Chabad Lubavitch
Religious movement
| Chabad Lubavitch link Website | |
|---|---|
| File:Chabad Lubavitch.jpg | |
| Formation | 1775 |
| Founder | Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi |
| Headquarters | 770 Eastern Parway, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, USA |
| Type | Religious movement |
| Membership | Berl Lazar |
| A Hasidic movement of Orthodox Judaism | |
Chabad Lubavitch is a Jewish-Hasidic movement that adheres to the Orthodox practice of Judaism. Founded in Russia in 1775, Chabad is today one of the world's largest and best-known Hasidic movements. Its official headquarters are currently located in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. It is the largest Jewish religious organization in the world. The movement is thought to number between 90,000 to 95,000 adherents,[1] and up to one million Jews attend Chabad services at least once a year; also due to the fact that Chabad is the only Jewish Orthodox presence in many far away places.[2] Chabad adherents follow Chabad traditions and prayer services based on Lurianic Kabbalah.
Etymology
The name "Chabad" is a Hebrew acronym for Chochmah, Binah, Da'at: "Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge". The name "Lubavitch" (meaning the "Town of Love") is the popular name for the Russian village Lyubavichi where the movement's leaders lived for over 100 years.
Origins
The Chabad movement represents a school of thought established and led by a dynasty of Hasidic rebbes. The Chabad movement was founded in the late 18th century by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the first rebbe of Chabad. The movement was based in Lyubavichi (Lubavitch) for over a century, beginning with the second rebbe, Rabbi Dovber Schneuri, until the fifth rebbe, Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn. The movement was briefly centered in the cities of Rostov-on-Don, Riga, and Warsaw. From the start of World War Two until the present day, the movement's center has been in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Concerns
Chabad has been described as being involved in white collar crime; such as financial fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, among others.[3] In January 2023, Putin fired assistant secretary of the Russian Security Council, Aleksey Pavlov, who described Chabad as a supremacist cult, whose adherents believed in their "supremacy over all nations and peoples".[4] Brendon O'Connell claims that in place of the false US media allegation that Trump colluded with Putin and Russia to win the White House in 2016, that he colluded with the Russian-Jewish mafia instead.[5]
Influence
Chabad maintains a network of over 3,600 institutions in over 1,000 cities, spanning 70 countries. It is alleged to have influence of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.[6][7]
Russia
A number of Russian oligarchs are known to be Chabad mega-donors, according to The Forward.[8]
References
- ↑ Marcin Wodziński, Historical Atlas of Hasidism, Princeton University Press, 2018. pp. 192–196.
- ↑ https://jcfa.org/article/the-chabad-lubavitch-movement-filling-the-jewish-vacuum-worldwide/
- ↑ http://archive.today/2024.01.16-040843/https://www.chabad-mafia.com/mafia
- ↑ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/putin-russia-anti-semitism-stalin/675424/
- ↑ https://youtu.be/NkyY1mU3AEM?si=GQlkzEyNlLRQzUPU
- ↑ https://www.distract101.com/2016/12/chabad-lubavitch-controls-trump-putin/
- ↑ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/the-happy-go-lucky-jewish-group-that-connects-trump-and-putin-215007
- ↑ https://forward.com/opinion/368802/politico-says-chabad-is-trump-s-jewish-movement-not-so-fast/