Editing Yehuda Kalman Marlow (section)

== Elections for Crown Heights Rabbinate ==
On Saturday night, 17 Adar 5745, Rabbi Zalman Shimon Dvorkin, the rabbi of Crown Heights, passed away. Just over a year later, elections were held in which the neighborhood residents chose three rabbis: Rabbi Yehuda Kalman Marlow (who for many years was a member of the Lubavitch rabbinical court headed by Rabbi Dvorkin), Rabbi David Chanzin, and Rabbi Avraham Azdaba. Rabbi Marlow was elected by a majority of over eight hundred out of a thousand eligible voters. Since the Rebbe instructed Rabbi Chanzin to remain in the Holy Land, additional elections were held in which Rabbi Yosef Avraham Heller was elected as the third rabbi.

The process of selecting the rabbis was accompanied by the Rebbe's personal involvement, and when certain activists tried to interfere with the election process, the Rebbe expressed himself in extraordinary language:

"When I saw the state of affairs - I had no choice but to turn away from all my affairs and put them aside, and ensure that the entire matter of electing and appointing rabbis would be conducted according to the Shulchan Aruch."

In another talk, the Rebbe applied to the neighborhood rabbis the saying of our Sages:

"Yerubal in his generation is like Moses in his generation... Yiftach in his generation is like Samuel in his generation... When one is appointed as a leader over the public, he is like the mightiest of the mighty... You must only go to the judge who is in your days."