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by Santiago Dotor and Dov Gutterman, based on this website
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Chabad is a religious Jewish Hassidic movement known also as Chabad Lubavitch. The movement is using flags with a crown and the Hebrew word Mashiakh (Messiah) on yellow. I took this picture of a flag at Zefat. There is a logo in this website.
Dov Gutterman, 30 September 2001
From their website:
Chabad-Lubavitch is a philosophy, a movement, and an organization. (...) The word "Chabad" is a Hebrew acronym for the three intellectual faculties of: chachmah-wisdom, binah-comprehension and da'at-knowledge. (...) The word "Lubavitch" is the name of the town in White Russia where the movement was based for more than a century. Appropriately, the word Lubavitch in Russian means the "city of brotherly love". (...) Following its inception 250 years ago, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement swept through Russia and spread in surrounding countries as well. (...)
Dov Gutterman, 30 September 2001
The crown on this flag comes from the common belief that th
