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A Celebration of Continued Life

For Rabbi Shmuly Altein, OBM — niftar on Gimmel Tammuz 5786.

Friday afternoon, a few hundred feet from where the Rebbe is buried at Old Montefiore Cemetery, we buried my cousin Shmuly Altein. Minutes after the burial, the screen at the Ohel showed the Rebbe mid-sentence: "When a person passes on the soul does not, Heaven forbid, lose its existence, the soul is eternal." The talk was given in 1983. The year Shmuly was born…

Zalmi Duchman · June 22, 2026Read the full essay →