Rabbi David Eliezrie's The Secret Of Chabad

Rabbi David Eliezrie’s new book, The Secret of Chabad, has been a labor of love, taking ten years to research and write. Publishing company, The Toby Press, previously printed the award-winning, The Prime Ministers, by Yehuda Avner. Avner’s book was expansive and mesmerizing in its depiction of the drama and the dialogue of the leaders of Israel. Now, Toby Press have another gem. Eliezrie’s book is a sweeping tome that runs 350 pages, with an additional 80 pages of footnotes. Hidden within is a personal and detailed account of the practical elements that have paved the success of Chabad.
With the 1994 passing of the Rebbe, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, there was talk of the Chabad network collapsing but the legacy of the Rebbe went far

The book describes the growth to date with the growth of Chabad’s relationship with leaders and politicians, both local and national, a dedication to the smallest communities and the rebirth of Russian Jewry. Meanwhile, there is a massive investment in yeshivas and Jewish schools across a breadth of communities, in more than 80 countries worldwide. A 2009 census of Jewish schools in America reported 73 Chabad schools and the number has grown. Eliezrie writes, “In European countries, 25 percent of the rabbis are Chabad.” In the footnotes he expands, “In Hungary, Chabad rabbis are 85 percent, Holland, 80 percent, Austria 50 percent, Italy 50 percent, Britain, 25 percent, France 25

He shares just two stories of prophecy, including the Rebbe’s accurate prophecy that Gorbachov’s policies of glasnost and perestroika would end the era of Russian antisemitism.
A strong theme of the book is the explanation of the path of Russian Chassidism whose, “bond to Israel goes back to the very genesis of the Chabad Movement.” Chabad was birthed as a Jewish movement that would heal the global problems of world Jewry while simultaneously educating Rabbis to the highest level. It was way back in 1778 that funding from Russian Jews created the oldest charitable organization in Israel which is just as vibrant today. The Colel Chabad that was started more than 200 years ago has ballooned into a network of institutions that provides meaningful social programs in 60 Israeli