742 – Ἡ Ἀμερικὴ ὡς ἱερὰ γῆ τοῦ Ἰσραήλ

Ἡ Εὐρώπη ἵδρυσε τὸ Ἰσραήλ, τὸ 1948, στὸν ΚΘ’καὶ Κ΄ αἰῶνα, μέσῳ τοῦ Θεοδώρου Χέρτζλ. Ἡ Ἀμερικὴ τὸ ἐπέβαλε ὡς πλανητικὴ παρουσία μετὰ τὸν δεύτερο παγκόσμιο πόλεμο.

The S.S. Serpa Pinto carried thousands of Jewish refugees from the Holocaust to safety, including the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson and Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson in 1941
«America, the “New World,” is just as close to God, just as integral to the divine plan, as is the Holy Land of Israel».

«Inspiring the Jewish American Revolution

«After narrowly escaping the Nazi onslaught in France, the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994), and his wife, Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson (1901-1988), arrived to the United States of America on the 28th day of the Jewish month of Sivan in the year 5701 (1941).

«Seven decades ago the center of world Jewry in Europe was in the midst of being destroyed. Mass murder by the Germans was the norm, targeted against Jews of all backgrounds and nationalities, who were executed on the streets and gassed in concentration camps.

«Jewish life and tradition were on the brink of annihilation. But as they tried to escape, the Holocaust’s victims faced the doors of the world slammed shut. Immigration quotas filled up quickly, and the global community of nations expressed little interest in helping the masses of European Jews find refuge.

«The Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe appointed his newly arrived son-in-law to head the social and educational outreach programs of Chabad-Lubavitch. Thus began the Rebbe’s decades-long revolutionary work to revitalize Jewish life in the Western Hemisphere and across the globe.

«While Eastern Europe would remain the center of Jewish life for another one hundred and fifty years, by the end of the nineteenth century a series of migrationary waves were already underway. Between 1880 and 1924 some two million Eastern European Jews settled in the United States, and in the aftermath of the Holocaust it would emerge as the world’s largest center of Jewish life.

«Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (“the Rayatz,” 1880-1950)—would spend ten months visiting Jewish communities in the United States, from September 1929 to July 1930, during which he also met with President Herbert Hoover at the White House.

«Rabbi leader Menachem M. Schneerson (“the Rebbe,” 1902-1994), insisted that “the completion of the revelation of the Torah, and of the innerness of the Torah,” is to be achieved in this era, the American era; the era in which we reveal that there is no place that is not central to Torah’s vision, that—in truth—there is nothing “outside” of the singular being of God; the era in which the “outside” too becomes a beacon of divine luminosity.

«Excerpts of Rabbi Schneur Zalman’s discourse on the status of America were first published in the form of a letter addressed by the Rayatz to his son-in-law—and eventual successor as Chabad’s leader—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson (“the Rebbe,” 1902-1994).

«Although Rayatz considered settling in America, in the end he decided to make his new home in Poland, and it was from there that he set about strengthening and expanding the network of Chabad institutions. Yet, at the very same time, he was preparing his successor for the “different manner of service, requiring a greater degree of potency,” which would turn America into a new center of international Torah dissemination». (Chabad.org & The Rebbe.org).