The Messiah’s House Is Empty

In the village of Kfar Chabad, just off the highway linking Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, stands a large brownstone house. I wrote about it in this space shortly after its cornerstone was laid in 1992. It was, in fact, designed to be a house fit for a king. Indeed, the purpose of the construction was to provide a dwelling for the rabbi that Habad-Lubavitcher (ultra-Orthodox) Jews had come to believe was