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Baal Shem Tov(lit., "Master of the Good Name"):
- R. Yisrael ben R. Eliezer (1698-1760), founder of Chassidism.
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The Maggid of Mezritch (lit., "the preacher of Mezritch"):
- R. Dov Ber (d. 1772), disciple of the Baal Shem Tov, and mentor
of the Alter Rebbe.
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The Alter Rebbe(lit., "the Old Rebbe"; Yid.):
- R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1812), also known as "the Rav"
and as Baal
HaTanya;;
founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch philosophy and
trend within the chassidic movement.
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The Mitteler Rebbe (lit., "the Middle Rebbe"; Yid.):
- R. Dov Ber of Lubavitch (1773-1827), son and successor of the Alter Rebbe,
and uncle and father-in-law of the Tzemach Tzedek.
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Tzemach Tzedek:
- R. Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789-1866), the third Lubavitcher
Rebbe; known by the title of his halachic responsa as "the Tzemach
Tzedek"; nephew and son-in-law of the Mitteler Rebbe, and father of the
Rebbe Maharash. Also known as Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch.
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The Rebbe Maharash (acronym for Moreinu `our teacher' HaRav
Shmuel):
- R.
Shmuel Schneersohn of Lubavitch (1834-1882), the fourth Lubavitcher Rebbe;
youngest son of the Tzemach Tzedek, and father of the Rebbe RaShaB.
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The Rebbe Rashab (acronym for Rabbi Shalom Ber):
- R. Shalom Dov Ber Schneersohn of Lubavitch (1860-1920), the fifth
Lubavitcher Rebbe; second son of the Rebbe Maharash, and father of the
Rebbe Rayatz.
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The Rebbe Rayatz (acronym for Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak):
- also known (in
Yiddish) as `der frierdiker Rebbe' (lit. `the Previous Rebbe'),
R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880-1950), the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe;
only son of the Rebbe RaShaB, and father-in-law of the Rebbe HKM.
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The Rebbe HKM: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
(1902-1994):
- the seventh Lubavitcher
Rebbe; eldest son of the saintly Kabbalist, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, rav of
Yekaterinoslav; fifth in direct paternal line from the Tzemach Tzedek;
son-in-law of the Rebbe Rayatz.
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