The Avrutch branch of the

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movement was founded after the death of the third

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of Chabad, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn. The group was one of several that sought to succeed Rabbi Menachem Mendel, whose death created a dispute over his succession. The group was led by its founder, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Avrutch (1822–1876) a son of Rabbi Menachem Mendel, who assumed the role of rebbe in the town of

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.Dalfin, Chaim. The Tzemach Tzedek. "The Seven Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbes". Jason Aronson. The Avrutch Rebbe's daughter, Shterna Sara Schneersohn, married her cousin, the fifth Chabad Rebbe, Sholom Dovber Schneersohn; through whom the Avrutch Rebbe became the maternal grandfather of the sixth Chabad Rebbe, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn.

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