Editing Shmuel Schneersohn (section)

==Biography==
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Shmuel Schneersohn was born in [[Lyubavichi, Rudnyansky District, Smolensk Oblast|Lyubavichi]], on 2 Iyar 5594 (1834),<!--Hebcal website says that this date equals 11 May 1834; not 29 April--> the seventh son of [[Menachem Mendel Schneersohn]]. He faced competition from three of his brothers, primarily from [[Yehuda Leib Schneersohn]] who established a dynasty in [[Kopys|Kapust]] upon their father's death. Other brothers also established dynasties in [[Lyady, Vitebsk Region|Lyady]], [[Nizhyn]], and [[Ovruch]].<ref>''Sefer HaToldot Rav Shmuel, Admor Maharash'', Glitzenstein, A. H.</ref>

In 1848, Schneersohn was married to the daughter of his brother, Chaim Shneur Zalman Schneersohn. After several months she died, and he then married Rivkah, a granddaughter of his own grandfather [[Dovber Schneuri]]. He had three sons, Zalman Aharon, [[Sholom Dovber Schneersohn|Shalom Dovber]], and Menachem Mendel, as well as one daughter, Devorah Leah.{{fact|date=March 2021}}

Schneersohn was said to have had chariots on call for the evacuation of books in time of fire.<ref>''The Messiah of Brooklyn: Understanding Lubavitch Hasidim Past and Present'', M. Avrum Ehrlich, ch.16 note.12, KTAV Publishing, {{ISBN|0-88125-836-9}}</ref>

Besides his communal activism, he had wide intellectual interests. He spoke several languages, including [[Latin]].<ref name="ilo">''Encyclopedia of Hasidism, entry: Schneersohn, Shmuel''. Naftali Lowenthal. Aronson, London 1996. {{ISBN|1-56821-123-6}}</ref> He wrote widely on a range of religious and secular topics, and much of his writing has never been published and remains in manuscript form alone.<ref name="ilo"/> His discourses began to be published for the first time under the title ''Likkutei Torat Shmuel'' in 1945 by [[Kehot]], and 12 volumes have so far been printed.<ref name="ilo"/>

He died in Lyubavichi, on 13 Tishrei 5643 (1882), <!--Hebcal gives 26 September for 13 Tishrei--> leaving three sons and two daughters, and was succeeded by his son Sholom Dovber.<ref name="ilo"/>

Schneersohn urged the study of [[Kabbalah]] as a prerequisite for one's humanity:
<blockquote>A person who is capable of comprehending the ''[[seder hishtalshelus]]'' (kabbalistic secrets concerning the coming-into-being of all existence every moment) - and fails to do so - cannot be considered a human being. At every moment and time one must know where his soul stands. It is a [[mitzvah]] (commandment) and an obligation to know the ''seder hishtalshelus''.<ref>[http://www.sichosinenglish.org/books/sefer-hatoldos-admur-maharash/09.htm ''Sefer HaToldos Admur Maharash''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070514105202/http://www.sichosinenglish.org/books/sefer-hatoldos-admur-maharash/09.htm |date=2007-05-14 }}</ref></blockquote>