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), di mana 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



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