The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2240 page)

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Shizen n
h
(agriculture following nature):
Shne’ur Zalman of Lyady
(1745–1813)
. Founder of the
abad
asidism
movement in Judaism. A student of
Dov Baer
, he was set to compose an up-to-date
Shul
n Arukh
(publ. 1814). He became the
asidic leader of Reisen in 1788. By 1801 he was settled in Lyady and known as the ‘
Rav
of Lyady’. His
Likkutei Amarim
(Collected Sayings) is the principal text of the movement. The work is also known as
Tanya
and is, unlike most
asidic works, a systematic exposition. It is often referred to as the ‘written law of the
abad’; and Shne’ur Zalman is known as Ba‘al ha-Tanya.

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