'Fiefdom' Model – The 'Slow Succession' Model – The 'Mission' Model – The 'Ghost' Model – Gravesite Culture – The 'Normalisation' Model – Habad Fallout – The Habad Periphery: Heretics, the Disenchanted and Neo-Habadnikim
22. FACTORS OF INFLUENCE ON SUCCESSION: WHAT'S NEXT?: – The Hasidic Groupings – The International Communities – The Youth: A New Constituency – The Ba'al Teshuvah Movement – From Local Particularism to Universal Mission
· aFTERWORD
· Glossary of Terms
· People, Abbreviations and Acronyms
· Bibliography
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