The publishing house of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hassidic sect has announced the publication of the 26th volume of Igrot Kodesh (‘Holy Epistles’) by the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. The hefty 600-page volume contains some 420 letters from the years 1969 and 1970 alone, written mostly in Hebrew. Close to 10,000 of Rabbi Schneerson’s letters have already been published.
The letters include correspondence with statesmen, homemakers, chief rabbis, Bar/Bat Mitzvah boys and girls, scientists, communal leaders and laymen all over the globe who wrote to the revered Rabbi for advice. The publisher hopes the new volume can “offer insight to the growth of Chabad-Lubavitch as a worldwide organization, and its impact on post-Holocaust Jewish life.”
The topics covered in the letters ranges from Jewish law and Hassidic philosophy to the Jewish perspective on science and politics. “But many turn to these letters,” writes the publisher, “because of the insightful guidance they offer on a human, personal level concerning relationships, personal development and social and communal affairs.”
This volume is to include letters dealing with the Rabbi’s campaign to stabilize Jewish neighborhoods, his campaign to increase the number of Jews putting on Teffilin (Phylacteries prescribed by the Bible) as well as issues dealing with the ceding of parts of the Land of Israel, which the late Rabbi ardently opposed.
The Igrot Kodesh series containing the prolific correspondence of seven leaders of Chabad-Lubavitch presently contains 48 volumes, beginning with the correspondence of Rabbi Schneur Zalman, founder of Chabad-Lubavitch, up to Volume 26 of Rabbi Schneerson’s correspondence.
The Kehot Publication Society, established in 1942 by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, claims to be the world’s largest publisher of Jewish literature and has brought Torah education to nearly every Jewish community in the world. Millions of volumes have been disseminated to date and have been translated into Russian, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Farsi, Arabic, Hebrew and Yiddish. Their stated goal is to “satisfy the thirst for knowledge for which ‘The People of the Book’ have always been identified.”
The letters include correspondence with statesmen, homemakers, chief rabbis, Bar/Bat Mitzvah boys and girls, scientists, communal leaders and laymen all over the globe who wrote to the revered Rabbi for advice. The publisher hopes the new volume can “offer insight to the growth of Chabad-Lubavitch as a worldwide organization, and its impact on post-Holocaust Jewish life.”
The topics covered in the letters ranges from Jewish law and Hassidic philosophy to the Jewish perspective on science and politics. “But many turn to these letters,” writes the publisher, “because of the insightful guidance they offer on a human, personal level concerning relationships, personal development and social and communal affairs.”
This volume is to include letters dealing with the Rabbi’s campaign to stabilize Jewish neighborhoods, his campaign to increase the number of Jews putting on Teffilin (Phylacteries prescribed by the Bible) as well as issues dealing with the ceding of parts of the Land of Israel, which the late Rabbi ardently opposed.
The Igrot Kodesh series containing the prolific correspondence of seven leaders of Chabad-Lubavitch presently contains 48 volumes, beginning with the correspondence of Rabbi Schneur Zalman, founder of Chabad-Lubavitch, up to Volume 26 of Rabbi Schneerson’s correspondence.
The Kehot Publication Society, established in 1942 by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, claims to be the world’s largest publisher of Jewish literature and has brought Torah education to nearly every Jewish community in the world. Millions of volumes have been disseminated to date and have been translated into Russian, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Farsi, Arabic, Hebrew and Yiddish. Their stated goal is to “satisfy the thirst for knowledge for which ‘The People of the Book’ have always been identified.”