{"id":517,"date":"2007-06-19T16:36:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T13:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2007\/06\/19\/is-this-guy-the-messiah\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T16:36:48","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T13:36:48","slug":"is-this-guy-the-messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/is-this-guy-the-messiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This Guy the Messiah?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>True, he&#8217;s dead, but still millions of people believe that he is (or was) the Messiah.&nbsp; My acquaintance with the movement began in the mid-90s when I worked (as a temporary employee) <a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IsThisGuytheMessiah_E6C2\/image.png\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 5px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"240\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IsThisGuytheMessiah_E6C2\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"187\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\"><\/a>for the Chabad (Lubavitch) offices in L.A.&nbsp; The Rebbe had recently passed away and the movement was trying to cope with his death (and lack of resurrection).&nbsp; Today they celebrate the thirteenth anniversary of his passing and the movement is still flourishing, though the debate of his Messiahship has not been settled. <\/p>\n<p>Arutz-7 has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/122801\">interesting article<\/a> about Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (&#8220;one of the world&#8217;s greatest Jews&#8221;), including several &#8220;remarkable&#8221; stories of his abilities.&nbsp; Read the one about the mezuzah and see if you are impressed; I was not.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/122801\">Arutz-7 story<\/a> is on the long side, but I think this is an important subject, given that <strong>over a million<\/strong> followers of Chabad.&nbsp; You can read more at Wikipedia on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chabad\">Chabad<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Menachem_Mendel_Schneerson\">possible Messiah<\/a> himself.<\/p>\n<p>I certainly don&#8217;t have the genius of this man, nor the followers, and no one would ever think I&#8217;m the Messiah, but I do have this over him: I&#8217;ve been to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Menachem_Mendel_Schneerson#Israel\">Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IsThisGuytheMessiah_E6C2\/image_3.png\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IsThisGuytheMessiah_E6C2\/image_thumb_3.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True, he&#8217;s dead, but still millions of people believe that he is (or was) the Messiah.&nbsp; My acquaintance with the movement began in the mid-90s when I worked (as a temporary employee) for the Chabad (Lubavitch) offices in L.A.&nbsp; The Rebbe had recently passed away and the movement was trying to cope with his death\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/is-this-guy-the-messiah\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}