For other uses, see
Chabad (disambiguation).Chabad-Lubavitch (also known as Chabad, Habad or Lubavitch), is one of the largest branches of
Hasidic Judaism and one of the largest Jewish movements worldwide, especially in the United States, the Former Soviet Union, Europe and
Israel. Chabad (חב"ד ) is a
Hebrew acronym for "חכמה
Chochmah, בינה
Binah, דעת
Da'at" ("
Wisdom, Understanding,
Knowledge"). Lubavitch, taken from the
Russian Любавичи,
Lyubavichi, is the name of the town that served as the movement's headquarters for over a century. In 1993 there were over 200,000 adherents to the movement some estimate today that there are over a million.
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