Yehuda Leib Schneersohn


Rabbi Yehuda Leib Schneersohn was a Ukrainian Habad Hasidic rabbi, the second son of Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, and founder and first leader of Kopust Hasidism.

Life and career

Known as the Maharil, he settled in Kopust a few months after the death of his father, when he and his brothers were not able to reach an agreement about the succession. He died two months later. He had three sons: