Sholom Dovber Schneersohn

Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn

Sholom Dovber Schneersohn (or Sholom Dovber or Rebbe Rashab) (1860 - 1920) was an Orthodox rabbi and the fifth Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic Judaism movement. The dynasty was originally based in Lubavitch, a small town in present-day Belarus. Since 1940 the movement has been based in Brooklyn, New York in the United States from where it has sent out thousands of young rabbis and their wives who have become teachers and religious communal leaders in almost all Jewish communities throughout the world.

He is also known as "The rebbe Rashab". With Rashab being an acrostic of his name.

Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn was the son of Rabbi Shmuel Schneersohn the fourth Chabad Rebbe, and the father of the sixth Chabad Rebbe Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn. He is noted for establishing the first Hasidic yeshiva, Tomchei Temimim. He was a prominent opponent of Zionism, and broke with the Agudat Israel organization.

Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn died on 2 of Nisan 1920 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. During the construction of the "Rostov Palace of Sport" on top of the Old Jewish Cemetery in 1966 his remains were secretly moved by a devout group of chassidim to a different burial site where they are located to this day in the "Rostov Jewish Cemetery." His gravesite is visited daily by followers of Chabad-Lubavitch movement who come from all over the world.

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His writings (translated into English)

*Shaarei Ohra, Flames - A Chanukah discourse

shaarei orah was not written by the Rashab but rather by the Mitteler Rebbe, who has the same name
*Maamar Veyadaata - To know G-d
*Maamar Heichaltzu - On Ahavas Yisroel
*Kuntres Eitz HaChayim - The Tree of Life
*Chanoch Lanaar - The Ethical Will
*Isa B'Midrash Tehillim - Bar Mitzvah Maamar
*On Zionists and Zionism - A Letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rebbe Sholom Dovber
*Quotes from Rebbe Sholom Dovber of Lubavitch concerning Zionism
*Complete published works in Hebrew

Biographical articles

*Life timeline and published works
*A brief biography of Rabbi Sholom Dovber, the "Rebbe Rashab"
*The Rashab with Sigmund Freud

Rebbes of Lubavitch

*Chabad Lubavitch:#Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1812)#Dovber Schneuri (1773-1827)#Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789-1866)#Shmuel Schneersohn (1834-1882)#Sholom Dovber Schneersohn (1860-1920) #Joseph Isaac Schneersohn (1880-1950)#Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994)

Time-line of Lubavitcher rebbes