If you've come stumbled across this page by accident and don't understand what its about you may find the following introduction and links helpful. otherwise if you think you know what its about and would like more details about exactly what its about click here, otherwise continue reading the introduction. this website is a community website for disassociated (Chabad-Lubavitch) Hassidic people Q. What are Lubavitchers? A. The term 'Lubavitch' is derived from the Russian town where this ultra orthodox Hassidic group originated in the 18th Century called 'Luba-Vitch' meaning the 'Town/Village of Love.' Q. What makes Lubavitch different from other Hassidic groups? A. This Hassidic group has almost from its inception been somewhat distint from the many other Hassidic groups. Its religious and philosophical  founder Rabbi Schneur Zalman, descended from a Lithuanian heritage and  brought a radicaly intellectual feel to the young and 'emotionaly inspired' Hassidic movement. Rabbi Scheur Zalamn introduduced an unparalleled and unprecedented degree of analytic and philosophical language, which would continue to influence the shape of this movement right to the present day. His disiples and the subsequent leaders of the movement develeoped an intricate and complex set of religious and philosophical formulae, mixing Kabbalistic, mystical, traditionaly Jewish, Hassidic and philosophical ideas, that have greatly influenced Judaism, and even Judaism's own understanding of itself. Q.Who is the Rebbe? A. More recently the seventh leader (Rebbe) since Schneur Zalman, is Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, he has had arguably the largest and most dramatic impact on world Jewry and on Judaism. In the 44 years (1951-95) of his leadership Rabbi Schneerson (also known as 'the Lubavitcher Rebbe,' or just 'the Rebbe' to his followers) he has help to reinvent the face of post-war Jewry, through spearheading one of the most radical assaults against assimilation ever seen. His now worldwide movement and philosphy (which radicaly differes from R.Schneur Zalman's) continues to have a large effect on world Jewry and on the way Judaism sees and understrands itself. However it is his last and overtly messianic message (of the Late 80's and early 90's) that has been his most radical and contraversial, and as yet largely unexplored contribution to Jewish thought in the 20th Century.  He died on the 12th of July 1994 (the 3rd of Tamuz) after an almost epic series of minor heart attacks, stokes and other major internal organ failiures, leaving no obvious successor, and his followers in a whirl of confused messianic frenzy.

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