Schneerson had two younger brothers: Dov Ber, who was murdered in 1944 by Nazi collaborators, and Yisrael Aryeh Leib, who died in 1952 while completing doctoral studies at Liverpool University. He served until 1939, when he was exiled by the Soviets to Kazakhstan. In 1907, when Schneerson was five years old, the family moved to Yekatrinoslav (today, Dnipro), where Rabbi Levi Yitzchak was appointed Chief Rabbi of the city. He was named after the third Chabad rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the Tzemach Tzedek, from whom he was a direct patrilineal descendant. His mother was Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson ( née Yanovski). His father was rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, a renowned Talmudic scholar and authority on Kabbalah and Jewish law. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was born on Ap( OS) (11 Nissan, 5662) in the Black Sea port of Nikolaev in the Russian Empire (now Mykolaiv in Ukraine). In 1994, Schneerson was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his "outstanding and lasting contributions toward improvements in world education, morality, and acts of charity." Schneerson's resting place attracts both Jews and non-Jews for prayer. It has been since commemorated as Education and Sharing Day. Congress asked President Jimmy Carter to designate Schneerson's birthday as the national Education Day U.S. During Schneerson's lifetime, the messianic controversy and other issues elicited fierce criticism from many quarters in the Orthodox world, especially earning him the enmity of Rabbi Elazar Shach. His own attitude to the subject, and whether he openly encouraged this, is hotly debated among academics. During his lifetime, many of his adherents believed that he was the Messiah. He is recognized as the pioneer of Jewish outreach. Schneerson's published teachings fill more than 400 volumes, and he is noted for his contributions to Jewish continuity and religious thought, as well as his wide-ranging contributions to traditional Torah scholarship. The institutions he established include kindergartens, schools, drug-rehabilitation centers, care-homes for the disabled, and synagogues. Īs leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, he took an insular Hasidic group that almost came to an end with the Holocaust and transformed it into one of the most influential movements in religious Jewry, with an international network of over 5,000 educational and social centers.
He is considered one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson ( Yiddish: מנחם מענדל שניאורסאהן Modern Hebrew: מנחם מנדל שניאורסון ApOS – JAM 11 Nissan 5662 – 3 Tammuz 5754), known to many as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or simply the Rebbe, was an Orthodox rabbi and the most recent Rebbe of the Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty. 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York City
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