​The Zohar teaches that “A tzadik who departs is to be found in all worlds more than in his life-time.” Famed Chassidic Master, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, notes that this includes the physical world. The tzadik’s departure, that is, relates only to the direct experience of him through our empirical senses. We no longer see his loving smile, hear his holy word, kiss his blessed hand. But the Tzadik’s impact on the terrestrial world and on those who flock to his hallowed resting place is greater than during his life time. Free of his corporeal limitations, the tzadik graces us with the full impact of his spiritual energies, imparting to us the love and fear of G-d, and showering us with abundant blessing and extraordinary miracles.

In the two and a half decades since the “departure” of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, numerous individuals around the globe have had their lives touched by the Rebbe in extraordinary ways.