The Foxes walk upon it

"And at the same time they will come to understand and see that it is the Rebbe who runs this world, until he comes to take us out of galus."

The author of the above statement is one Rabbi Boruch Shalom Cunin. Rabbi Cunin was personally appointed shaliach to the West Coast of the United States by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the late leader of the Lubavitch movement.This statement is astonishing in its sadness and terrifying in its explicitness.

I would like to contrast this statement to one of Zecharia that many have the minhag of saying at the end of the Aleinu.

ט והיה יהוה למלך, על-כל-הארץ; ביום ההוא, יהיה יהוה אחד--ושמו אחד.
"And it will be that the Lrd is King over all the Land, on that day he and his name will be unified"
This is the idea of Yimos Hamashiach according to Zechariah . It is a period of time when the entire world recognizes the reality of the Kingship of G and serves him accordingly. His name and He will be unified, in other words the entire world will desire to serve only the true conception of G. No longer will man serve the desires of his heart nor the lusts of his eyes. Currently there are those that serve G and those that serve a distorted notion of G, I believe that the unification at the end of the pasuk refers to an era when there will be no more distortions of the real Name of G and everyone will serve the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

The statement of Rabbi Cunin is disturbing in its fundamental denial of G and its sheer brazenness. What Rabbi Cunin is saying has reached a new pinnacle in heresy. " At the same time", similar phraseology as Zecharia, Cunin is longing for the day when," they will come to understand", presumably he means the world, this would I suppose include those who accept the 13 Ikkarim," that it is the Rebbe who runs the world until he comes to take us out of Galus".

Rabbi Cunin has replaced G with the Rebbe, he longs for the day that mankind will pervert themselves into believing that Menachem Mendel Schneerson is G, and at that time the Rebbi will return and save Rabbi Cunin from Galus.


So it is quite clear. The G of Israel is not the G of Rabbi Cunin. This is sad enough. It is a tragedy that one person has a faulty idea but this tragedy is magnified when we consider who he is. Rabbi Cunin is in the position to influence thousands upon thousands of Jews via his work as the head of Chabad in California and Nevada. This is the real tragedy, not only does Rabbi Cunin believe the most despicable of beliefs but he is a teacher and advisor to thousands of Jews. I do not know if Rabbi Cunin is alone in his belief, I pray that he is although I suspect he is not. This makes a clear statement about his movement however. Any movement that will allow one of its leaders to harbor these ideas is clearly not dedicated to the ikkarim. The presence of what would seem like authentic Jewish leaders declaring these perversions is the real tragedy of our time.

The crown is fallen from our head; woe unto us! for we have sinned.For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim;For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.