HebrewBooks Uploads Collection

By COLlive reporter

The writings of the Rebbe‘s talks in their original language of Yiddish has just been made available to the public in honor of Yud Shvat, the day the Rebbe accepted leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch 66 years ago.

Until now, the public only had access to original Yiddish Hancohos of the Sichos from the year 5710 (1950) through the year 5741 (1981) in the classic Sichos Kodesh set.

In honor of Yud Shvat, Vaad Hanochos Hatmimim, the publisher of these talks, has made the farbrengens held between the years 5742 and 5752 (1982-1992) available to the Jewish library website HebrewBooks.org.

Hebrewbooks.org has posted the first batch of these existing Hanochos, making them available to the general public with the click of a button. The collection can be viewed at http://hebrewbooks.org/latest.

“The sichos of these years are known to be longer and more all-encompassing than farbrengens in earlier years,” says Rabbi Simon Jacobson, author of the bestseller “Toward a Meaningful Life” and the Editor-in-Chief of Vaad Hanochos Hatmimim for over 14 years.

. They are uniquely global in their attitude, address the sheva mitzvos b’nei noach, lead into the topic of Moshiach and geula, and include many cornerstone sichos; establish the daily study of Rambam, mivtza sefer Torah, the Rebbe’s drive and personal plea of “asei lecho rav” and the unprecedented sichos about the Rebbetzin following 22 Shvat 5748.

This new collection also includes the original transcripts of the revolutionary farbrengens in which the Rebbe speaks about geulah, describes the work as having been completed, leaving us only with the remaining step of opening up our eyes. These are sichos which have a special place in the heart of all chassidim, as the blueprint for the final stage of bringing Moshiach.

Special acknowledgment was given to Rabbis Sholom Weinberg, Yossi Lew, Aaron Leib Raskin, and Menny Yusewitz who contributed kuntresim to the new collection, making their resources available to the broader public. Thanks to Sharshi Borisut for his diligent work in posting these materials.

People involved in the project appealed to the public, if anyone has a kuntres or sicha from these years that is not included in this collection, to email wisdomreb@meaningfullife.com enabling them to include it in this collection, so all those who seek to study the complete original hanochos of the Rebbe’s sichos may benefit.