It is no secret that in Lubavitch, the written word is highly regarded. No other Chassidus has so many volumes of holy books as we, from the holy works of our Rebbeim, to the heoros of the Tmimim.
The Otzar Hachochmo staff, which has done tremendous work scanning all sifrei kodesh and making them available to the public, is well aware of this. They are about to release a Lubavitcher edition of Otzar Hachochmo, with 3,750 sifrei Chabad scanned page by page in the original. For one month, the software will be available free of charge.
Rabbi Erez Sela, one of the project heads, said that after the first edition of the Otzar was issued, he began to get requests from Lubavitcher Chassidim to include their sforim in the works. “After many requests, we started to look into the matter and were excited when we were exposed to the varied sifrei Chabad that were written throughout the centuries. We approached the Lubavitch publishers to receive permission to include the sforim. Slowly other books came our way- many sforim documenting Lubavitcher history with its’ unique way of life. This is how the Chabad edition of Otzar Hachochmo got off the ground.”
Yes, it is indeed wondrous to witness the final product of the project of Otzar Hachochmo, working in conjunction with Kehos – a tremendous computerized resource of Lubavitcher sforim, not only those that are available at Kehos, or were sold twenty years ago, but also rare sforim 150 yeqars old, the entire Kehos collection, sforim that were printed in limited editions, all heoros and pilpulim from the entire world from 5719 and up, tshuros fron 5752 and up, albums and history books, magazines and more.
This collection is easy to use and helpful, with 150 sforim on Biurei Tanya, 200 kovtzim on the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchon Oruch, hundreds of kuntresim on varied topics (as the latest ones on Hakhel, Mikveh a”g Mikveh, reciting the N’siim and more).
Chassidishe history plays a big part in the resource pool with many likutim of Chassidishe stories, and personal histories of various Chassidim, all containing priceless information and wisdom.
The tshuros need no introduction. Each one is a treasure chest of yechidus, pirsum rishon, ksav yad kodesh, personal diaries and much more, most of it never printed before.
The crowning glory of the Otzar, is the free text search engine for all 3750 sforim, faster than the speed of lightening. One can find anything he desires, from his grandfather’s name to a story connected to a specific date. The sky’s the limit.
One can find a story in a tshura, an old Bitaon Chabad volume or a yoman, and entering a posuk in the search engine will bring all the pertinent sforim, explanations and much more, all in a matter of a few seconds.
Yes, this is a true treasure that each and everyone can enjoy and benefit from, be he a Rov, Shliach, melamed, or regular Chossid. All this is in addition to the Otzar resource with 30,900 volumes of general Torah literature. The Chabad Otzar is for sale with or without the general Otzar.
Otzar Hachochmo wishes to remind Anash that the Chabad addition will be available free of charge for the next month. Try it, you’ll like it!
i dont understand u people what connection does the layman have to academia this is a major disconnection with these people and with the regular person who just tries to take little penetrating vertelach and tries to use them for some sort of temporary energy to keep spiritually living like how many people need the whole jewish music or one of those mega-libraries on their ipod be well clarification would be nice it seems to be more a service to the people who made it more then the people who would recieve it what type of projected use are they… Read more »
where can we get a copy of this from??
How can we get a copy