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Rabbi’s wife mourned in B’klyn

More than 150 mourners gathered in Crown Heights yesterday to remember the wife of one of the most influential rabbis in the country.

Devorah Krinsky — who with her husband, Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, helped shape the growth of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement for Hasidic Jews — died Friday night. She was 74.

Rabbi Krinsky was the right-hand man to the late Lubavitcher rebbe, one of seven prominent leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, a branch of Hasidism that stresses outreach to all Jews and incorporates the teachings of Kabbalah.

Rabbi Krinsky has been named the most influential rabbi in America by Newsweek for the past two years, and his wife is credited with helping him develop the movement.

“She was a role model of how to be a good Jewish mother and grandmother,” said Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz, 36, of Crown Heights, who was close to the family.