Editing Menachem Mendel Schneerson (section)

===Work habits===
During his decades of leadership, Schneerson worked over 18 hours a day and never took a day of vacation.<ref>Shmully Hecht, 2014/06/29. [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/opinion/sunday/remembering-rabbi-menachem-mendel-schneerson.html "Remembering Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125030222/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/opinion/sunday/remembering-rabbi-menachem-mendel-schneerson.html |date=November 25, 2020 }}. ''The New York Times''.</ref> He rarely left Brooklyn except for visits to his father-in-law's gravesite in [[Queens]], New York. Schneerson opposed retirement, seeing it as a waste of precious years.<ref>Shmuley Boteach, ''Judaism for Everyone''. Page 209. {{ISBN|0-465-00794-5}}</ref> In 1972, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, instead of announcing a retirement plan, Schneerson proposed the establishment of 71 new institutions to mark the beginning of the 71st year of his life.<ref>[http://www.chabad.org/372585/ 70 Years, 71 New Institutions], The Living Archive, March 26, 1972. Jewish Educational Media (JEM).</ref> The only other time he left Brooklyn was when he visited [[Camp Gan Israel]] [[Parksville, New York]] in 1956, 1957 and 1960.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=August 2019 |title=Third Visit to Gan Yisroel |url=https://derher.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Derher-Tammuz-5779.pdf |url-status=live |journal=A Chassidishe Derher |issue=83 |pages=6–10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230618021956/https://derher.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Derher-Tammuz-5779.pdf |archive-date=June 18, 2023}}</ref>