Editing Menachem Mendel Schneerson (section)

==Criticism==
From the 1970s onwards, [[Elazar Shach]] of the [[Ponevezh Yeshiva]] in [[Bnei Brak]] was publicly critical of Schneerson,<ref>See ''Mechtavim v'Ma'amorim'' [Letters and Speeches of Rabbi Shach in Hebrew. Bnei Brak, Israel. 03-574-5006]: Volume 1, Letter 6 (page 15), Letter 8 (page 19). Volume 3, Statements on pages 100–101, Letter on page 102. Volume 4, letter 349(page 69), letter 351 (page 71). Volume 5, letter 533 (page 137), letter 535 (page 139), speech 569 (page 173), statement 570 (page 174). See also here: {{cite web|url=http://hamercaz.com/hamercaz/pics/database/aoi/223_myFile.pdf |title=על המסיתים להתגרות באומות ועל לשונות העוקרים את ה"אני מאמין" בביאת המשיח |language=Hebrew |access-date=March 5, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305072110/http://hamercaz.com/hamercaz/pics/database/aoi/223_myFile.pdf |archive-date=March 5, 2009 }}</ref> accusing him of creating a cult of crypto-messianism around himself.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20011110/ai_n14431755|title=Independent, The (London), November 10, 2001 by David Landau.}}</ref><ref name="Hadden1992">{{cite magazine|author=Lisa Beyer|magazine=Time|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,975127,00.html|title=Expecting The Messiah|volume=139|date=March 23, 1992|page=42|quote=Eliezer Schach, one of Israel's leading ultra-Orthodox rabbis, has publicly called Schneerson "insane," an "infidel" and "a false Messiah." The local papers carried Schach's outrageous charge that Schneerson's followers are "eaters of trayf," food such as pork that is forbidden to Jews.|access-date=November 19, 2021|archive-date=November 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119173317/http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,975127,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Shach objected to Schneerson’s calling upon the Messiah to appear and eventually called for a boycott of Chabad and its institutions.<ref name="Fate pg. 340">Faith and Fate: The Story of the Jewish People in the 20th century, Berel Wein, 2001 by Shaar Press, p. 340</ref> Though Schneerson never responded publicly to Shach's attacks, he did rebuke those who disparaged (religious and non-religious) Jews and for bringing division among them in apparent response to Shach, explaining that "every Jew, regardless of differences and levels of observances, is part of Am Echad", the unified Jewish people.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |title=Lubavitcher Rebbe Speaks out Against Rabbi Schach's Message |url=https://www.jta.org/1990/04/04/archive/lubavitcher-rebbe-speaks-out-against-rabbi-schachs-message |publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=April 4, 1990 |access-date=May 12, 2021 |archive-date=May 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512234156/https://www.jta.org/1990/04/04/archive/lubavitcher-rebbe-speaks-out-against-rabbi-schachs-message |url-status=live }}</ref>