beliefs, "they believed that had Jacobs uttered the words 'Our God […] who gave us the Torah of truth […] ', he would have made a false statement". Witness for Chabad-Lubavitch Jacobs testified on behalf of the Chabad Lubavitch movement during the Chabad library controversy. Being an acknowledged scholar on Chasidism, Jacobs was called as an expert witness to testify on the Chabad practice of "ma'amad" (support), the method by which the members of the Chabad community supported their Rebbe. Jacobs testified that "[ma'mad] is a due, for which every member of the movement is expected to consider himself responsible, and ... there is an amount according to means which every member pays or is expected to pay. It is best compared to membership dues of a learned society or a sacred society, and the dues are expected as [a] token of membership." Jacobs noted that other Chasidic groups support their Rebbes by gifts known as "pidyon" (redemption) or "pidyon nefesh" (redemption of the soul) delivered personally to a rebbe. Pidyon is understood by Jacobs as "a personal gift, as it were ... for [spiritual] services rendered." Death and legacy Jacobs died on 1 July 2006 and is buried at Western Cemetery (Cheshunt) alongside his wife Sophie (Shulamit) (1921–2005). A few months before he died, Jacobs donated his book collection to the Leopold Muller Memorial Library at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. In December 2005, a poll by The Jewish Chronicle of its subscribers, in which 2,000 readers made their nominations, voted Jacobs the "greatest British Jew" in the community's 350-year history in England. Jacobs commented "I feel greatly honoured – and rather daft." Nevertheless, reports that Louis Jacobs had been nominated greatest British Jew received wide press coverage in Britain. Selected publications Jewish Prayer We Have Reason to Believe (1957, revised editions in 1961 and 1965) Jewish Values Jewish Thought Today (Chain of Tradition Series, Vol. 3) Studies in Talmudic Logic (and Methodology) (1961) Principles of the Jewish Faith (An Analytic Study) (1964) A Jewish Theology Jewish Ethics, Philosophy and Mysticism Tract on Ecstasy Hasidic Prayer The Jewish Mystics (1990) The Book of Jewish Belief Faith (1968) What does Judaism say about ...? (The New York Times Library of Jewish Knowledge) The Jewish Religion: A Companion (1995), Oxford University Press, Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good: An Introduction and a Way to the Tree of