Lubavitcher Rebbe

Lubavitcher Rebbe

Rabbi Menahem Mendel Schneerson, known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, was one of the most important Jewish spiritual leaders in modern times. While he was the leader of the Lubavitcher (Chabad) Hasidic Movement, his influence was, and still is, felt far beyond the limits of "Lubavitch" alone.
The Rebbe was a child prodigy, devoting all his energy to the study of Torah. He later acquired a secular higher education at the University of Berlin and the Sorbonne in Paris.
In 1941, he managed to escape the horrors of the Holocaust and arrived in the United States with his wife. He then began intensive efforts towards rehabilitating the Jewish people and establishing Jewish educational organizations and institutions, both in the United States and throughout the world. In addition, the Rebbe strove to enhance Jewish awareness through his special "Mitzvah Tanks", promoting "Tephillin", "Ahavas Yisroel" (a love for the people of Israel) and "Moshiach" (Messiah). His immense work in the field of education gained such worldwide admiration, that the President of the United States designated the birthday of the Rebbe as National Education Day.

Medal Face:
Portrait of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on a quality silk screen, with inscriptions in Hebrew, above the portrait "Lubavitcher Rebbe" and below, "Admor Menahem Mendel Schneerson". (Admor is an acronym formed from the first letters of the Hebrew words "Adonainu, Morainu, Ve'Rabbeinu" meaning "Our Master, Our Teacher and Our Rabbi"). 

Medal Reverse:
The famous house of the Rebbe and his followers at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, with the number "770". Known as "770", the building was the focus of activity of the Chabad Movement. The slogan of the Rebbe for his intensive outreach activity was "And you shall spread out" ("to the west, to the east, to the north and to the south and in you and in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed" Genesis 28:14). This was the divine promise to the Patriarch Jacob. 

Design: Shai Zauderer 

Portrait Photograph of the Lubavitcher Rebbe: Artist Photographer Shimon Romney 

Engraving: Tidhar Dagan 

Minting:
Gold - Government Mint
Silver and Bronze - Hecht