Chabad-Lubavitch
A living tradition within Hasidic Judaism. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Chabad-Lubavitch is a living tradition within Hasidic Judaism. Also written Habad, Lubavitch, Chabad.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Shneur Zalman of Liady (ca. 1745–1812). No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. NULL: no founding year given. Founded by Shneur Zalman of Liady (ca. 1745–1812); 'Ḥabad' is an acronym for ḥokhmah, binah, da'at ('wisdom, understanding, knowledge'). The YIVO Encyclopedia records that Lyubavichi (Lubavitch) was the centre of the main branch between 1814 and 1915, the family having moved there after Liady was destroyed during the Napoleonic invasion; leadership remained with Shneur Zalman's descendants, who took the surname Schneersohn.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Chabad-Lubavitch.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-chabad-lubavitch.
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.