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Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, also Sholom Ber Wolpe,〔Or any number of combinations of these names, when transliterated into English.〕 (, born 1948) is a rabbi and an Israeli political activist. Wolpo is the author of more than forty books. He has become associated in recent years with right-wing political causes, and has set up a campaign group—SOS Israel—an organization that runs press and billboard campaigns promoting the belief that surrender of parts of the Land of Israel is prohibited by halacha, and the idea of "Greater Israel". Later, in 2008, Wolpo established an additional group opposing land concessions, Our Land of Israel.〔Efrat Weiss. (Marzel, Rabbi Wolpo to run for Knesset ). Ynetnews 15 December 2008〕 He also has called for an independent country called the State of Judea be established in the West Bank. ==Chabad messianism== Rabbi Wolpo is one of the leaders of the group of Chabad Chasidim believing that the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, is the messiah. He was one of the first to openly describe Rabbi Schneerson as the Messiah. In 1984 he wrote a book proclaiming the Rebbe as Moshiach.〔''The Revelation of Melech HaMashiach (King Messiah), "Yechi HaMelech"'', Sholom Ber Wolpo, "The Committee for Fulfilling the Rebbe's Directives"〕 However, after a public address by Rabbi Schneerson in which he said that “such a book can cause hundreds of Jews to stop learning Chassidus, and oppose the Baal Shem Tov and his teachings," he did not publish the book. The book was later published in 1991 with Rabbi Schneerson's blessings. In an interview with Israeli Channel 2 evening news in March 1994, he told an interviewer that Rabbi Schneerson's place as the Messiah and the fact of his "eternal life" was "as secure as the rising of the sun in the morning." He wrote a number of books of critique on the writings of Elazar Man Shach, leader of Lithuanian Haredim—a prominent opponent of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement and of Rabbi Schneerson himself—under the title ''Yedaber Shalom''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shalom Dov Wolpo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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