Shmaryahu Noah Schneersohn (1842–1923) was the fourth and last rebbe of Kopust, a branch of the Chabad dynasty of Hasidism. He succeeded as 4th leader of the group after his brother, Shalom Dovber Schneersohn, died.Miller, Chaim. "Turning Judaism Outward" Page 437, in footnote 6 for chapter 3. Kol Menachem, 2014 Other sources say he succeeded his brother, Shlomo Zalman Schneersohn, as leader of the group in 1900 after Shlomo Zalman died.Lowenthal, Naftali. Schneersohn, Shmaryahu Noah. Encyclopedia of Hasidism. Jason Aronson Publishers. London. 1996.Loewenthal, Naftali. Communicating the Infinite: The Emergence of the Habad School. University of Chicago Press. (1990): p. 244.Schneerson, Shmaryahu Noah. Shemen La'moar. Vol. 1. Kfar Chabad, Israel. (1964): p. 1. Available at HebrewBooks.orgSchneerson, Shmaryahu Noah. Shemen La'moar. Vol. 2. Kfar Chabad, Israel. (1967): p. 1. Available at HebrewBooks.org He served as the Kopuster movement's rebbe in the town of Babruysk.Kaminetzky, Yosef. Y. Days in Chabad. Kehot Publication Society. Brooklyn, NY. (2005): p. 93. He was rabbi of the chasidim in Babruysk from 1872, and founded a yeshiva there in 1901.Kaminetzky, Yosef. Y. Days in Chabad. Kehot Publication Society. Brooklyn, NY. (2005): p. 92-93. He authored a two-volume work on Hasidism, titled "Shemen LaMaor" ("Light for the Luminary").
Works Schneersohn is the author of a two-volume work on Hasidic thought, titled Shemen LaMaor ("Oil for the Luminary").
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