page_title: Shaliach (Chabad)
section_title: Origins
hierarchical_section_title: Shaliach (Chabad) / Origins
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Chanukka-Feier auf dem Marktplatz in Karlsruhe. Oberbürgermeister Frank Mentrup zündet mit Rabbiner Mordechai Mendelson die sechste Lampe an. English: Public menorah in Karlsruhe, Germany, lightened by the Chabad rabbi and the city mayor.
context_page_description: A shaliach is a member of the Chabad Hasidic movement who is sent out to promulgate Judaism and Hasidism in locations around the world. There are approximately 4,900 Chabad Shluchim families worldwide, in over 100 countries.
context_section_description: Starting in the 1950s, the Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, sent many thousands of shluchim all over the world, often to remote locations, to bring Jews closer to Judaism through his mitzvah campaigns and to assist Jewish communities worldwide in their religious needs.
caption: A Chabad emissary lighting a public menorah in a German city together with the mayor
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