Menachem Mendel

Menachem Mendel (Menahem Mendl) is a masculine Jewish first name. The name is sometimes used as either just Menachem or just Mendel. Menachem means to console or comfort, Mendel is a diminutive of Menachem. In 2005, Menachem was the 79th most popular name for boys, and the 38th most popular for white boys, born in New York City,^[1] and 971st most popular name for boys born in the USA.^[2]

Notable people with this name include:

• Menachem Mendel Krochmal of Nikolsburg (c. 1600 – 1660), known as the "Tzemach Tzedek"
• Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk (c.1730 – c.1787), early leader of Hasidic Judaism and primary disciple of Dovber of Mezeritch, also known as "Menachem Mendel of Horodok".
• Menachem Mendel of Rimanov (1745 – 1815), Torah scholar and student of Elimelech of Lizhensk
• Menachem Mendel Lefin (1749–1826), early leader of the Haskalah
• Menachem Mendel Hager of Kosov (1768 – 1825), founding Rebbe of Kosov
• Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (1787 – 1859), Hassidic Rebbe, and student of Simcha Bunim of Peshischa
• Menachem Mendil Hager, the first Vizhnitzer Rebbe, also known as the "Tzemach Tzadik"
• Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789 – 1866), the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, also known as the "New Tzemach Tzedek", or the "Tzemach Tzedek of Lubavitch"
• Menahem Mendel Beilis (1874 - 1934) who was wrongly accused of ritual murder
• Menachem Mendel Kasher (1895 – 1983), rabbi and author of the encyclopedic Torah Shleima
• Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902 – 1994), the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe
• Menachem Mendel Taub (1923 – 2019), Holocaust survivor and Rebbe of Kaliv (Hasidic dynasty)
• Menachem Mendel Hager (b. 1957), Rebbe of Vizhnitz

Fictional characters

• Menahem-Mendl, Sholem Aleichem's character from a series of tales collected into books