Menachem M. Schneerson | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-18

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00:01:48 1 Biography
00:01:57 1.1 Early life and education in Russian Empire
00:04:39 1.2 Marriage and family life
00:06:15 1.3 Berlin
00:08:03 1.4 Paris
00:09:18 1.5 New York
00:12:00 1.6 Seventh Chabad Rebbe
00:16:01 1.7 Outreach, spiritual and political campaigns
00:16:13 1.7.1 Women and girls
00:17:04 1.7.2 International outreach
00:18:24 1.7.3 Chanukah campaign
00:19:16 1.7.4 Iran youth immigration
00:20:04 1.7.5 Religious, human rights and political activism
00:21:13 1.7.6 Sunday office hours for charity
00:22:46 1.7.7 His message: become righteous
00:23:34 1.8 Work habits
00:24:16 1.9 Illness and death
00:26:07 2 Global leadership
00:26:17 2.1 United States
00:28:45 2.2 Israel
00:34:05 2.3 Soviet Jewry
00:36:04 3 Legacy
00:36:13 3.1 Impact
00:37:53 3.2 Recognition
00:40:46 4 Scholarship and works
00:42:16 4.1 Books in Hebrew and Yiddish
00:45:36 4.2 Books in English (original and translated)
00:46:11 5 Criticisms
00:46:20 5.1 1960s: Tefillin campaign
00:47:17 5.2 1980s: Elazar Shach
00:47:52 6 Controversies
00:48:02 6.1 Wills
00:48:40 6.2 Messianism



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Menachem Mendel Schneerson (April 18, 1902 OS – June 12, 1994 / AM 11 Nissan 5662 – 3 Tammuz 5754), known to many as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or simply as the Rebbe, was a Russian Empire–born American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, and the last rebbe of the Lubavitcher Hasidic dynasty. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century.As 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 world Jewry, with an international network of over 3,000 educational and social centers. The institutions he established include kindergartens, schools, drug-rehabilitation centers, care-homes for the disabled and synagogues.Schneerson's published teachings fill more than 300 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. He is recognized as the pioneer of Jewish outreach. Many of his adherents believe that he is the Messiah.
In 1978, the U.S. Congress asked President Jimmy Carter to designate Schneerson's birthday as the national Education Day U.S.A. It has been since commemorated as Education and Sharing Day. In 1994, he 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 Jews and non-Jews for prayer.