משתמש:שמואל חיים/Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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תולדות חייו

ילדותו וצעירותו

The Rebbe was born in 1902, on the 11th day of Nissan, in Nikolaev, Russia, to the renowned kabbalist, talmudic scholar and leader Rabbi Levi Yitzchak and Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson. Rebbetzin Chana

. The Rebbe was named after his ancestor, the third Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch

At age seven, the Rebbe moved with his parents to Yekatrinislav (today, Dnepropetrovsk), where Rabbi Levi Yitzchak was appointed Chief Rabbi of the city.

In 1923, the Rebbe met Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, who then served as "Rebbe" (teacher and leader) of the world wide Chabad-Lubavitch movement.

נישואיו ומגוריו בפריז וברלין

In 1928 Rabbi Menachem Mendel married the sixth Rebbe's daughter, Rebbetzin Chaya

It may have been in these years that his formidable knowledge of mathematics and the sciences began to blossom.