My Jewish Learning's reference article on the belief, held by a significant number within Chabad-Lubavitch, that the seventh rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, remains the messiah after his 1994 death and will return to complete his mission. Quotes the Rabbinical Council of America's 1996 convention resolution in full: that there is not and has never been a place in Judaism for a messiah who begins his mission, dies, and returns to complete it, a resolution that named no movement directly but was understood industry-wide as addressing Chabad messianism. My Jewish Learning is an editorially reviewed general-audience Jewish reference project of 70 Faces Media rather than a peer-reviewed academic source; the byline for this specific article was not visible on the fetched page.
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My Jewish Learning is an editorially reviewed general-audience Jewish reference site, not a peer-reviewed publication; tier three as a tradition-adjacent reference work, though its quoted 1996 RCA resolution text was independently corroborated by a separate contemporaneous news report. NotesTier 3: an editorially reviewed general-audience reference, not a peer-reviewed source. Its quotation of the 1996 RCA resolution was independently corroborated by a second, unrelated source (a Jewish news outlet's own contemporaneous report of the same convention and the same wording), so the quoted text is cross-checked even though this particular byline could not be confirmed.
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AuthorMy Jewish Learning editorial staff (byline not shown on the fetched page)
PublisherMy Jewish Learning (70 Faces Media)
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/chabad-messianism/
Source Typereference
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