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Chabad's adherents include both Hasidic followers, as well as non-Hasidim, who have joined Chabad synagogues and other Chabad-run institutions. [ 49 ] Although the Chabad movement was founded and originally based in Eastern Europe , various Chabad communities span the globe, including Crown Heights , Brooklyn , and Kfar Chabad , Israel .
A Chabad house is a centre for disseminating Hasidic Judaism by the Chabad movement. Chabad houses are run by a Chabad shaliach (emissary) and shalucha (fem. for "emissary"); the two are often married. They are located in cities and on or near college campuses.
In Jewish law, a shaliaḥ (Hebrew: שָלִיחַ, ; pl. שְלִיחִים , sheliḥim or sheliah, literally "emissary" or "messenger") is a legal agent.In practice, "the shaliaḥ for a person is as this person himself."
Chabad-Lubavitch is the world’s largest Jewish organization, consisting of over 3,500 institutions in more than 100 countries directed by 6,049 full-time emissary couples.
Chabad.org has a Jewish knowledge base which includes over 100,000 articles of information ranging from basic Judaism to Hasidic philosophy taught from the Chabad point of view. The major categories are the human being, God and man, concepts and ideas, the Torah, the physical world, the Jewish calendar, science and technology, people and events ...
On 25 November 2024, Zvi Kogan (Hebrew: צבי קוגן, born 11 August 1996), an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi residing in the United Arab Emirates, was abducted and killed.He was an envoy of the Orthodox Jewish organization Chabad.
Chabad’s website says he was abducted from Dubai – one of the seven emirates that make up the UAE. ... Netanyahu added that “the murder of an Israeli citizen and Chabad emissary is a heinous ...
Rabbi Yosef Schwartz. A meshulach (Hebrew: מְשׁוּלָּח, romanized: meshullaḥ; plural: meshulachim), also known as a shaliach (Hebrew: שָלִיחַ, romanized: shali'aḥ) [1] or SHaDaR (Hebrew: שַׁדָּ״ר, acronym for שְׁלוּחָא דְרַבָּנָן), [note 1] was an emissary sent to the Diaspora to raise funds for the existence of the Jewish settlement in the Land ...