Original sentence: During this time he shocked the world by giving instructions to Chabad Chassidic community in Miami not to evacuate before the aproaching huracane Andrew despite presidents orders to do so.In this view, the late rebbe is held to guide the questioner to open a book to a specific page, and to gaze at a specific verse, in order to communicate a message from beyond the grave.Many Chabad Hasidim practice a custom of attempting to communicate with him thru his writings, based on his statement in 1991 that placing of a letter to him in a volume of his teachings at random is a way of receiving his guidance.While there are a small number of references in Jewish tradition for opening books of the Tanach in order to receive divine inspiration, the practice of opening books of a deceased Rebbe's writings in order to receive communication from him appears unique to Chabad
Edited sentence: During this time he shocked the world by giving instructions to the Chabad Chassidic community in Miami not to evacuate before the aproaching huracane Andrew despite presidents orders to do so.Many Chabadniks practice a custom to communicate with him thru his writings, The placing of a letter to the Rebbe in a volume of his teachings when there is no way to deliver it to him personally is a long-standing chassidic custom.Nonetheless, there is precedence for it in Torah sources, as reflected in Sichos Shabbos Parshas Bamidbar 5749 (1989), where the Rebbe refers to the long-standing Jewish custom of clarifying doubts regarding certain questions by opening a Chumash or other holy text and acting on the directive one understands from that text.The concept of looking at the place where the letter is placed for an answer, is a new development