Death and Burial
Schneerson died at the Beth Israel Medical Center on June 12, 1994 (3 Tammuz 5754) and was buried at the Ohel next to his teacher and father-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, at Montefiore Cemetery in Queens, New York, in 1994. The Ohel had been built around the previous Rebbe's grave in 1950.
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Famous quotes containing the words death and, death and/or burial:
“Death and life were not
Till man made up the whole,
Made lock, stock and barrel
Out of his bitter soul,”
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For men to take their exits.”
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