By COLlive reporter
Lubavitchers across the United States received this week a small box in the mail with a precious treasure inside: The new volume 60 of Toras Menachem-Hisvaduyos.
The volume includes the Rebbe’s talks and discourses delivered during the months of Nissan through Sivan of 5730 (1970) published by Vaad Hanachos B’Lahak in cooperation with Kehot Publication Society.
Some highlights of the talks in this volume include:
● A discussion on the jubilee of the passing of the Rabbi Shalom Dovber, the fifth Rebbe, and the automatic passing of the mantle of leadership to his son and successor, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak, the sixth Rebbe.
● The duty of the Israeli students who travel to the United States to study Torah – to be meticulous with their time, and the imperative for them to be totally immersed in their studies, without distractions of any sort.
● Nearly in every farbrengen, the Rebbe mentions (his voice often choking up and his eyes forming tears), the plight of Chasidim still in the Soviet Union, trapped behind the “Iron Curtain.” He showers them with boundless material and spiritual blessings, wishing them a speedy release from their incarcerated state. In one particular talk the Rebbe extolls the virtue of those mothers who selflessly encourage their husbands and children to study Torah clandestinely, in attics and cellars.
● The Rebbe’s famous battle for giyur k’halacha was (publicly) launched by the Rebbe at the Purim farbrengen of this year. The present volume is replete with the Rebbe’s call for the rectification of the Law of Return to include the words: k’halacha.
The book also includes 5 responses from the Rebbe, written to the editors who transcribed the farbrengens. They are incorporated within the completed essays.
Vaad Hanachos B’Lahak is the official publisher of the Rebbe’s talks in Hebrew, directed by Rabbi Chaim Shaul Brook and staffed by veteran scholars of the Rebbe’s teachings, Rabbis Yoel Kahan, Dovid Feldman and Yisroel S. Kalmanson.
They are assisted by a dedicated team of experts: Rabbis Hirshel Notik, Dovid Olidort, Menachem M. Kaplan, Aaron L. Raskin, Eliezer Twersky, Yisroel Y. Silberstrom, Moshe Zaklikowsky and Yeshaye Marantz.
What recipients of the volume don’t know is the coordinated effort to have the book arrive to Lahak subscribers in time for Yud Aleph Nissan, the Rebbe’s 115th birthday.
The new volume was printed in the Yad Hachamisha printing house in Kfar Chabad, Israel, run by Benzion Sheinberger, and will only be sold at Kehot Showroom in Crown Heights and in U.S. stores after Pesach.
Lahak directors went out of their way to deliver it to Toras Menachem subscribers, using Chaim Zavdi‘s shipping service. Once the books arrived in the US, they were immediately brought to the postal service for express shipping to subscribers.
Lahak says they’ve done this out of loyalty to their subscribers but also because the publication of this volume has reached a milestone: For the very first time, all the talks and discourses delivered at farbrengens during the first 20 years of the Rebbe’s leadership (1950-1970) are now in print.
In order to subscribe, etc. that is. No information is given here.
There is an interesting story behind the Sicha with the Rebbe’s notes printed above. Rabbi Yosef Minkowitz, then a bochur in 770, was in charge of preparing the Rebbe’s weekday Sichos for publication. In those days most Sichos were published only after many days (or weeks) after the Sicha was said by the Rebbe. On Sunday, 25 Iyar 5730, the Rebbe said a Sicha for the participants in the Nshei Chabad Convention. An effort was made to publish the Sicha as quickly as possible. Two reel-to-reel tape-recorders were used to record the Sicha in an adjacent office. After a few… Read more »
Every lubavitcher should have his hand in publishing the Rebbe’s sichos.
If you cant afford to give big money, the least you can do is subscribe;
the more subscribers they have, the most security there is for them when they print a volume. they know that they will get a certain amount of buyers automatically.
(aside for the importance of owning the books, which stands on its own…)
I got it two nights ago, and I perused it right away;
it is full of amazing sichos and stuff