Kehot Publication Society has announced the publication of volume 16 of Igrot Kodesh, letters by the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Y. Schneersohn.
The Letters were compiled by Chabad scholar and historian Rabbi Shalom Dovber Levine, editor of the voluminous Igrot Kodesh series, which contains the letters of the seven Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbes.
The new volume, containing 559 letters from 1899 through 1929, written for the most part in Hebrew, brings the total of the Rebbe’s letters published thus far in this series to 6,254 letters.
Of special interest in this volume, according to Rabbi Yosef B. Friedman of Kehot, are numerous letters concerning the wedding of his daughter Rebbetzin Chaya Moussia to the future, seventh, Rebbe Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson. The wedding took place in Warsaw in 1928.
Other letters shed light on Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak’s herculean efforts to help alleviate the plight of Russian Jewry in general, and a fascinating account of his efforts to ship tens of containers of Passover matzoh to Russia.
Volume sixteen volume, as well as the complete catalog of Chabad-Lubavitch publications, is available online at Kehot.com.
The Kehot Publication Society, established in 1942 by the sixth Rebbe, is the world’s largest publisher of Jewish literature and has brought Torah education to nearly every Jewish community in the world.
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