Yudel Krinsky

Yudel Krinsky

Chaim Yehuda (Yidel) Krinsky (born 1933, Boston, Massachusetts) is a Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi. He served for forty years in various positions as an important assistant to the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. He served as chief spokesman for the Rebbe and the Lubavitch movement, and was named sole executor of Schneerson's will. He has been at the helm of the movement's finances since the death of Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Aizik Hodakov, the Rebbe’s chief of staff. He was also his chauffeur for many years. According to Avrum Erlich, "Krinsky is probably the most powerful individual in the contemporary Habad movement."