Kopust
Branch of the Chabad movement / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about a branch of a Hasidic dynasty. For kopūst, the Lithuanian sour fermented cabbage, see Sauerkraut.
The Kopust branch of the Chabad dynasty of Hasidic Judaism was founded in 1866 by Yehuda Leib Schneersohn after the death of his father Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the third Chabad rebbe. It is named after the town of Kopys in the Vitebsk Region of present-day Belarus, where Yehuda Leib Schneersohn settled after his father's death.