The Rebbe on Why No Burial at Sea

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Longtime Lubavitch Youth Leader Passes Away
Rabbi Dovid Raskin, 84
By Dovid Zaklikowski
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Rabbi Dovid Raskin, an immigrant from the Soviet Union who, as chairman of the Lubavitch Youth Organization, spearheaded many educational campaigns instituted by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, passed away Tuesday at the age of 84.

Arriving, to New York, just two weeks before the passing of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, Raskin brought his penchant for communal activism with him from the Soviet Union.

"He was always very active from the time he was an older student in the Lubavitch underground school system in Uzbekistan," said Rabbi Shlomo Zarchi, a relative and co-worker in the Lubavitch Rabbinical Seminary.

In Brooklyn, Raskin organized Chasidic gatherings of students presided over by an elderly mentor sharing words of wisdom. On one particular occasion in the year between the passing of the Sixth Rebbe and his successor's public acceptance of leadership, the Rebbe addressed the gathering, saying in Yiddish that "everyone needs to invest in their personal growth, and in addition, everyone needs to influence at least one other individual."

The concept of influencing individuals was revolutionary to Raskin and the other students, as until that time, Lubavitch outreach on the whole had been focused on creating educational institutions and publications.

"When there is a fire, no one makes calculations," the Rebbe explained, pointing to the assimilation rampant among Jewish communities in the United States as necessitating radical approaches to outreach.

Half a year later, this time speaking to a wider audience, the Rebbe encouraged everyone to have a direct influence on at least 10 Jews.

"Every individual is an entire world," the Rebbe stressed.

Raskin took the message to heart; during inspirational gatherings with his students, he would emphasize that after their regular study time, they should try to influence as many Jews as possible.

In 1955, Raskin joined the board of the Lubavitch Youth Organization, a nascent body whose mandate was to bolster spiritual activities within the Lubavitch and wider Jewish communities. A founding member, he later was appointed as its chairman.

"We decided that our first activity would be to go to college campuses and bolster Jewish life there," said board member Rabbi Pesach Goldman.

In a Hebrew letter to Raskin, the Rebbe wrote that "the thirst of the youth for Judaism is great, and it is the prime time to reach out to them."

The organization also coordinated projects spearheaded by the Rebbe, including the distribution of special handmade matzah before Passover and public Sukkot holiday campaigns.

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