Editing Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (section)

== Launch of Lubavitch activities in the United States ==
During the last decade of Rabbi Schneersohn's life, from 1940 to 1950, he settled in the [[Crown Heights, Brooklyn|Crown Heights]] section of [[Brooklyn]] in New York City. Rabbi Schneersohn was already physically weak and ill from his suffering at the hands of the Communists and the [[Nazism|Nazis]] and from multiple health issues including multiple sclerosis,<ref></https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/1104700/jewish/I-Have-Come-to-My-Garden.htm></ref> but he had a strong vision of rebuilding [[Orthodox Judaism]] in America, and he wanted his movement to spearhead it. To do so, he went on a building campaign to establish religious [[Jewish day school]]s and [[yeshiva]]s for boys and girls, women and men. He established printing houses for the voluminous writings and publications of his movement, and started the process of spreading Jewish observance to the Jewish masses worldwide.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

He began to teach publicly, and many came to seek out his teachings. He began gathering and sending out a small number of his newly trained rabbis to other cities - a trend later emulated and amplified by his son-in-law and successor, Rabbi [[Menachem Mendel Schneerson]].{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

In 1948, he established a Lubavitch village in the [[Land of Israel]] known as [[Kfar Chabad]] near [[Tel Aviv]], on the site of the de-populated [[Arab people|Arab]] village of [[Al-Safiriyya]].<ref name="wer"/>

He died in 1950, and was buried at Montefiore Cemetery in [[Queens]], New York City. He had no sons, and his younger son-in-law, Rabbi [[Menachem Mendel Schneerson]] ("The Rebbe") succeeded him as Lubavitcher Rebbe, while the older son-in-law, Rabbi [[Shemaryahu Gurary]] continued to run the Chabad Yeshiva network [[Tomchei Temimim]].{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

After Rabbi Schneersohn's passing, his gravesite, known as "the ''[[Ohel (Chabad)|Ohel]]''", became a central point of focus for his successor Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who would visit it regularly for many hours of prayer, meditation, and supplication for Jews all over the world.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

[[Image: אוהל הרבי מליובאוויטש - מבט מלמעלה.jpg |thumb|right|200px|Visitors to Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn Gravesite]]

[[Image: פתקים בתוך אוהל הרבי מליובאוויטש.jpg |thumb|right|200px|Letters left at gravesite]]

After his successor's passing and burial next to his father-in-law, philanthropist [[Joseph Gutnick]] of Melbourne, Australia, established the Ohel Chabad-Lubavitch Center on Francis Lewis Boulevard in [[Queens]], which is located adjacent to the joint grave site.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}