Being a follower of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of Chabad-Lubavitch, he went to help Jews in the Soviet Union assisting Chabad's shluchim ( propagators ) network.

His son, Rabbi Menachem Even-Israel, is the Director of Educational Programs at the Steinsaltz Center in the Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem.

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 ".

He among others fully institutionlized the teaching of Mishnah and Talmud to girls, from an autobiography on him by Rabbi Mayor Twersky called " A Glimpse of the Rav " in R. Menachem Genack ed., Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik: Man of Halacha, Man of Faith, page 113:

Of note in recent times is Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson's novel interpretation of Rashi's commentary, which was delivered in a series of public talks that began in 1964 and continued for over 25 years.

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

* Cheshbon HaNefesh ( Accounting of the Soul ) by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Lefin of Satanov ( based in part on Benjamin Franklin's idea of the thirteen virtues )

The Tzemach Tzedek cites a question asked by Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk: At first glance, this appears to have been mainly a test of Isaac, for he was the one to be giving up his life al kiddush Hashem ( in order to sanctify God ’ s Name ).

Rabbi Menachem Mendel answers that although it is a very great Mitzvah to give up one ’ s life, it is unremarkable in the annals of Jewish history.

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* Congressional Gold Medal Recipient Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson strove, in his writings and lectures, to attain unity between opposites.

* Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn ( 1789 – 1866 ), grandson of Rabbi Shneur Zalman and son-in-law of Dovber, known for his responsa named Tzemach Tzedek.

* Rabbi Shmuel Schneersohn ( 1834 – 1882 ), youngest son of Rabbi Menachem Mendel, known as " The Rebbe Maharash ".

* Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson ( 1902 – 1994 ), fifth in paternal line from Menachem Mendel and son-in-law of the previous rebbe, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn.

On the Essence of Chasidus: A Chasidic Discourse by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of Chabad-Lubavitch.

He befriended two other future rabbinical leaders then studying philosophy in Berlin: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, later to become rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University in New York City, and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson who would become rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch in Brooklyn.

Israeli Knesset Member Rabbi Menachem Porush chartered a private plane to meet the Hutners in Nicosia, and gave the Rav his own shirt and tallit katan, since Rabbi Hutner's tallit, tefillin, shirt, jacket and hat had been confiscated during his three-week ordeal.

A leading scholar of the Kabbalah, Moshe Idel ( Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic, SUNY, 1995, pp. 17 – 18 ), ascribes this doctrine to the kabbalistic system of Rabbi Moses Cordovero ( 1522 – 1570 ) and in the eighteenth century, Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov, founder of the Hasidic movement, as well as his contemporary, Rabbi Menahem Mendel, the Maggid of Bar.

Rabbis Herschel Schacter, Sholem Kowalsky, Julius Berman ; Rabbi Menachem Genack ; and Rabbi Fabian Schoenfeld ( all students of Soloveitchik ) have asserted that Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the late Lubavitcher Rebbe and Soloveitchik met for the first time while they both studied in Berlin.

During his youth, Rabbi Schneerson received mostly private Jewish education.

Rabbi Schneerson later studied independently under his father, who was his primary teacher.

Throughout his childhood Rabbi Schneerson was involved in the affairs of his father's office, where his secular education and knowledge of the Russian language were useful in assisting his father's public administrative work.

In 1923 Rabbi Schneerson visited Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn for the first time.

During his stay in Berlin, R. Schneerson was assigned specific communal tasks by his father-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, who also requested that he write scholarly annotations to the responsa of Tzemach Tzedek.

Some students of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, have asserted that Rabbi Schneerson met Soloveitchik while they were studying in Berlin.

Soloveitchik's daughter Dr. Atarah Twersky recalls Soloveitchik saying that Rabbi Schneerson visited her father in his apartment and the former asked the latter why he was studying in Berlin if his father-in-law was opposed to it.

According to Soloveitchik's son Rabbi Dr. Haym Soloveitchik, Rabbi Soloveitchik only saw Rabbi Schneerson pass by in Berlin and they did not meet while there.

In 1964, Soloveitchik paid a lengthy visit while Rabbi Schneerson was mourning the death of his mother.

In 1933, Rabbi Schneerson moved to Paris, France.

Rabbi Schneerson learned to speak French, which he put to use in establishing his movement there after the war.

In 1941, Rabbi Schneerson escaped from Europe on the Serpa Pinto, which embarked from Lisbon, Portugal.

During the 1940s, Rabbi Schneerson became a naturalized US citizen.

For many years to come, he would speak about America's special place in the world, and would argue that the bedrock of the United States ' power and uniqueness came from its foundational values, which were, according to Rabbi Schneerson, '" E pluribus unum '— from many one ", and " In God we trust.

The two main candidates for leadership were Rabbi M. Schneerson and Rabbi Shemaryahu Gurary, Rabbi Y. Schneersohn's elder son-in-law.

Rabbi M. Schneerson actively refused to accept leadership of the movement for the entire year after Rabbi Y. Schneersohn's death, but was eventually cajoled into accepting the post by his wife and followers.

For example, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim of the Makhon Shilo institute has issued a siddur reflecting Eretz Yisrael practice as found in the Jerusalem Talmud and other sources.

Starting with President Carter in 1978, the U. S. Congress and President have issued proclamations each year, declaring that Rabbi Schneerson's birthday — usually a day in March or April that coincides with his recognized Hebrew calendar birthdate of 11 Nissan — be observed as Education and Sharing Day in the United States.

Maimonidean controversy flared up again at the beginning of the fourteenth century when Rabbi Shlomo ben Aderet, under influence from Asher ben Jehiel, issued a cherem on " any member of the community who, being under twenty-five years, shall study the works of the Greeks on natural science and metaphysics.

In March 2006, the rabbinical leaders of UTJ, including Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, issued public declarations urging the Haredi public to vote for the party's list.

# This is a stamp honoring Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan, issued by Israel in 1983.

Conservative Judaism is more lenient ; in the 1960s, Rabbi Israel Silverman issued a responsum, officially approved by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, in which he argued that wine manufactured by an automated process was not " manufactured by gentiles ", and therefore would be kosher.

A later responsum of Conservative Judaism was issued by Rabbi Elliott Dorff, who argued, based on precedents in 15th-19th century responsa, that many foods, such as wheat and oil products, which had once been forbidden when produced by non-Jews, were eventually declared kosher ; on this basis he concluded wine and grape products produced by non-Jews would be permissible.

She obtained the approval of Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan ( the Chofetz Chaim ), who issued a responsum holding that contemporary conditions required departing from traditional prohibitions on teaching women Torah and accepting the view that it was permitted.

Responsa to prohibit ( or virtually prohibit ) cigarette smoking have been issued by several Orthodox rabbis, including Waldenberg, and Hayim David HaLevi, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv ) from 1973.

In 1998 he defended the extent of the Vatican apology for the Holocaust issued by Pope John Paul II, in contrast to the disappointment expressed by many prominent Jews such as Israeli Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau.

Only part of this work was published in Chazan's lifetime ; the first complete edition was published in 1935 by Rabbi Shmuel Horowitz and an amended and annotated edition was issued in 1989 by Rabbi Mordechai Frank.