The late Lubavitcher Rebbe left an impressive, even awe-inspiring legacy. But he bears primary responsibility for the growth and endurance of a movement of false messianism. 

On view in Brooklyn: early printings of the Bible, Talmud, works of Jewish law, philosophy, mysticism, and more—plus manuscripts from before the age of print. 

Over the two decades since the death of its last leader, the Lubavitch movement has survived and flourished. What explains its success? 

Taking Judaism out into the world, the late leader of Chabad matched supreme confidence in God’s plan with activism and a shrewd instinct for political reality.

Rather than eschewing the physical, the Chabad movement aims to reveal the material world as another form of divine expression.