[2] He was the scion of a rabbinic family tracing lineage to the 11th century and a direct descendant of the famed author of the Minchat Chinuch, after whom he was named.
[2] In 1939, Babad moved to the Netherlands, where he worked with the Vaad Hatzalah facilitating Jews in their escape from Nazi Germany.
[3] According to his student, Rabbi Stewart Weiss, he said he is making an aliyah because: I can no longer watch from afar as our brothers in Israel daily risk their lives for our future, and not be a part of them, and so, I am fulfilling what must be the destiny of every Jew.
[2] Babad authored various articles in scholarly publications on Jewish philosophy and history in Hebrew, German and English.
He provided testimony on pre-Holocaust Austrian Jewry for Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, and published a study on "Halacha and Aggadah in [the] Septuagint."