Editing Shlichus (section)

==== By Our Rebbeim ====
The Chabad Rebbeim throughout the generations sent shluchim to strengthen and fortify Yiddishkeit and Chassidus - from the time of the Baal Shem Tov, founder of general Chassidus, then through his successor the Maggid of Mezritch, through the Alter Rebbe who established Chabad Chassidus, and our Rebbeim who followed. The shluchim of our Rebbeim were called Shadar (Shlucha D'Rabbanan). They traveled through towns and breathed life and faith into them.

During the period of the Rebbe Rashab, after the Communist revolution in 1917, a new era of shlichus began involving actual mesiras nefesh. The Rebbe sent shluchim to all Jewish towns in the Soviet Union: Russia, Georgia, and Bukhara, to establish mikvaos and chadarim. This work was strengthened by his son and successor, the Frierdiker Rebbe, who was even imprisoned because of it.

The Frierdiker Rebbe intensified the work of shlichus through his students - some of whom never returned - and laid the foundation for shlichus across all continents including America, Africa, and Australia.