Schochet or Shochet is a surname, from the Hebrew word for "ritual slaughterer". Notable persons with that name include:
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Schneersohn is a Jewish surname used by many of the descendants of the Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the first Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement.
Elimelech Weisblum of Lizhensk was a rabbi and one of the great founding Rebbes of the Hasidic movement. He was known after his hometown, Leżajsk near Rzeszów in Poland. He was part of the inner "Chevraya Kadisha" school of the Maggid Rebbe Dov Ber of Mezeritch, who became the decentralised, third generation leadership after the passing of Rebbe Dov Ber in 1772. Their dissemination to new areas of Eastern Europe led the movement's rapid revivalist expansion.
Rabinowitz (רבינוביץ), is a Polish-Lithuanian Ashkenazi Jewish surname, Slavic for "son of the rabbi". The Russian equivalents are Rabinovich or Rabinovitch.
Twersky, Twerski, or Tverski is the surname of a pedigree of rebbes in the Chernobyl Hasidic dynasty. It was begun by the Grand Rabbi Menachum Nachum Twerski. People with this name include:
Reznik is a surname derived from Czech řezník or ("butcher") or Yiddish reznik.
Schachter, Schächter or Schechter is a Yiddish and German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Rabinovich or Rabinovitch, is a Russian Ashkenazi Jewish surname, Slavic for "son of the rabbi" or "son of Rabin". The Polish/Lithuanian equivalents are Rabinowitz or Rabinowicz.
Halberstam is a Jewish surname, used by several branches of the Halberstadt family.
Karlin-Stolin is a Hasidic dynasty, originating with Rebbe Aaron ben Jacob of Karlin in present-day Belarus. One of the first centres of Hasidim to be set up in Lithuania, many Lithuanian Hasidic groups are its offshoots.
Teitelbaum is a Jewish surname. Variants include Tetelbaum, Teitelboim
Greenwald is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Dushinsky, Dushinski, Duschinsky, are transliteration variants of the Polish surname Duszyński.
Nachman, also Nahman is a Yiddish surname and given name, similar to the German surname Nachmann. Notable people with the name include:
Leib is a given name, and a surname usually of Jewish origin. Leib often stems from לייב (leib), the Yiddish word for "lion". The Standard German word for lion is Löwe; other – partly dialectal – German forms of the word are Löw, Loew, Löb, Leb and Leib. In Standard German, Leib means "body", but that is in general not the source for the Yiddish name. Leib may also be connected to the Hebrew word לב, meaning "heart".
Shneur Zalman Moishe HaYitzchoki, usually known familiarly as Reb Zalman Moishe,, was an Orthodox Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi in pre-war Europe, and towards the end of his life, in the Land of Israel. He served as a Mashpia and shochet. He was a follower of the Rebbe Rashab and the Rebbe Rayatz.
Mendel can be both a surname and given name. Mendel is mostly a Yiddish variant and affectionate form of the Hebrew name Menachemמנחם and means "comforter".
Rokeach or Rokach is the surname of:
Chabad philosophy comprises the teachings of the leaders of Chabad-Lubavitch, a Hasidic movement. Chabad Hasidic philosophy focuses on religious concepts such as God, the soul, and the meaning of the Jewish commandments.
Ezra Binyomin Schochet is an Orthodox rabbi and Lubavitcher Hasid who serves as rosh yeshiva (dean) of Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad/West Coast Talmudical Seminary in Los Angeles, California, US.
Keter Shem Tov, was the first published work of the teachings of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism. The book was published in Zalkevo, 1794, more than thirty years after Rabbi Israel's passing. The book contains numerous, but brief, Hasidic interpretations of the Torah.