Overview
- The division was completed at a private meeting in Monsey on Thursday through a formal goral, or ritual lottery, that assigned four carefully balanced packages of books and heirlooms to the heirs.
- Organizers spent months cataloging, authenticating, and appraising thousands of items so each package would match in monetary, historical, and spiritual value.
- The collection includes rare seforim, handwritten kisvei yad and prized heirlooms such as the Rabbeinu Tam tefillin of the Kedushas Yom Tov and an ancestral menorah.
- Key custodians and mediators who helped assemble and protect the yerusha were the Rebbe’s longtime attendant Reb Moshe Friedman, philanthropist Reb Eliezer Kestenbaum, and Reb Meir Hirsch.
- Family leaders say the drawing closes a long-running dispute by honoring the Beirach Moshe’s tzava’ah, and sources report a second meeting and another lottery have been set to complete remaining allocations.