Menachem Mendel Taub

Menachem Mendel Taub
Kaliver Rebbe
The Rebbe (left) with Rabbi Moishe Sternbuch
Full 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.

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

External links

• N.Y. Times article

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