Editing Menachem Mendel Schneerson (Son of The Rebbe Maharash) (section)

== Biography ==
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was born to the Rebbe Maharash and his mother Rebbetzin Rivka on 6 Adar 5627/1867. Rabbi Menachem Mendel was born during the year of mourning for the Tzemach Tzedek and was named after him. In 5633/1873, he was registered together with his brother R' Avraham Sender Schneerson in the "Malbish Arumim" ledger.

Once as a child, he asked his father where Hashem is located, and the Rebbe Maharash answered him that "His glory fills the entire earth." The Rebbe notes in his writings in the name of the Frierdiker Rebbe that despite being a child, he accepted this answer.

On 6 Adar 5640/1880, his bar mitzvah celebration was held, and his father the Rebbe Maharash recited a maamar beginning with "Let us make man, etc., in our image, after our likeness." At his bar mitzvah age, he wrote a long poem in Aramaic known among chassidim as "Masa HaHiskashrus" (The Discourse on Connection), in which he greatly praises his father with extraordinary praise.

On 14 Sivan 5642/1882, he married in his first marriage to Mrs. Sarah, daughter of Rabbi Akiva Kornitzer from Krakow - son-in-law of Rabbi Shimon Sofer, author of "Michtav Sofer," and grandson of the "Chasam Sofer." At the wedding, which took place in Lubavitch, the Rebbe Maharash recited several chassidic discourses. That same year, he was accepted into the Mitzvos society in Lubavitch. After several months, he divorced his wife. In the winter of 5646/1886, he began to engage in business.

He assisted his brother, the Rebbe Rashab, in communal work and was sent by him on many missions.

In 5648/1888, he married in his second marriage to Rebbetzin Batya, daughter of Rabbi Nachum Dov Ber of Ovruch (son of Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak of Ovruch), sister of Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah (wife of the Rebbe Rashab).

In 5662/1902, he was already living in Vitebsk and was in partnership with his brother-in-law R' Moshe Aryeh Leib Ginzburg in business. After the Frierdiker Rebbe was arrested that year, RaMaM helped secure his release.

[[File:מצבה בן המהרש.jpg|thumb|His Renovated Tombstone in Tzfat (Iyar 5771/May 2011)]]
The Rebbe related in one of his talks:<blockquote>"My father-in-law, the Rebbe, told that his uncle (the younger brother of the Rebbe Rashab) once translated a concept from Chassidus into Russian, in order to influence one of the dignitaries and influential figures in Russian society at that time. But this was a one-time event, and it was not known or publicized (nor was it known what kind of effect it had), and not in an organized manner, obviously." — Sicha of Parshas Vayeshev, 5748/1988</blockquote>Due to his economic situation, he was forced to leave Russia, and in 5664/1904 moved to live in Paris, France, leaving his family in Lubavitch.

Later, he moved to the French territory of Corsica, where he established a mechanical wood-chopping factory in the city of Bastia. (In Corsica, there was a Jewish community established at the end of the 19th century with the first Jewish immigration to it. The Jews who came to the island settled in the city of Bastia where Rabbi Menachem Mendel lived.)

He passed away on 23 Tishrei 5702/1941 in the city of Bastia, and was buried there.
[[File:תעודת פטירה של מנחם מענדל שניאורסון (בן אדמו"ר המהר"ש).jpg|thumb|Death Certificate of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.]]