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=== Chabad rabbi === In 1948, along with Rabbi [[Shlomo Carlebach]], Schachter was sent out to speak on college campuses by the now Lubavitcher Rebbe [[Menachem Mendel Schneerson]] as one of the first [[schluchim]].<ref name="Magid2019">{{cite web |last1=Magid |first1=Shaul |title=Another Side of the Lubavitcher Rebbe |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/another-side-of-the-lubavitcher-rebbe |website=Tablet Magazine |date=July 3, 2019 |quote=Schneerson['s] true acolyte, the one who most accurately and deeply absorbed and disseminated his message, was someone who left Chabad behind: Zalman Schachter-Shalomi... Upon his arrival in America, Schachter-Shalomi became a disciple of R. Yosef Yitzhak Schneersohn (1880-1950) the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, and subsequently of his son-in-law R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson... Schachter-Shalomi served as one of the first Chabad shelukhim in 1948, sent by the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe to "infiltrate" a Hanukkah party at the newly opened Brandeis University with a young student from the Lakewood yeshiva named Shlomo Carlebach. He subsequently left to found his own "mystical revision" and "social reform" movement founded in large part on the principles of his youth in Chabad, revised to answer what he understood to be the changing paradigm of a post-Holocaust world. Once asked about his ties to Chabad, Schachter-Shalomi responded, βI graduated from Chabad.β...}}</ref> In 1958, Schachter privately published what may have been the first English book on [[Jewish meditation]]. It was later reprinted in ''[[Michael Strassfeld#Jewish Catalog|The Jewish Catalog]]'', and was read by a generation of Jews as well as some [[Christian mysticism|Christian contemplatives]].<ref name=Renewalist/> Schachter left the Lubavitcher movement after experimenting with "the sacramental value of [[Lysergic acid diethylamide|lysergic acid]]" from 1962.<ref>Mittleman, Alan; Sarna, Jonathan; Licht, Robert: "Jewish Polity and American Civil Society. p. 365. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2002 {{ISBN|0-7425-2122-2}}</ref><ref name="bostonglobe.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2014/07/16/rabbi-zalman-schachter-shalomi-jewish-pioneer-dies/CrmT9HBtIHCKjtT2bKV7uJ/story.html|title=Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Jewish pioneer, dies at 89|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=July 16, 2014}}</ref> With the subsequent rise of the [[hippie]] movement in the 1960s, and exposure to Christian mysticism, he moved away from the Chabad lifestyle.<ref name="bostonglobe.com"/>
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