By COLlive reporter
A manuscript of chassidic teachings written over 200 years ago, found in the recently uncovered Schneerson Library temporarily placed by Russian authorities at the Jewish History Museum in Moscow, has come to light.
Penned by the second Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Dovber Schneerson, the Mitteler Rebbe, it provides a conclusion to a discourse delivered by his father, the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman on Shabbos Parshas Vaeirah 5568 (1807), which until now has never been published or seen by the public.
The discovery of this extraordinary manuscript, which discusses the ongoing impact of the Moshe in each generation even after his passing, could not be more timely – days before the 20th anniversary of the Rebbe’s yartzeit on Gimmel Tammuz.
Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Dean of The Meaningful Life Center in New York and author of the bestseller “Towards a Meaningful Life,” announced and publicized this new discovery in his popular weekly email column, titled “The Silent Sun.”
He said that this manuscript, with the fascinating example of the sun always shining day and night, “can perhaps shed some ‘light’ on the stoppage of the sun on Gimmel Tammuz: The sun may be silent and its movement may have paused, but it continues to shine one way or another – either directly or through its reflection in the moon and the stars.”
Rabbi Jacobson thanks Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Keller for making him aware of the manuscript, and transcribing it. The translation was done by Rabbi Yisroel Glick, an editor at the Meaningful Life Center, and edited by Rabbi Jacobson.
The beginning of this Vaeirah discourse is printed in Ohr HaTorah of the Tzemech Tzedek Parshat Va’eirah p.165-166.
What was found was a facsimile of the actual Mitteler Rebbe’s transcript, which includes the continuation and conclusion of the discourse, together with the actual Hebrew text, followed by a loose translation in English – all published here for the very first time – in honor of and apropos to Gimmel Tammuz.
Read Rabbi Jacobson’s elucidation of the topic and lessons to be learned in relation with Gimmel Tammuz at www.meaningfullife.com. Read the original text here
I hear that there are hagohos from the Tzemech Tzedek on this discourse. We would appreciate it if Rabbi Sholom Ber Levin, Aguch librarian, would please post those for the benefit of the public?
See Tanya Iggeret HaKodesh end of the biur of epistle 27 and the Rebbe’s haaros there.
Rabbi Jacobson teaches and explain this mammar in his latest MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 23.
All the links (both to the original Hebrew and English translation) are at the end of the COL article.
Is there a link to the transcription of the maamar
“The sun …continues to shine…either directly or through its reflection in the moon and the stars.”
The sun shines by reflection through the stars? Don’t stars emit their own light and only moon(s) reflect(s) the sun?
Gimmel Tammuz is not the rebbe’s yahrzeit. If you can’t see Him, it’s one thing, but you shouldn’t be deciding what happened to the rebbe.
Unbelieveable! Nothing like reading the words of the Rebbeim themselves. Every family should read this piece on Gimmel Tammuz.
Greatest yesher koach.
where can i get the hebrew text
could u pls post the english TY