Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Menachem Mendel Schneerson (), yang dikenal oleh beberapa orang sebagai sang Rebbe, adalah seorang rabbi Yahudi Ortodoks Amerika kelahiran Rusia, dan Rebbe Lubavitch terakhir. Ia dianggap sebagai salah satu pemimpin Yahudi paling berpengaruh pada abad ke-20.

Institusi-institusi yang ia dirikan meliputi taman kanak-kanak, sekolah, pusat rehabilitasi narkoba, rumah peduli untuk orang cacat dan sinagoge.

Kehidupan

1902–1923 
Menachem Mendel Schneerson lahir pada Jumat, 18 April 1902, yang bertepatan dengan 11 Nissan 5662, di kota Nikolaev. Ayahnya adalah Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, seorang sarjana Talmudik dan otoritas Kabbalah dan hukum Yahudi. Ibunya adalah Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson (nee Yanovski).

Pada 1907, ketika Menachem Mendel berusia enam tahun, keluarga Schneerson pindah ke Yekatrinislav (sekarang Dnepropetrovsk), dimana Rabbi Levi Yitzchak dilantik menjadi Kepala Rabbi di kota tersebut. Ia menjabat sebagai 1939, ketika ia diasingkan oleh Soviet ke Uzbekistan. Schneerson memiliki dua adik laki-laki: Dov Ber, yang dibunuh pada 1944 oleh para kolaborator Nazi, dan Yisrael Aryeh Leib, yang meninggal pada 1952 ketika menyelesaikan pembelajaran doktoralnya di Universitas Liverpool.

Beasiswa dan karya

Buku dalam bahasa Ibrani dan Yiddish 
 1943: Hayom Yom
 1944: Sefer HaToldot – Admor Moharash
 1946: Haggadah Im Likkutei Ta'amim U'minhagim
 1951-1992: Sefer HaMa'amarim Melukot
 1951-2014: Sefer HaMa'amarim
 1962-1992: Likkutei Sichot
 1981-1992: Torat Menachem Hitvaduyot
 1985: Chidushim UBiurim B'Shas
 1985-1987: Sichot Kodesh
 1985-2010: Igrot Kodesh
 1987-1992: Sefer HaSichot
 1988: Hilchot Beit Habechira LeHaRambam Im Chiddushim U'Beurim
 1989: Biurim LePirkei Avot
 1990-2010: Heichal Menachem – Shaarei
 1991: Biurim LePeirush Rashi
 1991: Yein Malchut
 1992: Torat Menachem – Tiferet Levi Yitzchok
 1993-2013: Torat Menachem
 1994-2001: Reshimot

Buku dalam bahasa Inggris (asli dan diterjemahkan) 
 Letters from the Rebbe
 Path to Selflessness
 Garments of the Soul
 The Letter and the Spirit

Referensi

Kutipan 
 Ehrlich, Avrum M. The Messiah of Brooklyn: understanding Lubavitch Hasidism past and present. Jersey City: KTAV Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0-88125-836-9.
 Fishkoff, Sue. The Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch. Schocken, 2005. ISBN 978-0-8052-1138-2
 Heilman, Samuel C.; Friedman, Menachem M. The Rebbe. The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-691-13888-6
 Hoffman, Edward. Despite all odds: the story of Lubavitch. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. ISBN 0-671-67703-9
 Rapoport, Chaim. The Afterlife of Scholarship. Oporto Press, 2011. ISBN 0-615-53897-5
 Steinsaltz, Adin. My Rebbe. Maggid Books, 2014. ISBN 978-1-59264-381-3
 Telushkin, Joseph. Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History. HarperWave, 2014. ISBN 978-0-06-231898-5

Bacaan tambahan 
 Deutsch, Shaul Shimon. Larger than Life: The life and times of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Volumes 1-2 Chasidic Historical Productions, Volume 1- 1995, Volume 2- 1997. ISBN 978-0-9647243-0-3 (Volume 1), ISBN 978-0-9647243-1-0 (Volume 2).
 Elior, Rachel. "The Lubavitch Messianic Resurgence: The Historical and Mystical Background 1939-1996", in: Toward the Millennium – Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (eds. P. Schafer and M. Cohen), Leiden: Brill 1998: 383-408. ISBN 978-90-04-11037-3.
 Miller, Chaim. Turning Judaism Outwards: A Biography of the Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Kol Menachem, 2014. ISBN 978-1-934152-36-2.
 Wolfson, Elliot R. Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-231-14630-2.

Pranala luar

Karya yang tersedia secara online 

 Chabad.org – Literature
 Sichos Kodesh – The Rebbe's original unedited talks 1950 – 1981 (Yiddish)
 Sichos B'Laha"k – The Rebbe's unedited talks  (Hebrew)
 Sichos in English
 Igros Kodesh  (Hebrew)
 Toras Menachem  (Hebrew)
 Hayom Yom  (Hebrew)
 The Rebbe's 10-point Mitzvah campaign
 Audio recordings of the Rebbe's addresses (Yiddish)
 More audio recordings of the Rebbe's addresses (Yiddish)
 The official archive of all the Rebbe's weekday talks  (Yiddish)

Karya yang tersedia di iTunes 
 AskTheRebbe! - Answers from the Rebbe's Letters. (English)

Biografi 
 Biography of Menachem Mendel Schneerson
 the Rebbe's life  (in Hebrew)
 Video Lecture on Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of Chabad by Dr. Henry Abramson of Touro College South

Situs sejarah 
 The Ohel, about Schneersons burial site
 Proclamation of Education and Sharing Day 2002 by President George W. Bush also honoring the 100th birthdate of Rabbi Schneerson
 Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A., 2007
 Numerous proclamations by President Reagan citing work of Rabbi Schneerson and promotion of the Seven Noahide Laws
 Congressional Gold Medal Recipient Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson 
 Tributes to the Lubavitcher Rebbe by Menachem Begin, Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Israel Meir Lau, John Lewis, Joseph Lieberman, Yitzhak Rabin, Aviezer Ravitzky, Jonathan Sacks, Lawrence Schiffman, Adin Steinsaltz, Margaret Thatcher, Elie Wiesel and Elliot Wolfson.
 Family Tree
 Commemorative remarks  upon the occasion of the 10th Yahrzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb of the Orthodox Union
 Timeline of Menachem Mendel Schneerson 1928–1938 
 My Encounter with the Rebbe, an oral history project undertaken by Jewish Educational Media, JEM to record the history of Rabbi Schneerson

Kelahiran 1902
Kematian 1994