As a consequence, Chabad Hasidic writings are typically characterised by their systematic intellectual structure, while other classic texts of general Hasidic mysticism are usually more compiled or anecdotal in nature.

In Chabad it is called " the Written Torah of Hasidus ", with the many subsequent Chabad writings being relatively " Oral Torah " explanation.

Chabad writings of each generation of its dynasty, develop this intellectual explanation of Hasidic mystical ideas, into successively greater and more accessible reach.

Carlebach spread the teachings of Chabad, Breslov, and popularized the writings of, among others, the Rebbe Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Ishbitz and Rebbe Kalonymus Kalman Shapira of Piasetzno.

Chabad writings talk of two types of Hasid, the practical " Oveid " ( from the word to serve God-Avodah ), and the intellectual " Maskil " ( from the word to intellectually study-Haskalah ).

The idea to learn Hasidic mystical texts with similar logical profundity, derives from the unique approach in the works of the Rebbes of Chabad, initiated by its founder Schneur Zalman of Liadi, to systematically investigate and articulate the " Torah of the Baal Shem Tov " in intellectual forms.

The intellectual (" Chabad ") approach of Schneur Zalman, continued by successive Lubavitch Rebbes, emphasised the mind as the route to the inner heart.

Therefore, in Chabad, the Baal Shem Tov and Schneur Zalman, who share the same birthday, are called the " two great luminaries " ( after Genesis 1: 16, according to the Midrashic account, before the moon was diminished ), representing heart and mind.

Among Dov Ber's disciples, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi formed Hasidic Philosophy into a profound intellectual system, called " Chabad " after the Kabbalistic terms for the intellect, that differs from mainstream Hasidic emotional approaches to mystical faith.

Rabbi Levi Yitzchok was known to have a very close relationship with the famous Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the first Chabad Rebbe.

* Chabad Lubavitch Hasidim and many other Hasidic sects generally follow the rulings of Shneur Zalman of Liadi in the Shulchan Aruch HaRav.

Chabad of Penn Wynne, originally located in Rabbi Zalman Gerber's house, moved to a store front on Manoa Road across the street from the new synagogue building of Congregation Beth Hamedrosh soon after the latter moved in, but Chabad moved out three years later following the termination of the storefront lease at the end of May 2010.

Berlin was the only surviving child of a wealthy Jewish family, the son of Mendel Berlin, a timber industrialist and direct descendant of Shneur Zalman ( founder of Chabad Hasidism ), and his wife Marie, née Volshonok.

Chabad was founded in the late 18th century by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi.

Portrait of Shneur Zalman of Liadi ( 1745 – 1812 ) founder of Chabad and author of Tanya and Shulchan Aruch HaRav.

The founder of the Chabad philosophy, Shneur Zalman of Liadi, developed an intellectual system and an approach to Judaism intended to answer criticisms of Hasidism as anti-intellectual.

Shneur Zalman, on the other hand, taught that the emotions must be led by the mind, and thus the focus of Chabad thought was to be Torah study and prayer rather than esotericism and song.

* 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 ).

Shneur Zalman of Liadi ( also known as the Alter Rebbe ) was the founder of the Chabad school of Hasidism.

Chabad from its inception by Shneur Zalman of Liadi has been a counter-cultural movement within Hasidism, and has an interesting and varied history of controversies dating back to the 18th century.

In Tanya, Shneur Zalman of Liadi defines " Chabad Hasidism " as " מוח שליט על הלב " (" mind ruling over the heart / emotions ").

He would only allude in the most general ways to other great mystics, in Hebrew mekubalim, such as the Baal Shem Tov ( founder of Hasidism ), the great mystic known as the Ari who lived in the late Middle Ages, the founder of Chabad Hasidism, the Baal HaTanya Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izbitz and many other great Hasidic masters as well as to the great works of Kabbalah such as the Zohar.

A top follower of Rabbi Shneur Zalman, Rabbi Aharon HaLevi Horowitz, established a rival Chabad school in Strashelye, which did not last after his death.

Shneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of Chabad Lubavitch

In its ultimate articulation, by the Hasidic leader Shneur Zalman of Liadi, in the intellectual Hasidic method of Chabad, the Tzimtzum is only metaphorical, an illusion from the perspective of man.

The Tanya ( תניא ) is an early work of Hasidic philosophy, by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Hasidism, first published in 1797.

Their leader, Hasidic Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi ( 1745 – 1812 ), the founder of Chabad Hasidism, attempted to allay the anger of the Misnagdim and of Elijah Gaon.

To determine a ruling, Ganzfried based his decisions on three halakhic authorities: Rabbi Yaakov Lorberbaum ; Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the first rebbe of Chabad Lubavitch, author of the Shulchan Aruch HaRav ; and Rabbi Abraham Danzig, author of Chayei Adam and Chochmat Adam.

Tanya is the common name for the book Likkutei Amarim (), an early work of Hasidic Judaism, written by Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad.

Over time Chabad branched out into a number of dynastic groups in towns such as Lubavitch, Liadi, and Kapost.

), was an Orthodox Rabbi, and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism, then based in Liadi, Imperial Russia.

" The Staroselyer Rebbe was a follower of the first Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi.

The Russian Chabad school of Shneur Zalman of Liadi and his successors became the exception from Mainstream Hasidism, in seeking to communicate the elite esoteric dimension of deveikut as widely as possible, through its approach of intellectual investigation of Hasidic thought.

* Delivering learned or inspirational discourses ( in Chabad Hasidut, this is one of the main roles of a Rebbe )

* Chabad Lubavitch is a branch of Hasidic Judaism widely known for its emphasis on outreach and education.

Featured on Chabad. org is the multi-part article, The Zohar's Mysterious Origins by Moshe Miller, which views the Zohar as the product of multiple generations of scholarship but defends the overall authenticity of the text and refutes many of the textual criticisms from Scholem and Tishby.

" Outreach " is done worldwide, by organizations such as Chabad Lubavitch, Aish Hatorah, Ohr Somayach, and Partners In Torah.

Chabad Southgate also is included.

Cedarhurst is home to a number of shuls, including the Chofetz Chaim Torah Center, Congregation Tifereth Zvi, Kehilas Bais Yehuda Tzvi ( otherwise known as The Red Shul ), Agudath Israel of the Five Towns, Chabad of the Five Towns, and the Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst.

New Albany is home to Temple Beth Shalom, the Columbus Jewish Day School, the Chabad Center for a Jewish Tomorrow, and central Ohio's newest Jewish Community Center.

Examples of these Hasidic yeshivas are the Chabad Lubavitch yeshiva system of Tomchei Temimim, founded by Sholom Dovber Schneersohn in Russia in 1897, and the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva established in Poland in 1930 by Meir Shapiro, who is renowned in both Hasidic and Lithuanian Jewish circles for initiating the Daf Yomi daily cycle of Talmud study.

Illustrative of this is Sholom Dovber Schneersohn's wish in establishing the Chabad yeshiva system, that the students should spend a part of the daily curriculum learning Chabad Hasidic texts " with pilpul ".

Further illustrative of this is the differentiation in Chabad thought ( such as the " Tract on Ecstasy " by Dovber Schneuri ) between general Hasidism's emphasis on emotional enthusiasm and the Chabad ideal of intellectually reserved ecstasy.

In fact, the arm strap is looped for clockwise wrapping with Ashkenazi tefillin while it is knotted for counter clockwise wrapping with Sephardic and Chabad tefillin.

There is considerable controversy within Chabad about Schneerson's will.

It is widely accepted that two wills exist, the first will was signed by Schneerson and transferred stewardship of all the major Chabad institutions to Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky.

The name " Chabad " ( Hebrew: חב " ד ) is an acronym for Chochmah, Binah, Da ' at (): " Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge.

" " Lubavitch " is the only major extant branch of a family of Hasidic groups once known collectively as the Chabad movement ; the names are now used interchangeably.

The only other existing branch of Chabad is the Malachim.

With the Chabad philosophy he elevated the mind above the heart, arguing that "... understanding is the mother of ... fear and love of God.

So in reality — according to the Chabad analogy — Chochma is the birth of an idea in the mind, Binah is the contemplation, and Da ' at is the beginning of the actualisation of an idea.

Chabad philosophy argues that man is neither static nor passive nor dependent on others to connect to God.

Even after his death he is revered as the leader of the Chabad movement.