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Rabbi DovBer Schneuri of Lubavitch was the son and successor of the founder of Chabad Chassidism, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi. Rabbi DovBer was born in Liozna, White Russia, on the 9th of Kislev, 5534 (1773). He assumed the leadership of Chabad upon his father’s passing in 1812. In 1813 he settled in the town of Lubavitch, which was to serve as the movement’s headquarters for the next 102 years. Rabbi DovBer was known for his unique style of “broadening rivers”; his teachings were the intellectual “rivers” to his father's “wellspring,” lending breadth and depth to the principles set down by Rabbi Schneur Zalman. In 1826, Rabbi DovBer was arrested on libelous charges of disloyalty to the Czar put forth by his opponents; after several weeks of investigation, he was exonerated. The day of his release, 10 Kislev, is celebrated to this day as a chassidic holiday. Rabbi DovBer passed away less than a year later, on 9 Kislev 5588 (1827), his 54th birthday.

Rabbi Pinchas of Shklov, also known as “Reb Pinchas Reizeh’s” (Reizeh was his mother-in-law), was among the first Chassidim of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, as well as a follower of his son and successor, Rabbi DovBer of Lubavitch. Rabbi Pinchas passed away in Lubavitch in approximately 1825.

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880–1950) was the sixth rebbe ofChabad-Lubavitch and a great-great-grandson of Rabbi DovBer.
 



     
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