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.

Every day after morning prayers, he would seclude himself in the attic to study Rebbe Nachman's magnum opus, Likutey Moharan, and not come downstairs until he had memorized that day's lesson.

The Rebbe runs a very active yeshiva, where students come to learn at all hours of the day and night about Judaism, Torah, Israel, and much more.

There are countless stories of the Rebbe making miracles for those who have come to see him.

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.

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

After his heart attack in 1977, he reduced the frequency of his twice-weekly practice of all-night Yechidut — private audiences with whomever would request an appointment, and from then until 1982 only foreign visitors, and families with a momentous occasion such as a wedding or bar-mitzva were allowed private meetings — though community leaders and Israeli government officials would also still occasionally meet with the Rebbe in private for lengthy discussions.

In 1954, in a letter to Yitzchak Ben Tzvi, Israel's second President, the Rebbe wrote: " From the time that I was a child attending cheder, and even before, the vision of the future Redemption began to take form in my imagination – the Redemption of the Jewish People from their final Exile, a redemption of such magnitude and grandeur through which the purpose of the suffering, the harsh decrees and annihilation of Exile will be understood ... "

* Letters from the Rebbe – 5 volume set of Rabbi Schneerson's English letters.

Although he fulfilled many of the functions of Rebbe after his father's death in 1882, he didn't officially accept the leadership until 1892, after his elder brother, Zalman Aharon, had moved from Lubavitch to Vitebsk.

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

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 ).

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.

Gerrer Rebbe from 1870 to 1905.

Gerrer Rebbe from 1948 to 1977.

Gerrer Rebbe from 1977 to 1992.

Gerrer Rebbe from 1992 to 1996.

Gerrer Rebbe from 1996 to the present.

Ilan Ramon also travelled with a dollar bill received from the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

Moreover, the Satmar Rebbe taught that the existence of the Zionist State of Israel was actually preventing the Messiah from coming.

Its adherents strive to develop an intense, joyous relationship with God and receive guidance toward this goal from the teachings of Rebbe Nachman.

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.

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 Hebrew, a Chasidic Rebbe is often referred to as an admor, which is an abbreviation for Adoneinu, Moreinu, veRabbenu (" Our Master, our Teacher, and our Rebbe ").

As a rule, among all Chasidim, Rebbe is referred to in Hebrew as " Admor ", an abbreviation for Adoneinu Moreinu V ' Rabeinu, Our Master Our Teacher Our Rebbe, which is now the modern Hebrew word in Israel for " rebbe " ( pl.

A Rebbe is generally taken to mean a great leader of a Hasidic dynasties, also referred to as Grand Rabbi in English or an ADMOR, a Hebrew abbreviation for Adoneinu-Moreinu-veRabbeinu (" our lord / master, teacher / guide and rabbi / teacher ").

Rabbi Shmuel Moshe Kramer also noted that the gematria (" numerical value ") of the Hebrew letters of Breslov ( ברסלב ) is 294, as is the Hebrew spelling of Nachman ben Faiga ( נחמן בן פיגא ) ( Nachman son Faiga ) — the names of Rebbe Nachman and his mother.

A sub-group of the Breslov sect, colloquially known as Na Nachs, use the Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman mantra, which is based on the Hebrew letters of Rebbe Nachman's name.

In fact, Rebbe Nachman claimed that while even a complete simpleton can become a pure and righteous Jew, the ideal study schedule of an extremely scholarly Hasid should include the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ) with its commentaries, the entire Talmud with its commentaries, the entire Shulchan Arukh, all the Midrashic works, the Zohar and Tikkunei Zohar, the teachings of the Arizal and other kabbalistic works, all over the course of a single year.

However in his writings, Rebbe Nachman refers to Sabbetai Zevi as SHaTZ ( an acronym for his Hebrew name, SHabbetai TZvi ) and concludes the reference with the expression yimach shemo ( may his name be obliterated ).

* www. otzar770. com-Searchable database of the works of the Lubavitcher Rebbe ( Hebrew, Yiddish, English )

* Ohel Elimelech Hebrew Tales about Rebbe Elimelech

Some lessons were dictated line by line by Rebbe Nachman to Reb Noson after the Sabbath or Jewish holiday in Yiddish, and Reb Noson would translate the lessons into Hebrew.

It is a kabbalistic formula based on the four Hebrew letters of the name Nachman, referring to the founder of the Breslov movement, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, along with a reference to his burial place in Uman, Ukraine.

In the Litvishe world, when not referring to a Chasidic Rebbe, the word may be pronounced " Rebbee ".

As the guards slept, the Rebbe passed the word around: " Everyone should dig beneath himself.

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

In 1843, on the last Rosh Hashana of his own life, Nathan of Breslov (" Reb Noson "), the Rebbe's closest disciple and leader of the movement after the Rebbe's death, expounded on the meaning of Rebbe Nachman's Rosh Hashana in this way:

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

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.

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.