as the leader of the generation, then who do they accept?
“Want to feel awe? Read the worlds of King David in psalms. They train you to feel the creators greatness, closeness, and your place.”
After Moses, leadership didn’t disappear. It’s the rabbi whose teachings are guiding the most Jewish people toward real relationship with the Creator.
I think the Lubavitcher Rebbe is the leader of the generation, his teachings, published through 70,000+ pages, still guide people today, just like Moses still leads through his Torah.
The shift began with the previous Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, in the early 1900s, bringing Chassidus outward and reaching every Jew, and risking his life to support their spiritual survival.
The 7th Rebbe accepted that leadership in 1951 and expanded it. By around 1987, after litigation, he said the mission was successful, acting as an extension of Moses in guiding the generation.
In the United States alone, a 2021 study by Pew Research Center found that 38% of Jewish adults — about 2.2 million people — have engaged with a Chabad-Lubavitch center or event (digitally it is much higher). Chabad Chassidus, beginning with the Tanya, explains how a real relationship with the Creator begins:
You build awe, through thinking about His greatness and noticing He is good, awe is a mix of sadness (distance), fear (responsibility), and wonder (vastness).
A practical way to feel that awe is through the words of King David in Psalms, they train you to feel the Creator’s greatness, closeness, and your place in the relationship.
That awe allows joy to be felt.
Without joy, distance grows, like a child pulling away from a parent. But the Creator built a world where this, joy, doesn’t happen automatically. You have to choose it, beginning with choosing to meditate. And even that relationship isn’t enough.
To live with real goodness and kindness, you need inner strength, which grows through deeper Torah learning, especially Chassidus. So the question becomes simple:
Whose teachings are reaching the most people and helping them return to real relationship with the Creator?
If no one is named, it usually means the idea of leadership is being avoided, not clarified. And avoiding that question doesn’t help people find real guidance.
The Rebbe also emphasized that increasing in joy helps bring the Messianic era closer, (it’s simple) because joy reflects a stable, real relationship with the Creator.
Today, it’s even more clear, his teachings are still guiding the most Jewish people toward real relationship with the Creator.
