By COLlive reporter
Two weeks before Lag B’omer–considered to be the day of Mattan Torah for Penimius Hatorah–Kehot Publication Society released a new edition of Imrei Binah by the Mitteler Rebbe.
A classic of Chasidic thought and one of its profoundest, Imrei Binah was penned by the second leader of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi Dovber, specifically for his choicest and most brilliant chassidim.
First published in 1821, this sublime discourse explores the unity of G-d as expressed in the Shema. Imrei Binah is indispensable in gaining a deeper understanding of the Unity of G-d, and an invalubale addition to any Judaic library.
A recently discovered synopsis by the sixth leader of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of each of the chapters of Imrei Binah, has been printed here, for the first time, as a supplement. Other supplements include facsimiles of Rabbi Dovber’s manuscript.
“The new edition contains several important additions,” says Rabbi Yosef B. Friedman of the Chabad-Lubavitch publishing house, “a detailed Table of Contents and comprehensive indexes. This will hopefully open a door to its treasures for scholar and layman alike.”
The Table of Contents and Index of Verses and Rabbinic Teachings was prepared by Rabbi Tzvi Zalmanov of Teveria, Israel. Rabbi Michael Golomb prepared the Index of Subjects.
The original editors of this important work are Rabbis Eliyahu Matusof and Gavriel Schapiro, members of the Chabad Research Center-Maareches Otzar Hachasidim.
Numerous errors that had made their way into the text were corrected in this new edition of 592 pages, and many new glosses and footnotes were added to the text.
The sefer is available at the Kehot Showroom in Crown Heights and online at Kehot.com.
