Rabbi Shmaryahu Noah Schneersohn (1842-1923) was the fourth and last

rebbe A Rebbe ( yi, רבי, translit=rebe) or Admor ( he, אדמו״ר) is the spiritual leader in the Hasidic movement, and the personalities of its dynasties.Heilman, Samuel"The Rebbe and the Resurgence of Orthodox Judaism."''Religion and Spiritua ...

Kopust The Kopust branch of the Chabad Hasidic movement was founded in 1866 by Rabbi Yehuda Leib Schneersohn after the death of the third rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn. The movement is named after the town of Kopys in the Vitebsk Reg ...

, a branch of the

Chabad Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch (), is an Orthodox Jewish Hasidic dynasty. Chabad is one of the world's best-known Hasidic movements, particularly for its outreach activities. It is one of the largest Hasidic group ...

Hasidic Hasidism, sometimes spelled Chassidism, and also known as Hasidic Judaism (Ashkenazi Hebrew: חסידות ''Ḥăsīdus'', ; originally, "piety"), is a Jewish religious group that arose as a spiritual revival movement in the territory of contem ...

movement. Rabbi Shmaryahu Noah succeeded his brother, Rabbi Shalom Dovber Schneersohn as 4th leader of the group for a period of time after Rabbi Shalom Dovber died.Miller, Chaim. "Turning Judaism Outward" Page 437, in footnote 6 for chapter 3. Kol Menachem, 2014 Other sources claim Rabbi Shmaryahu Noah succeeded his brother, Rabbi

Shlomo Zalman Schneersohn Shlomo Schneur Zalman Schneersohn (1830 – 1900) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian Habad Hasidic rabbi who was the second leader of Kopust Hasidism from 1866 to his death in 1900.Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1942). Introduction to ''Hayom Yom.'' He was t ...

as leader of the group in the year 1900 after Rabbi Shlomo Zalman died.Lowenthal, Naftali. Schneersohn, Shmaryahu Noah. ''Encyclopedia of Hasidism''. Jason Aronson Publishers. London. 1996.Loewenthal, Naftali. ''Communicating the Infinite: The Emergence of the Habad School''. University of Chicago Press. (1990): p. 244.Schneerson, Shmaryahu Noah. ''Shemen La'moar''. Vol. 1. Kfar Chabad, Israel. (1964): p. 1
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/ref> Rabbi Shmaryahu Noah served as the Kopuster movement's rebbe in the town of

Babruysk Babruysk, Babrujsk or Bobruisk ( be, Бабруйск , Łacinka: , rus, Бобруйск, Bobrujsk, bɐˈbruɪ̯s̪k, yi, באָברויסק ) is a city in the Mogilev Region of eastern Belarus on the Berezina River. , its population was 209 ...

. He was

rav ''Rav'' (or ''Rab,'' Modern Hebrew: ) is the Hebrew generic term for a person who teaches Torah; a Jewish spiritual guide; or a rabbi. For example, Pirkei Avot (1:6) states that: The term ''rav'' is also Hebrew for ''rabbi''. (For a more nuan ...

of the chasidim in Babruysk from 1872, and founded a

yeshiva A yeshiva (; he, ישיבה, , sitting; pl. , or ) is a traditional Jewish educational institution focused on the study of Rabbinic literature, primarily the Talmud and halacha (Jewish law), while Torah and Jewish philosophy are s ...

there in 1901.Kaminetzky, Yosef. Y. ''Days in Chabad''. Kehot Publication Society. Brooklyn, NY. (2005): p. 92-93. He authored a two-volume work on Hasidism, titled "Shemen LaMaor" ("Light for the Luminary").

Works

Rabbi Shmaryahu Noah is the author of a two-volume work on Hasidic thought, titled ''Shemen LaMaor'' ("Oil for the Luminary").

References

{{Authority control Rebbes of Chabad Schneersohn family 1842 births 1923 deaths People from Babruysk