Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

S. Following her death Schneerson greatly increased his public functions.

During his lifetime some of his followers had considered him to be the Jewish Messiah but Rabbi Schneerson discouraged such talk. He led the movement until his death in 1994 greatly expanding its worldwide activities and founding a worldwide network of institutions to spread traditional Judaism among the Jewish people and moral values of justice and honesty among all mankind. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (April 5 1902 OS – June 12 1994 NS) known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or just the Rebbe among his followers was a prominent Hasidic rabbi who was the seventh and last Rebbe (Hasidic leader) of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.