{"id":58898,"date":"2014-10-07T16:30:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T00:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=58898"},"modified":"2014-10-07T16:31:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T00:31:36","slug":"why-are-lubavitchers-so-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=58898","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Lubavitchers So Happy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From  Joseph Telushkin&#8217;s biography, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rebbe-Teachings-Menachem-Schneerson-Influential\/dp\/0062318985\">Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>My wife, Dvorah, often commented that whenever I spent the day researching at 770 Eastern Parkway, the generic address for the Chabad movement&#8217;s Brooklyn headquarters, I came home in an uplifted, invigorated mood. That is because Lubavitchers as a group are upbeat, a result in large part of the influence exerted upon them by the Rebbe and his teachings, even now, almost 20 years since his death. If one can make a generalization about so large a group of people as Lubavitcher Chasidim, one generalization I feel comfortable in making is that Lubavitchers exude a warm calm and optimism, they avoid negative language, and the mood they convey is contagious. I am a happier and more spiritual person as a result of writing this book&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* Failed Messiah has a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/failedmessiah.typepad.com\/failed_messiahcom\/2014\/10\/chabad-bicycle-sukkahs-345.html\">post<\/a> on Chabad mobile succah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Joseph Telushkin&#8217;s biography, Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History: My wife, Dvorah, often commented that whenever I spent the day researching at 770 Eastern Parkway, the generic address for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=58898\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chabad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58901,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58898\/revisions\/58901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}