Word: zalman
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...worst a dreamy, soft-handed, mystical fellow, the Hasid became the butt of many an Eastern European joke. After the time of Baal Shem Tob there arose a Habad ("rational") Hasidism, which urged men to be intelligent in their piety. The Habad leader was Rabbi Schneer Zalman, first of a line which took the name Schneersohn and the title Lubavitcher Rabbi-from their home town in Smolensk Province, Russia. Joseph Isaac Schneersohn is fourth in this line...