Chabad.org announced this week that it is dedicating the various online Tanya lesson offerings in memory of Rabbi Yosef Wineberg obm, author and ruach ha’chayim of the acclaimed Lessons in Tanya series, whose shloshim will be marked this week.
Published and copyright by Kehot, after decades of the Rebbe’s personal meticulous editing and expounding, the series has won high regard for making Tanya accessible to the masses.
Rabbi Wineberg expressed his desire that family and friends study this work as a merit for his neshama. The Chabad.org team felt it appropriate to dedicate the collective online daily study by thousands of this invaluable work in his memory during the year of aveilus as well.
A new dedication will appear on all Tanya lessons on both its standard and mobile daily study sites, visible to all students, memorializing the work of Rabbi Wineberg.
Chabad.org first began offering daily lessons online almost two decades ago and has continuously upgraded the offerings and options available, regularly adding additional tracks from a growing team of scholars whose lessons are recorded in audio and video formats.
One can experience the full range of lessons on Chabad.org’s new daily study site that offers the full text of all lessons with English translation alongside integrated audio and video classes from their team of scholars. The daily study site is also available in six other languages as well as in mobile format for those on the go.
Begin studying today at http://beta.chabad.org/dailystudy
Rav Wineberg leaves such a legacy- what a way to memorialize it. truly each time someone studies the tanya he mamesh has a zchut. why only for the year?
We remember Rabbi Yossi Kazan sitting in his office in ULY Ocean Parkway and on his break working on the Chabad.org website. That was the same office where Rabbi Wineberg worked to fundraise for the United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth.
It was a row of offices, Kazan took Rabbi Katz office, after was the bookkeeper, after was Rabbi Korenblit, after was Rabbi Kotlarsky, after was Rabbi Wineberg, after was Rabbi Rosenfeld. Rabbi Gourary sat in another large office. We miss those great days. May Moshiach come soon.
The first time I met Rabbi Wineberg over 30 years ago, I greeted him “Sholom Alaichim Rebby“ . He looked at me with a puzzled expression on his face. I told him, you are the Rebby that has been teaching me Tanya from your sefer Shiurim Biseder Hatanya in yiddish. He has left an amazing legacy. SZ Rosenzweig Toronto
Just amazing the impact of R.Wineberg’s work.
I can humbly remember early 1990 when R.YY Kazen typed in plain text the lessons in tanya and broadcasted in email (years before the web woke up)…..