Menachem Mendel Schneersohn
Menachem Mendel Schneersohn | |
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The Tzemach Tzedek | |
| Title | Lubavitcher Rebbe |
| Personal life | |
| Born | Menachem Mendel Schneersohn September 9, 1789 OS |
| Died | March 17, 1866 (aged 76) OS |
| Buried | Lyubavichi |
| Spouse | Chaya Mushka Schneersohn |
| Children | Baruch Shalom Yehudah Leib Chaim Shneur Zalman Yisroel Noach Yosef Yitzchak Yaacov Shmuel Schneersohn |
| Parents |
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| Dynasty | Chabad Lubavitch |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Jewish leader | |
| Predecessor | Dovber Schneuri |
| Successor | Shmuel Schneersohn |
| Began | May 5, 1831 |
| Ended | March 17, 1866 OS |
| Main work | Derech Mitzvotecha (Sefer Hamitzvot) |
| Dynasty | Chabad Lubavitch |
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (Yiddish: מנחם מענדל שניאורסאהן; September 20, 1789 – March 17, 1866), also known as the Tzemach Tzedek (Hebrew: "Righteous Sprout" or "Righteous Scion"), was an Orthodox rabbi, leading 19th-century posek, and the third Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement.