Editing Liozna (section)

== History ==
The settlement of Liozna was established in 1525 in an area bordering between the Vitebsk district and the Orsha district in Belarus (White Russia), which was then under Polish government control, near the Smolensk train station. Many Jews settled in the area, and in 1654 reached its peak of Jewish settlement, when most of the settlement's residents were Jewish.

The Jewish community in the area belonged to the general stream of Judaism, which opposed the teachings of Chassidus. One of the city's residents, the grandfather of the Alter Rebbe's mother, Rabbi Avraham, became close to [[the Baal Shem Tov]] and began to spread the method of Chassidus among the city's residents.

Later, [[Rabbi Baruch The Father Of The Alter Rebbe|Rabbi Baruch]], Rabbi Avraham's son-in-law, bought an estate near the town of Liozna, where he worked the land and raised his children, primarily Rabbi Shneur Zalman - [[the Alter Rebbe]].