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Shneur Zalman Of Liadi

Portrait of Shneur Zalman of Liadi ( one thousand seven hundred forty-five - one thousand eight hundred and twelve ) founder of the Lubavitch movement.

Rabbi Shneur Zalman ben Baruch of Liadi or Alter Rebbe of Liadi ( 1,745 - 1,812 ) called the Baal HaTanya or Alter Rebbe ("Old Master" in Yiddish ) or Rabbi, born in Liadi , a small town in the Russian Empire , is a rabbi Orthodox. He is the founder and Chief Rabbi of the Lubavitch movement , a branch of Judaism Hasidic.

Biography

Shneur Zalman of Liadi was a descendant of the philosopher and mystic Rabbi Judah Loew. He was the disciple of Rabbi Dov Baer Mezeritch , the Great Maggid "who was himself an eminent disciple of Israel ben Eliezer , the Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidic Judaism. After the death of Rabbi Dovber Mezeritch, his followers dispersed throughout the Europe. Rabbi Shneur Zalman became the leader of the Hasidic movement in Lithuania.

The movement he created was moved to the village of Lubavitch ( Lyubavichi ( in ) present in Russia ) by his son and successor, Rabbi Dov Baer Schneerson. In 1940 the Lubavitch movement moved its headquarters in the neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York. Shneur Zalman had opposed the advance of Napoleon Bonaparte in Russia and had supported the establishment of Jewish settlements in Eretz Israel , the Palestine , then under the control of the Ottoman Empire. Because of false accusations of his opponents, Mitnagdim of Vilnius , he was imprisoned by the Tsar and accused of supporting the Ottoman Empire.
The date of his acquittal and release, the 19th of the month of Kislev , was selected and celebrated as the "Hasidic New Year" by the Lubavitchers.

The descendants of Rabbi Shneur Zalman have adopted the names or Schneerson Schneerson (literally son of Schneer) following the edict of Napoleon to impose on her subjects to choose a family name (in effect until that time the Jews n ' had no family name and called such Shneur ben Boruch).

Education

Shneur Zalman of Liadi is known for his philosophical treatise entitled Hasidic Likkutei Amarim, better known by the name Tanya , published in 1797 (a more complete and more formal date of 1814 ). With the popularity of his book among Hasidic Jews, Shneur Zalman is also known as Baal HaTanya (Master of Tanya).

Shneur Zalman is also known for his work Aruch HaRav Shoulhan his version of the classic Shoulhan Arukh , a code of Halacha (Jewish law).