Is It Rabbi or Rebbe?

Personal mentor and teacher—A person's main Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva teacher, or mentor, who teaches him or her Talmud and Torah and gives religious guidance, is referred to as rebbe (/ˈrɛbə/), also as an equivalent to the term "rabbi". Spiritual leader—The spiritual head of a Hasidic movement is called a rebbe (/ˈrɛbə/).

Is there a Rebbe?

Menachem Mendel Schneerson (Hebrew: מנחם מנדל שניאורסון‎; Yiddish: מנחם מענדל שניאורסאהן‎; April 5, 1902 OS – June 12, 1994; AM 11 Nissan 5662 – 3 Tammuz 5754), known to many as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or simply the Rebbe, was a Russian-Empire-born American Orthodox rabbi, and the most recent rebbe of the Lubavitch ...

What does Rebbe mean in Yiddish?

: a Jewish spiritual leader or teacher : rabbi.

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