The Rebbe’s seforim printed to date, that fill many shelves, are an incredible picture.
What was once 150 seforim is today closer to 300 printed volumes of the Rebbe’s sichos, maamarim, igros, reshimos and farbrengens. And as the years go on more of the Rebbe’s previously unpublished works are continuing to be printed.
From all these books, however, one set stands out as unique. It’s the largest of all the sets and the closest to the original.
“Sichos Kodesh” – a 50 volume set containing the original transcripts of the Rebbe’s farbrengens spanning the years 5710-5741.
Unique in its original form, these books were transcribed throughout the years by various choizrim, who immediately after the Rebbe’s farbrengen would attend a chazara, after which together they would pen a transcript of the Rebbe’s words at the farbrengen in their original Yiddish.
The set is also unique in that the transcribers varied throughout the years and did not all belong to a specific organization.
The ‘hanachos’ of the years 5710-5726 were mostly authored by Reb Yoel Kahn, under no official organization. This changed in 5725-5726 when Reb Avraham Gerlitzky began penning personal hanachos for friends and family members. When word got out, Reb Bentzion Shemtov provided an office in 770 for Reb Avraham, insisting that the organization become official, which it did – under the leadership of Reb Noske Wolff – much to the skepticism of many elderly chassidim.
Thus began the Vaad Hanachos Hatmimim, throughout the years hosting many bochurim in its editorial team, notably (-5741) Rabbis Leibel Shapiro, Zev Katz, Yossi Hecht, Hirshel Notik, Dovid Feldman and Simon Jacobson. Rabbis Feldman and Jacobson would take on lead roles in the Vaad from 5735 and 5740 respectively.
During the year 5745, bochurim (Rabbis) Yoske Greenberg and Gershon Eichorn undertook the initiative of collecting all the hanachos previously printed, thereby printing the set of Sichos Kodesh for the very first time in the year 5748. Since then, there have been numerous printings throughout the years by various individuals.
As reported on COLlive, Halikut will be gifting a full set of Sichos Kodesh to each of the bochurim who will be passing the Halikut test for their third year.
In conjunction with Halikut’s third year, a special offer is available for the public to purchase the full 50 volume set for an unprecedentedly low price of $890 dollars.
This offer is available only for the next 34 hours. Don’t miss out!
Secure your set, which has a top-quality, well-made binding, today for $890 dollars with just a $100 deposit (included in the $890 total).
Order now at SK18.org.
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Can it be delivered in France ?