Rav Dovber Schneerson Lubavitcher Rebbe Mittler Rebbe

Rav Dov Ber Schneerson of Lubavitch, the second Lubavitcher Rebbe, is known as the Mitteler Rebbe. He was the son and successor of his father, Rav Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the Ba’al HaTanya (the Alter Rebbe), and uncle and father-in-law of the Tzemach Tzedek.

Rav Dov Ber assumed the leadership of Chabad upon his father’s passing in 1812. In 1813 he settled in the town of Lubavitch, which was to serve as the movement’s headquarters for the next 102 years. In 1826, Rav Dov Ber was arrested by the Czarist government on slanderous charges. His day of release, the 10th of Kislev, is celebrated to this day as a “festival of liberation” among Lubavitch Chassidim.