Subsets of Haredi Judaism include: Hasidic Judaism, which is rooted in the Kabbalah and distinguished by reliance on a Rebbe or religious teacher ; and Sephardic Haredi Judaism, which emerged among Sephardic ( Asian and North African ) Jews in Israel.

In a speech given in 1986, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, discussed " individuals who express an inclination towards a particular form of physical relationship in which the libidinal gratification is sought with members of one's own gender ".

** The Sidrei Tehorot on Kelim and Ohalot ( the commentary on the rest of Tehorot and on Eduyot is lost ) by the Grand Rabbi Gershon Henoch Leiner, the Radziner Rebbe

In a practical sense, what distinguishes Hasidic Judaism from other forms of Haredi Judaism is the close-knit organization of Hasidic communities centered around a Rebbe ( sometimes translated as " Grand Rabbi "), and various customs and modes of dress particular to each community.

The office of Rebbe is generally a hereditary one, may also be passed from Rebbe to student, or recognized by a congregation conferring a sort of coronation to their new Rebbe.

This is one reason that Haredim will often prefer using Hebrew names for rabbinic titles based on older traditions, such as: Rav ( denoting " rabbi "), HaRav (" the rabbi "), Moreinu HaRav (" our teacher the rabbi "), Moreinu (" our teacher "), Moreinu VeRabeinu HaRav (" our teacher and our rabbi / master the rabbi "), Moreinu VeRabeinu (" our teacher and our rabbi / master "), Rosh yeshiva (" head the yeshiva "), Rosh HaYeshiva (" head the yeshiva "), " Mashgiach " ( for Mashgiach ruchani ) (" spiritual supervsor / guide "), Mora DeAsra (" teacher / decisor " the / this place "), HaGaon (" the genius "), Rebbe (" rabbi "), HaTzadik (" the righteous / saintly "), " ADMOR " (" Adoneinu Moreinu VeRabeinu ") (" our master, our teacher and our rabbi / master ") or often just plain Reb which is a shortened form of rebbe that can be used by, or applied to, any married Jewish male as the situation applies.

One notable person he is said to have assisted was the then Lubavitcher Rebbe in Warsaw, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn.

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, a prominent Hasidic leader, said that the Rebbe is God's essence itself put into a body of a Tzaddik.

In this context, the personal pilgrimage of a Hasid to his Rebbe is a central feature of spiritual life, in order to awaken spiritual fervour.

Most prominent among other Haredi figures who reject explaining the Holocaust as an act of divine punishment is the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who described it as blasphemous to depict God in this way.

Basing himself on many sources in classic texts of Judaism, from the " Revealed " to the " Mystical ", the Rebbe articulated the view that the Holocaust was a decree from God that is beyond human understanding in this world.

The Rebbe Shlomo of Rodomsk pithily declared, " Whoever believes all the miracle stories about the Baal Shem Tov in Shivhei HaBaal Shem Tov is a fool, but whoever denies that he could have done them is an apikoros nonbeliever.

The majority of his correspondence is printed in Igrot Kodesh, partly translated as " Letters from the Rebbe ".

* Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi ( 1745 – 1812 ), was the youngest student of Rabbi Dovber of Mezeritch and founded the Chabad dynasty ( he is known as the Alter Rebbe ).

Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, a grandson of the Alter Rebbe, born in 1789, is known as the Tzemach Tzedek, the title of his responsa.

To counter disbelief in the idea that passing away invalidates a candidate to be Moshiach, the Rebbe brought out the concept taught in the Holy Zohar that " a tzaddik, when he passes away, is to be found more in this lowest world than during his lifetime on earth.

" This was said to prove that the Rebbe is still available to be reached and still operates as the head of Chabad-Lubavitch.

Rebbe ( רבי ), which means master, teacher, or mentor, is a Yiddish word derived from the Hebrew word Rabbi.

Whilst Rebbe is a term that refers to many leaders of Jewry, ' Rebbe ' or ' Rebbi ' when mentioned in the Talmud is a reference to the redactor of the Mishna, Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi.

Teachings of Rebbe Shimon Bar Yochai, both from the Talmud and the Zohar, are generally expounded upon by Rebbes at their tishen.

His chief cardiologist, Dr. Ira Weiss, later stated that despite his own protestations against the Rebbe's being treated in 770, in retrospect, it had turned out to be the correct decision, and " the Rebbe, in fact received better medical care in 770 than he would have had we taken him to the hospital.

The Rebbe, his brother, and his attendant, shorn of their distinctive beards and payot ( sidelocks ), were disguised as Russian generals who had been captured at the front and were being taken to Budapest for questioning.

Even during Rebbe Nachman's lifetime, some Hasidic groups opposed the novel approach being taken by the Rebbe to disseminate Hasidism.

Rebbe come from the Hebrew word rav, meaning great, and might mean the equivalent of " my master.

* Me ' Uman ( a double entendre: it can mean " from Uman " -- Rebbe Nachman's burial place and can also mean " believed " or " accredited.

Speakers of Yiddish have also noted that na nach can mean " now to ," which would loosely translate the phrase as " Now to Nachman from Uman ," that is, traveling to the Rebbe on pilgrimage to his gravesite or in one's heart.

Soloveitchik told Kowalsky he " was a great admirer of the Rebbe.

He is also known as the Baal HaTanya, " Master of the Tanya ", and by a variety of other names including Shneur Zalman Baruchovitch, Baruchovitch being the Russian patronymic from his father Baruch, by the acronym RaZaSh, " Rabbi Za-Sh -", by the title Baal HaTanya ve-haShulchan Aruch, " Master of the Tanya and the Shulchan Aruch, as the Alter Rebbe (" Old Rebbe " in Yiddish ), Admor HaZaken (" Old Rebbe " in Hebrew ), Rabbeinu HaZokein, Rabbeinu HaGodol, " our great rabbi ", the GRaZ, and Rav.

Rebbe Nachman also placed great emphasis on Jewish prayer.

Rebbe Nachman, a great grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, breathed new life into the Hasidic movement by combining the esoteric secrets of Judaism ( the Kabbalah ) with in-depth Torah scholarship.

The Jewish cemetery in Leżajsk is a place of pilgrimage for Jews from all over the world, who come to visit the tomb of Elimelech, the great 18th century Hasidic Rebbe.

Some Breslov Hasidim also adopted this custom due to Rebbi Nachman of Breslov's pronouncement on the great importance of wearing tekhelet and in emulation of Rabbi Avraham ben Nachman of Tulchyn, a prominent Breslov teacher who accepted the view of his contemporary, the Radziner Rebbe.

Rabbi Yisrael also known as the Sharfer ( sharp or rude ) Rebbe, left a great impression on people from all walks of life who came in contact with him, and was highly respected by all Hasidic circles.

Rabbi Isaac grew to be a great Rebbe and was known as " the Sweet Singer of Israel ".

For example in the book " Mitoch Hatorah Hagoelet " he wrote that the first Rebbe of Chabad, the author of the Tanya, was a " great man " but the Vilna Gaon was even greater.

The great majority of the Chassidim of the late Bostoner Rebbe Levi Yitzchok Horowitz have become followers of Grand Rabbi Naftali Horowitz.

He was a great-grandson ( through the direct male line ) of Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz ( the Divrei Chaim ), one of the great Hasidic leaders of Polish Jewry, and a grandson of the Gorlitzer Rebbe, Rabbi Baruch Halberstam ( 1829 – 1906 ).

When one died in the infirmary — hardly a noteworthy occurrence in those days — the Rebbe stood up and eulogized him for having been a great Torah scholar in Hungary.

Although the Klausenberger Rebbe had gone to great lengths to allow agunos and widowers to remarry after the Holocaust, relying on testimonies from people who had seen their spouses being led " to the left " in the Nazi selections rather than documented evidence, the Rebbe did not rely on the testimonies of his first wife's death.

He was raised by his great uncle, the famous Rebbe Meir ' l of Premishlan.

In turn, these notions were passed on to his saintly students and successors, and shaped the Hasidic doctrine of the Tzadik or Rebbe ( righteous leader who channels Divine sustenance to his followers ).

Menachem Mendel Schneerson ( April 5, 1902 OS – June 12, 1994 NS ), known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or just the Rebbe among his followers, was a prominent Hasidic rabbi who was the seventh and last Rebbe ( Hasidic leader ) of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.

The Alter Rebbe became not only the leader of his own hasidic movement but a prominent figure in Hasidism in general through his writings.

His students included Rabbis: Yonasan David ( his son-in-law ) and Aharon Schechter, his successors as Rosh Yeshivas of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin ; Hirsch Diskind, son-in-law of Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and long-time Dean of Bais Yaakov School for Girls in Baltimore, Aharon Lichtenstein, son-in-law of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel ; Pinchas Stolper of the Orthodox Union and founder of NCSY who followed Hutner's guidelines in setting up this youth outreach movement ; Avrohom Davis, founder of the Metzudah religious books series ; Shlomo Freifeld who set up one of the first full-time yeshivas for baal teshuva students in the world ; Joshua Fishman, leader and executive Vice President of Torah Umesorah the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools ; Avrohom Kleinkaufman, a lecturer in Yeshiva of Far Rockaway and translator of the Genesis and Exodus volumes of the Metzuda Bible Commentary of Rabbi Solomon and the Kol Sasson Sephardic Siddurim and Machzorim ; Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe of Boro Park ; Meir Bilitzky, senior rabbi of Young Israel of New Hyde Park ; Noah Weinberg founder and head of Aish Hatorah and his brother Yaakov Weinberg of Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore ; Yosef Katzenstein of Copenhagen, author of Kol Chayil and Lema ' an Achai ; Feivel Cohen of Brooklyn, author of " Badei HaShulchan " and world renowned posek, Dovid Cohen, rabbi of Congregation Gvul Yaabetz and an author of a number of books on Jewish theology, and Ahron Kaufman Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Gedola of Waterbury, son in law to Feivel Cohen.

In common parlance of modern times, the term ' The Rebbe ' is often used by Hasidim to refer to the leader of a Hasidic movement, for example, by Lubavitcher Hasidim referring to their Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

Rabbi Yehudah haNasi, the leader of Jewry in Mishnaic Times, was simply called Rabbi, meaning " The Rebbe of the Generation ".

A Rebbe is sometimes distinct from a ' Rav ' or ' Rov ' who is an authoritative Halachic decider and leader of a Jewish, often Chassidic, community ) in that a significant function of a Rav is to answer questions of Halacha ( Jewish law ).

Menachem Mendel Schneersohn ( September 9, 1789 – March 17, 1866 OS ) also known as the Tzemach Tzedek was an Orthodox rabbi, leading 19th century posek, and the third Rebbe ( spiritual leader ) of the Chabad Lubavitch chasidic movement.

Shmuel Schneersohn ( or Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch or The Rebbe Maharash ) ( 17 March 1834 – 14 September 1882 OS ) was an Orthodox rabbi and the fourth Rebbe ( spiritual leader ) of the Chabad Lubavitch chasidic movement.

Yosef Yitzchok ( Joseph Isaac ) Schneersohn ( 9 June 1880 OS – 28 January 1950 NS ) was an Orthodox rabbi and the sixth Rebbe ( spiritual leader ) of the Chabad Lubavitch chasidic movement.

The movement has had no central, living leader for the past 200 years, as Rebbe Nachman did not designate a successor.

In his short life, Rebbe Nachman achieved much acclaim as a teacher and spiritual leader, and is considered a seminal figure in the history of Hasidism.

Following his death in 1994, his eldest son, Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Halberstam, known as the Sanzer Rebbe, has been the spiritual leader of the Sanz community in Israel. Today Kiryat Sanz has a population of approximately 1000 families.

The neighborhood's relatively large population of Lubavitch Hasidim, at the request of their leader, the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn stayed in the community after other whites left.

Rebbe ( spiritual leader ) of a Hasidic sect, whose role is dynastic ( passed on from father to son ).

Sholom Dovber Schneersohn (; 24 October 1860 OS-21 March 1920 NS ) was an Orthodox rabbi and the fifth Rebbe ( spiritual leader ) of the Chabad Lubavitch chasidic movement.

The new mystical role of the Hasidic Rebbe leader replaced the Baal Shem institution in Hasidism, combining Kabbalistic study with Maggid communal teaching, and displacing Practical Kabbalistic theurgic methods with a new doctrine of the righteous Tzadik as Divine channel of blessing.

* Yochanan Sofer ( born 1923 ), Rebbe ( leader ) of the Erlau Hasidic dynasty

The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson ( the seventh leader in the Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty ) was born in Mykolaiv on April 18, 1902.