fiction.wikisort.org - Writer

Nissan Mindel was a Chabad Hasidic rabbi, author, editor, and served on the administrative staff of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe.

Rabbi Dr. Nissan Mindel
Born	1912 Riga
Died	1999 Brooklyn, NY
Nationality	Latvian
Occupation	Rabbi, author, editor
Organization	Chabad-Lubavitch
Notable work	Chabad Philosophy
Title	Dr. Rabbi
Parent(s)	Yaakov Yitzchak and Bunia Mindel

Background

Part of a series on
Chabad (Rebbes and Chasidim)
Rebbes of Chabad Shneur Zalman of Liadi (Alter Rebbe) Dovber Schneuri (Mitteler Rebbe) Menachem M. Schneersohn (Tzemach Tzedek) Shmuel Schneersohn (Rebbe Maharash) Sholom Dovber Schneersohn (Rebbe Rashab) Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (Rebbe Rayatz) Menachem M. Schneerson (the Rebbe)
Schneersohn family Chaim S. Z. of Liadi (1814–1880) Yitzchak Dovber of Liadi (1833–1910) Chana Schneerson (1880–1964) Chaya M. Schneersohn (d. 1860) Chaya M. Schneerson (1901–1988) Levi Y. Schneerson (1878–1944) Moshe Schneersohn (ca. 1784–before 1853) Sheina Horenstein (d. 1942) Shlomo Zalman Schneersohn (1830–1900) Shmaryahu Noah Schneersohn (1842–1924) Yehuda Leib Schneersohn (1808–1866)
Rabbonim Avraham Osdoba Chaim Gutnick Mordechai Ashkenazi Mordechai Gutnick Moshe Gutnick Pinhas Hirschprung Shneur Z. Fradkin Yaakov Schwei Yehuda K. Marlow Abraham Hecht Yitzchak Hendel Yosef Heller Yosef Y. Braun Zalman Dworkin Zelig Sharfstein Shmuel L. Medalia Shmarya Y. L. Medalia Sholom Rivkin
Mashpiim and scholars Aaron of Staroselye Shmuley Boteach Herman Branover Yehuda Chitrik Levi Cooper Manis Friedman Mendel Futerfas Yitzchak Ginsburgh Menachem Z. Greenglass Moshe Gutnick Moshe Havlin Zalman M. HaYitzchaki Aizel Homiler Simon Jacobson Yisroel Jacobson Yosef Y. Jacobson Yoel Kahn Abraham Y. Khein Yehoshua Mondshine Avraham C. Naeh Nissan Neminov Hillel Paritcher Ezra Schochet Adin Steinsaltz Shais Taub Sholom Dov Wolpo Shlomo Y. Zevin
Mazkirus and other leaders Leib Groner Jacob J. Hecht Chaim M. A. Hodakov Yehuda Krinsky Nissan Mindel Dovid Raskin Abraham Shemtov
Shluchim Moshe R. Azman Shmuley Boteach Menachem Brod Azriel Chaikin Shlomo Cunin Pinchus Feldman Gershon Garelik Yitzchok D. Groner Hanoch Hecht Gavriel Holtzberg Berel Lazar Shimon Lazaroff Chezki Lifshitz Sholom Lipskar David Masinter Yitzchok Moully Zalman I. Posner Menachem S. D. Raichik Aaron Raskin Arie Z. Raskin Shlomo Sawilowsky Mordechai Scheiner Abraham Shemtov Levi Shemtov Yehudah Teichtal Simcha Weinstein
Other notable figures Avraham Fried Benny Friedman Aharon Gurevich Joseph Gutnick Moshe Hecht Shea Hecht Bernard Levy Hendel Lieberman Michoel Muchnik Mendy Pellin Zvi Yair
Category  Media on Commons
v t e

Nissan Mindel was born in Riga, Latvia in March, 1912, one of nine children, to Yaakov Yitzchak and Bunia Mindel.[1] He left Riga for America by way of Sweden together with the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn and his entourage,[2] arriving at New York in March 1940,[3] and settled at Long Beach where he was one of the founders of the Young Israel of Long Beach.[4] He died in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in 1999.

Mindel served on the staff of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.[5][6] Nissan Mindel recorded a great deal of Chabad history and helped edit the memoirs of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak.[7]

Education

Mindel received his B.A. and M.A. from University of Manchester in England. In 1962 he earned a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University in New York.[5]

Published works

Mindel authored works published by Chabad's Kehot Publication Society including the first official translation of the Tanya in English.[6] His works include:

• The Tanya – the official Chabad English translation of Schneur Zalman of Liadi's Tanya
• Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi – a biography of the Chabad movement's founder
• The Philosophy of Chabad – a work exploring the central topics of Chabad philosophy
• The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Memoirs – a three-volume work tracing the roots of the Chabad movement
• The Letter and the Spirit – a compilation of the English correspondence of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, covering a range of Jewish topics
• Talks and Tales a monthly magazine for children
• My Prayer – a two-volume work on Jewish prayer
• Our People – a multi-volume work on Jewish history
• The Storyteller – a collection of Jewish children stories
• The Call of the Shofar – a book of Jewish children stories
• The Complete Festival Series – a multi-volume work on the Jewish holidays
• The Commandments – a short philosophical treatise on the Commandments

References

External links

• Articles by Nissan Mindel on Chabad.org

---