In 1925, he met and corresponded with Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who assisted him in his research and studies of religious and mystical matters.
Among the notable figures he interviewed over the years were Jorge Luis Borges, Noam Chomsky, M. C. Escher, John Kenneth Galbraith, Marcel Marceau, Groucho Marx, Vladimir Nabokov, S. J. Perelman, Picasso, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Helman became an adherent of the Chabad Lubavitch Movement after visiting its spiritual head, Rabbi Menachem M. Schnerson.
In this capacity, Avner served as the liaison between the prime ministers of Israel and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
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In another attempt to defend the modern-day Chabad movement and its late leader Menachem Mendel Schneerson Rapoport wrote an extensive and very critical review of Menachem Friedman's and Samuel Heilman's "The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson," (Princeton University Press, 2010).
The 7th leader, Menachem Mendel Schneerson typically addressed Hasidic philosophy most often in informal, analytical talks.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, urged Jews everywhere to conduct large and small Hakhel gatherings in synagogues and private homes to foster greater unity and increase Torah learning, mitzvah observance, and the giving of charity.
However, contrary to popular opinion, the character of Yudel Krinsky is not meant to refer to Chaim Yehuda Krinsky, one of the assistants to Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
Among those who received semicha (Rabbinic ordination) from him were, the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Rabbi Mordecai Savitsky of Boston; Rabbi Zvi Olshwang (1873–1959?) of Chicago a brother-in-law of Rabbi Shimon Shkop; Rabbi Avrohom Elye Plotkin, the author of Birurei Halachot (a copy of the actual semicha is included in that work).
He is the son of the late Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht, one of the closest confidants of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Grand Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
Together with Samuel Heilman, Friedman authored "The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson".
Together with Menachem Friedman, Heilman authored "The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson".