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forty seven discourses on the Jewish Festivals give an overview of the primary concepts of Chabad Chasidus and address the dynamics of a Jews relationship with Gd, community, and himself.
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By Rabbi Menachem M Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, the seventh leader in the Chabad Lubavitch dynasty, is considered to have been the most phenomenal Jewish personality of modern times.
To hundreds of thousands of followers and millions of sympathizers and admirers around the world, he was and still is, despite his passing the Rebbe, undoubtedly, the one individual than any other singularly responsible for stirring the conscience and spiritual awakening of world Jewry.
For the Tzemach Tzedek, see sitelink Rebbe was born in, on theth day of Nissan, in Nikolaev, Russia, to the renowned kabbalist, talmudic scholar and leader Rabbi Levi Yitzchak and Re The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, the seventh leader in the Chabad Lubavitch
dynasty, is considered to have been the most phenomenal Jewish personality of modern times.
To hundreds of thousands of followers and millions of sympathizers and admirers around the world, he was and still is, despite his passing "the Rebbe," undoubtedly, the one individual than any other singularly responsible for stirring the conscience and spiritual awakening of world Jewry.
For the Tzemach Tzedek, see sitelink Rebbe was born in, on theth day of Nissan, in Nikolaev, Russia, to the renowned kabbalist, talmudic scholar and leader Rabbi Levi Yitzchak and Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson.
Rebbetzin Chanawas known for her erudition, kindness and extraordinary accessibility, Her courage and ingenuity became legend when during her husband's exile by the Soviets to a remote village in Asian Russia she labored to make inks from herbs she gathered in the fields so that Rabbi Levi Yitzchak could continue writing his commentary on kabbalah and other Torah subjects.
The Rebbe was named after his great grandfather, the third Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, with whom he later shared many characteristics.
To Save a Life: There is a story told about the Rebbe's early life that seems to be almost symbolic of everything that was to follow.
When he was nine years old, the young Menachem Mendel courageously dove into the Black Sea and saved the life of a little boy who had fallen from the deck of a moored ship.
That sense of "other lives in danger" seems to have dominated his consciousness of Jews drowning in assimilation, ignorance or alienation and no one hearing their cries for help: Jews on campus, in isolated communities, under repressive regimes.
From early childhood he displayed a prodigious mental acuity, By the time he reached his Bar Mitzvah, the Rebbe was considered an illuy, a Torah prodigy.
He spent his teen years immersed in the study of Torah, Marriage in Warsaw: InRabbi Menachem Mendel married the sixth Rebbe's daughter, Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, in Warsaw.
The Rebbetzin, born in, was chosen by her father, the sixth Rebbe, to accompany him in his forced exile to Kostroma in.
For sixty years she was the Rebbe's life partner she passed away onSh'vat in, He later studied in the University of Berlin and then at the Sorbonne in Paris, It may have been in these years that his formidable knowledge of mathematics and the sciences began to blossom.
Arrival in the U. S. A. : On Monday, Sivan,June,the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin arrived in the United States, having been miraculously rescued, by the grace of Almighty Gd, from the European holocaust.
The Rebbe's arrival marked the launching of sweeping new efforts in bolstering and disseminating Torah and Judaism in general, and Chassidic teachings in particular, through the establishment of three central Lubavitch organizations under the Rebbe's leadership: Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch "Central Organization For Jewish Education", Kehot Publication Society, and Machne Israel, a social services agency.
Shortly after his arrival, per his father in law's urging, the Rebbe began publishing his notations to various Chassidic and kabbalistic treatises, as well as a wide range of response on Torah subjects.
With publication of these works his genius was soon recognized by scholars throughout the world, Leadership: After the passing of his father in law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, in, Rabbi Menachem M.
Schneerson reluctantly ascended to the leadership of the Lubavitch movement, whose headquarters atEastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York.
Soon Lubavitch institutions and activities took on new dimensions, The outreaching philosophy of Chabad Lubavitch was translated into ever greater actio sitelink,