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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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