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Menachem Mendel Taub Kaliver Rebbe
The Rebbe (left) with Rabbi Moishe SternbuchFull name Menachem Mendel Taub Main work Kol Menachem Dynasty Kaliv Successor incumbent Father Yehudah Yechiel Wife Chana Sarah Shifra Menachem Mendel Taub, known as The Kaliver Rebbe, is a prominent Hasidic rabbi who is the Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Kaliver Chassidic movement. He was Seventh in a direct paternal line to the Founder of the Dynasty, Rabbi Yitzchak Izak of Kaliv, a Disciple of the Rebbe Reb Elimelech of Lizensk.
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Activities
The Rebbe, a survivor of Auschwitz and the Warsaw Ghetto, has made it his life's mission to have Jews remember those who perished in the Holocaust through the saying of the Shema Prayer at the end of every synagogue Service.[citation needed]
The Kaliv Institutions include Centers in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Tiberias, Rishon Letzion, and other locations throughout Israel. The Rebbe is in the process of building the Ani Ma'amin Holocaust museum to showcase the faith of Orthodox Jews during the Holocaust.[citation needed]
Books by Rabbi Taub
Rabbi Taub wrote and published Kol Menachem, a 13 volume work on the Torah and Jewish Holidays, along with several other works.
See also
- Kaliv
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Categories:- Kabbalists
- Philosophers of Judaism
- Auschwitz concentration camp survivors
- Hasidic rabbis in Israel
- Hungarian Orthodox rabbis
- Israeli people of Hungarian origin
- Living people
- Warsaw Ghetto inmates
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