How many of us followed the traditional story that the last Lubavitch Rebbe was childless? Today in Amazon while searching for any new release of Torah commentaries, I came across an author who made the claim of being literally the 8th Lubavitcher Rebbe, without portfolio the paste below from his facebook page is the short version of his story.
Could this possibly be true? Am I the last to hear of this? Is this a hoax? Can someone please comment. How could such a person exist without being mentioned some place in all the Chabad chatter good or bad on the net all these years.
https://www.facebook.com/youngschneerson/info/?tab=page_infoThis is the official page of rabbi/writer I.L.Schneerson (pseudonym of Issachar L. Tal van Kekem), a scion of the hassidic dynasty of Chabad-Lubavitch.
Bio
Born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in 1954 Issachar Levi was the son of a 17-year young gentile girl and the 52-year old Mendel Schneerson (the 7th Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch).
I.L. was raised by gentile fosterparents.
I.L. served in the Dutch army and afterwards worked as a police officer, until he emigrated to Israel in 1983. In Israel he worked as a labourer in a plastic factory, assistent in a kindergarten, gardener, orderpicker in an electronics warehouse, research assistent at Ben Gurion University Sdeh Boker, software tester at Orange. He also served in the reserve-forces of the Israeli army.
In 2003 I.L. returned to Holland. In 2008 he was ordained as a rabbi.
Since 2005 he has published two books on Judaism, a socially critical novel, a kabbalistic trilogy (all in Dutch), and a autobiography called 'Rabbi Kameleon' (in English). Visit
www.schneerson.org.il for more info.
I.L. is married since 1987 and has two adult children.