This first installment of Historical Sketches, focuses on the organizational skills of the Chabad-Lubavitch leaders, describing their far-reaching efforts on behalf of the social and communal well-being of their brethren, beginning with the founder of the movement, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, known as the Alter Rebbe.
This biography covers the life & times of Rav Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the Baal HaTanya V`HaShulchan Aruch. Or as he is also known as, the Alter Rebbe.
On the 19th of Kislev in 1798, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, was freed from his severe imprisonment in Petersburg, Russia.
In 1783, an important disputation took place in Minsk between leading Misnagdic geonim and R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi. The debate centered around R. Schneur Zalman's philosophy, which was based ont he teachings of the Baal Shem Tov - teachings that the Mitnagdim vehemently opposed.
