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We wish the great teacher of Israel, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, long life and renewed health upon the occassion of his 92nd birthday. That religion has survived the onslaught of ideas and events of the last one hundred and thirty years is near miraculous. To be sure, even in the nineteenth century there were heretics, atheists, agnostics, and those who scoffed at religion and its claims. The difference, however, was that they were not in the majority, and it was therefore they who had to justify their rejection of religion. Because organized religion was the norm, they were automatically classed as radicals and outcasts of religious society, and therefore had to justify their position.