By COLlive staff
The latest volume of “Studies in Rashi,” has recently been released by Kehot Publication Society, the official publishing arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
The new volume, on Chumash Devarim, completes the set of translated essays by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of blessed memory, on the commentary of Rashi on Chumash.
Beginning in late 1964, after the passing of his mother, Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson, the Rebbe began dedicating a segment of his weekly Shabbat public gatherings to the study of Rashi’s classic biblical commentary.
What soon emerged was an innovative method for both the study and analysis of the Torah’s pre-eminent commentator, and Torah study itself. These talks continued for more than twenty-five years, and many of them were edited by the Rebbe and appear in the Rebbe’s thirty-nine-volume magnum opus, Likkutei Sichot.
The new volume contains eleven complete essays on Chumash Devarim, translated by Rabbi Eliezer Danzinger. The essays are presented in a bi-lingual vowelized Hebrew/English format and like the previous volumes is fully annotated in Hebrew and English.
“The publication of Studies in Rashi aims to open this unique dimension of the Rebbe’s scholarship to the ever-growing numbers of English-speaking students aspiring to serious textual study,” said Rabbi Yosef B. Friedman at Kehot.
“To help the reader fully appreciate the essays, the volume is prefaced by a list of seventeen General Principles of Rashi which form the basis for the Rebbe’s unique methodology in Rashi study.
The set is further enhanced with a detailed bibliography and comprehensive index, and a handy ribbon page marker.
With Chumash Devarim’s study schedule just around the corner, this is the time to stock up on Studies with Rashi. It is available online at kehotonline.com or at your local bookstore. The complete is also available for purchase.
