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Shneur Zalman of Liadi
שניאור זלמן מלאדי he
Lithuanian Orthodox Rabbi and first Rebbe of Chabad (1745–1812)
- Child of Baruch Posner
- Married to Rebbetzin Shterna
- Dated 15 September 1745 CE – 26 December 1812 CE
Rebbe
maggid
Offices on record
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 2
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- 1782 CE – 1801 CE maggid
Family
The family of Shneur Zalman of Liadi
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 8
Family 7
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor. 1 more point at records with no English name, and are not shown.
- child of (father) Baruch Posner
- of the house Schneersohn family family
- parent of (child) Chaim Abraham Scheersohn
- parent of (child) Devorah Leah Altshuler chassidic rabbanit; mother of the Tzemach Tzedek
- parent of (father) Dovber Schneuri Second Rebbe of Chabad (1773–1827)
- parent of (child) Moshe Schneersohn
- married to Rebbetzin Shterna wife of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Studied under 2
Shneur Zalman of Liadi Lithuanian Orthodox Rabbi and first Rebbe of Chabad (1745–1812) 
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
14 statements on this record
- 14 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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