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Encyclopedia > Shaul Shimon Deutsch
Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch, Liozna Rebbe
Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch, Liozna Rebbe

Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch, the Liozna Rebbe (born 1969), is a rabbi and author from New York City. He wrote a critical biography of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson which proved extremely controversial in Chabad circles entitled Larger that life. The multi-volume work disputed the notion that Schneerson was the Messiah, and was outlawed within the Chabad community following its publication in 1995.[1] Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area... Rabbi M.M. Schneerson The third Rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch dynasty was also named Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (with a h) Menachem Mendel Schneerson (April 18, 1902-June 12, 1994) was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi who was the seventh and last Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad Lubavitch branch of... Rabbi M.M. Schneerson For the third Rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch dynasty see Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (with an h) Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (April 18, 1902 – June 12, 1994), referred to by his followers as The Rebbe, was a prominent Charedi (traditional Orthodox) Jewish rabbi who was the seventh... In Judaism, the Messiah (מָשִׁיחַ Standard Hebrew Arabic: Al-Masih, المسيح), Tiberian Hebrew , Aramaic ) initially meant any person who was anointed by a prophet of God. ...

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Biography

He was ordained as a rabbi by Chabad and subsequently earned a business degree. In 1988 he won first place in a national entrepreneurial competition.[2] 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Deutsch now styles himself the Chabad-Liozna Rebbe of Boro Park, having been crowned as the "Liozna Rebbe" in 1995.[3] A group of dissident Chabad followers crowned him as their Rebbe in a ceremony on December 5, 1996 at their synagogue on 45th Street in Brooklyn.[4] Borough Park (sometimes rendered as Boro Park) is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Brooklyn (named for the Dutch city Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. ...


He took the name of the town of Liozna in Belorussia where the early Chabad movement was founded with the intent of enticing Chabad followers away from the belief that their late leader was the Messiah. [4] His actions have made him a hate figure within the mainstream Chabad community.[5] Liozna or Liozno (Belarusian: , Russian: ) is an urban type settlement in Vitsebsk Voblast, Belarus, the capital of the Liozno District. ... Belarus (Belarusian: Белару́сь, Russian: Белару́сь (formerly: Белору́ссия)) is a landlocked nation of Eastern Europe with the capital Minsk. ...


In 1998 he was the victim of a campaign of character assassination via the Internet.[6] A forged Jewish Telegraphic Agency press release claimed that he had been arrested for embezzlement and the counterfeiting of ten-dollar bills. After receiving regular death-threats from Chabad followers he lived under police surveillance for a time. In response to the repeated threats against his life he installed bulletproof glass in the windows of his home and synagogue.[7] The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) is an international news agency serving Jewish community newspapers and media around the world. ... A counterfeit is an imitation that is made with the intent to deceptively represent its content or origins. ...


Along with many other controversial books within Haredi Judaism his book is rare and highly sought after, with used copies retailing at around $350 as of 2007. Haredi Judaism, also called ultra-Orthodox Judaism, is the most theologically conservative form of Judaism. ...


Deutsch is married to Pe'er Deutsch and they have five children together.


Activities

He runs a City Harvest-affiliated food charity that feeds more than 1,000 poor people each week, with dozens of volunteers. The charity distributes $5.5 million of food annually.[8] CHC Jurong West building City Harvest is also the name of a New York City-based non-profit food rescue organization which is not affiliated with the churches or religious denomination of the same name. ...


He is a former Lubavitcher hasid and runs a museum in his synagogue in Boro Park called the Living Torah Museum. He presented a weekly radio show on Saturday night on Talkline Communications Network, however this was stopped after the company's director received repeated threatening and obscene calls at his home.[8] The show has since recommenced. He has also been an executive director of the Manhattan landmark electronics store J&R Music World, and still works as a consultant.[8] He writes a weekly column for Hamodia.[8] Hasidic Judaism (Hebrew: Chasidut חסידות) is a Haredi Jewish religious movement. ... Hamodia (Hebrew המודיע, meaning the announcer) is a Hebrew language daily newspaper, published in Israel. ...


He maintains a museum called the Living Torah Museum containing 979 archaeological objects that he says are worth nearly $15 million at his home in a building adjacent to his home and synagogue in Boro Park. The Museum was featured in the journal Biblical Archaeology Review and archaeologist Hershel Shanks, has declared that this was "the first museum that he knew of in the United States devoted to biblical archeology" adding that Deutch "has done what no one else in the United States (perhaps in the world outside of Israel) has done. ... All the big shots, all the people with access to the most sophisticated knowledge and current excavations, have not accomplished what Rabbi Deutsch has."[8] The Biblical Archaeology Review (illuminating archaeology and the Bible) is the organ of the non-denominational Bible Archaeology Society which has been combining the excitement of archaeology and the latest in Bible scholarship since 1974 [1]. The Societys founder and editor-in-chief is Hershel Shanks. ... Hershel Shanks (born March 8, 1930, Sharon, Pennsylvania) is the founder of the Bible Archaeology Society and the editor of the Biblical Archaeology Review and has written and edited works on the Dead Sea Scrolls. ...


Bibliography

  • Larger than Life: The Life and Times of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Shaul Shimon Deutsch, January 1997 ISBN 0964724308

Referencess

  1. ^ Special delivery, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 5, 1996
  2. ^ Mark, Jonathan, "A Rebbe’s Amazing Attic The greatest Torah and archaeology museum grows in Brooklyn," The Jewish Week, November 24, 2006
  3. ^ Jolkovsky, Binyamin L., "The "Messiah Wars" heat up: Online gets out-of-line", Jewish World Review, February 19, 1998
  4. ^ a b "Dissidents Name 'Rebbe'," The Forward, December 6, 1996
  5. ^ Heinon, Herb, "Bigger than Death," Jerusalem Post, August 15, 1997
  6. ^ Jolkovsky, Binyamin L., "The "Messiah Wars" heat up: Online gets out-of-line", Jewish World Review, February 19, 1998
  7. ^ Segall, Rebecca, "Holy Daze The problems of young Lubavitcher Hasidim in a world without the Rebbe," The Village Voice, September 30, 2000
  8. ^ a b c d e Mark, Jonathan. "A Rebbe’s Amazing Attic: The greatest Torah and archaeology museum grows in Brooklyn", The Jewish Week, 2006-11-24. Retrieved on 2007-03-25.

March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... November 24 is the 328th day (329th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... November 24 is the 328th day (329th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ... March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ...

External links

  • Website of the Living Torah Museum

See also

Persondata
NAME Deutsch, Shaul Shimon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liozna Rebbe
SHORT DESCRIPTION 20th century American rebbe and museum curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH living
PLACE OF DEATH

Template:DEFAUTLSORT:Deutsch, Shaul Shimon Bergers most famous work Rabbi Dr. David Berger is a professor of history at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and a visiting professor at Yeshiva Universitys Bernard Revel Graduate School. ... Rebbe which means master, teacher, or mentor is a Yiddish word derived from the identical Hebrew word רבי. It mostly refers to the leader of a Hasidic Jewish movement. ...



 

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