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Schneur Zalman Boruchovitch Rebbe, 17451812 (aged 67 years)

Name
Schneur Zalman /Boruchovitch/ Rebbe
Surname
Boruchovitch
Given names
Schneur Zalman
Name suffix
Rebbe
Also known as
Alter /Rebbe/
Family with parents
father
mother
himself
17451812
Birth: 15 September 1745 24
Death: 27 December 1812
brother
brother
brother
Family with Sterna Segal Rebbetzin
himself
17451812
Birth: 15 September 1745 24
Death: 27 December 1812
wife
Marriage Marriage1760
14 years
son
daughter
son
son
daughter
Birth
Note: 18 Elul 5505
Marriage
Occupation
Alter Rebbe, First Rebbe of Chabad
Occupation
Lubavitcher Rebbe
Birth of a son
Note: 9 Kislev 5534
Marriage of a son
Death of a father
Yahrzeit
24 Teves 5573
27 December 1812
Death of a mother
Death
27 December 1812 (aged 67 years)
Note: 24 Teves 5573
Burial
Note: Haditch (Ohel of the Alter Rebbe)
Unique identifier
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Last change
26 May 201218:57:47
Author of last change: Danny
Birth

18 Elul 5505

Death

24 Teves 5573

Burial

Haditch (Ohel of the Alter Rebbe)

Note

Alter Rebbe
founder of Chabad
Direct descendant of the Mahrahal of Prague, Rabbi Judah Loew

Rabbi Schneur Zalman Boruchovitch of Liadi (Laydie) (The Alter Rebbefounder of Chabad) (b. 1745 d. 1812). and father of the Mitteler Rebbe.

The Alter Rebbe (lit., "the Old Rebbe": Yid.): R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi(1745-1812), also known as "the Rav" and as Baal HaTanya; founder of theChabad-Lubavitch trend within the chassidic movement; disciple of theMaggid of Mezritch (follower of the R. Yisrael ben R. Eliezer(1698-1760), founder of Chassidism.)

Aruch Harav. Author of Tanya. ImpriSonned 1799 after being denounced byopponents of hassidism in St. Petersburg. Freed on 19 Kislev. This datesis considered the New Year of Hassidot

Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, also known as the "Alter Rebbe" and "TheRav," was born in Li'ozna, White Russia, on the 18th of Elul 5505 (1745).He became a disciple of Rabbi DovBer of Mezeritch (the second Leader ofthe Chassidic movement) in 1764. In 1772 he estAblished the "Chabad"branch of the Chassidism. For twenty years he worked on his Tanya, inwhich he outlined the Chabad philosophy and ethos. First published in1797, the Tanya is regarded as the "bible" of Chabad Chassidism uponwhich hundreds of works and thousands of discourses by seven Generationsof Chabad rebbes and their disciples are based. Rabbi Schneur Zalmanpassed away on the 10th of Tevet, 5583 (December 1812) while fLeeingNapoLeon's armies.

Alter Rebbe was in Petersburg during his second prison term, in 5561[1800].