Rabbi Menachem Brod (; or last name alternative spelled Brodt) is a senior

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rabbi from

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. He is the spokesman of the Chabad youth movement center ''Tze'irei Agudas Chabad'' in Israel and the editor of the nationally distributed Chabad weekly pamphlet ''Sichat HaShavua''. After the passing of previous Chabad spokesman Berke Volf, Brod became almost the only official Chabad spokesman in the Israeli media. He also has a regular column in the local weekly magazine known as the ''Kfar Chabad'' and is considered a popular

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writer.

Life

Brod was born in Ches

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5720 (9 December 1959) in

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. At age five his family made an

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. in his teens he learnt in the Chabad Yeshiva in

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and Kefar Chabad. For the school year of 1981 he spent in

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learning in the Central Lubavitch Yeshiva. Brod married Miriam (Ruderman). After he married he went on Shlichus in Bat-Yam. later on he moved to Kefar Chabad. In the year 1983 he began working (as the publicity manager) for ''Tze'irei Agudas Chabad'' in Israel. in 1986 He became spokesman of the Chabad youth movement center ''Tze'irei Agudas Chabad'' in Israel. The following year (1987) he began publishing the nationally distributed Chabad weekly pamphlet ''Sichat HaShavua''.

Works

* ''Yemot HaMashiach'' on the belief in the ''

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'' * "Lehavin Chasidus" explain common concepts in the Chabad Chasidic thought (2018) * "Me'imkei Nishmas" Chassidic explanations on the prayer of

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(2019)

References

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