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Tzivos Hashem (literally, Army of God [1] ), is a Brooklyn, New York based organization that was founded in 1980 as a youth group of the Chabad movement to encourage its version of Jewish customs and religious practice in non-orthodox Jewish children.
Tzivos Hashem began its programs in the autumn of 1980. Programs include Shomer Shabbat Little League baseball teams, international contests, and involvement in the construction and funding of orphanages in Ukraine, [2] food pantries, and a museum for Jewish children.
Tzivos Hashem publishes three children's periodicals: Moshiach Times, HaChayol, and Tzivos Hashem KIDS!. HaChayol is geared towards children from the Chabad community. Tzivos Hashem KIDS! is distributed to Chabad Houses throughout the world. Moshiach Times has employed MAD Magazine's Spy vs. Spy creator Al Jaffee.
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Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known to many as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or simply the Rebbe, was an Orthodox rabbi and the most recent Rebbe of the Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century.
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 groups and Jewish religious organizations in the world. Unlike most Haredi groups, which are self-segregating, Chabad operates mainly in the wider world and caters to secularized Jews.
The Tanya is an early work of Hasidic philosophy, by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Hasidism, first published in 1796. Its formal title is Likkutei Amarim, but is more commonly known by its first Hebrew word tanya, which means "it has been taught", where he refers to a baraita section in "Niddah", at the end of chapter 3, 30b. Tanya is composed of five sections that define Hasidic mystical psychology and theology as a handbook for daily spiritual life in Jewish observance.
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The Gan Israel Camping Network is a group of Chabad-Lubavitch summer camps. The network claims a total enrolment of over 100,000 children.
Tehillat Hashem is the name of a prayer-book used for Jewish services in synagogues and privately by Hasidic Jews, specifically in the Chabad-Lubavitch community. The name of the siddur is taken from Psalm 145, verse 21, "Praise of God shall my mouth speak, and all flesh shall bless His holy Name forever and ever." The siddur is a photocopy of the Siddur "Seder HaAvodah", published by Vilna 1901, with corrections and additions from the Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
Shneur Chaim (HaKohen) Gutnick, was a prominent Orthodox Jewish Chabad rabbi in Australia. According to the Lubavitcher Rebbe he was the Chief Rabbi of Australia.
Agudas Chassidei Chabad is the umbrella organization for the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch movement. The chairman of the executive committee is Rabbi Abraham Shemtov.
Eliezer Zusia Portugal was the first Rebbe of Skulen. He was revered by his followers in Russia, Romania, Israel, and the United States for his personal warmth and his care for hundreds of Jewish youth and war orphans, whom he personally adopted as his own children. He established the Skulener dynasty in America in the 1960s. His only biological son, Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, succeeded him as Rebbe.
Messianism in Chabad refers to the contested beliefs among some members of the Chabad-Lubavitch community—a group within Hasidic Judaism—regarding the Jewish messiah. Some members of the Chabad community believe that Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the deceased seventh Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty, is the Jewish messiah. The issue remains controversial within both the Chabad movement and the broader Jewish community.
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Chabad mitzvah campaigns, or Mivtzo'im refer to several campaigns launched by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. From 1967 to 1976, Schneerson said all Jews should observe ten basic "beginner's mitzvot" (commandments) . In the years that followed there were campaigns for additional mitzvot as well.
Army of God may refer to:
Chabad affiliated organizations and institutions number in the thousands. Chabad is a Hasidic movement, a branch of Orthodox Judaism. The organizations and institutions associated with the movement provide social, educational and religious services to Jews around the globe.
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.
Chabad customs and holidays are the practices, rituals and holidays performed and celebrated by adherents of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. The customs, or minhagim and prayer services are based on Lurianic kabbalah. The holidays are celebrations of events in Chabad history. General Chabad customs, called minhagim, distinguish the movement from other Hasidic groups.
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N'shei Chabad, also known as the Lubavitch Women's Organization, is a Hasidic women's organization associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch community. The group was initially titled Agudas N'shei U'bnos Chabad (Council of the Women and Daughters of Chabad, and was founded in New York City in 1955 by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Rebbe of Chabad. The organization offered Chabad women the opportunity to take an active role in community life. The group published magazines, and organized conventions to promote Hasidic outreach work.
To fire up the children with this fervor, a notice from the Tzivos Hashem Lubavitch youth organization promotes the sale of a magazine taken up with the subject and announces (in English, apparently for those to whom this language speaks most clearly), 'Kids can't resist the Moshiach Times.' [...] Indeed, this recognition that there is an ongoing need to instill in the children a sense of connection to a rebbe whom they have never seen in the flesh yet whom they must treat as immanent in their lives is reflected in a poster and the book it promotes: The Rebbe Speaks to Children. The flyer informs us that this collection of talks was originally given to the Tzivos Hashem (Army of God) youth groups as is 'organized according to the holidays and special seasons of the calendar.' Thus it can serve as a way of inserting the rebbe into the ongoing lives of children who never knew him.
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