Kehot Publication Society, the Chabad-Lubavitch publishing house, has announced the publication of Volume five, Devarim, in The Torah: With Interpolated English Translation and Commentary Based on the works of the Lubavitcher Rebbe set.
Vayikra, will be released next year, completing the entire Five Books of Moses.
The new work features a new translation of the Biblical text uniquely interpolated with Rashi, the classic Torah commentary, but as it is distilled in the interpretations of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s analytical Rashi studies.
An overview summarizes each section’s (parsha) place in the overall scheme of the Torah, based on the Rebbe’s teachings regarding the main “point” of each section.
“This enables the reader to see the Torah as a unified entity that forms a true book of “instruction” (the literal translation of “Torah”) relevant to our lives and times,” says Rabbi Moshe Wisnefsky, who headed the team of scholars and translators.
Many features of the new Chumash, such as maps, chronological charts, tables, and illustrations to aid the learning process were included to facilitate a deeper engagement with the text. Set beneath the text and running commentary is “Chasidic Insights,” that reflect lessons illuminated by the Rebbe, and occasionally his predecessors, going back as far as the founder of Chasidism, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov.
The new volume examines basic concepts and themes in Judaism, such as the Ten Commandments, the Shema, the laws of Kashrut, Prophecy, the Land of Israel, Marriage and Relationships and Personal Growth.
Some of the more esoteric points of this material, aimed for the reader who has already familiarized himself with the basics of Jewish mysticism, are separated into a third commentary, “Inner Dimensions.”
In addition to these English elements, this edition includes the full Hebrew text of the Torah, the Aramaic translation of Onkelos, and Rashi’s original commentary (vocalized for easy reading).
The text is cross-referenced in the footnotes for easy navigation throughout the text. The various texts are laid-out such that the verses do not break across pages, sparing the reader the need to flip back and forth constantly as he studies the material. Other design elements have been employed to make this edition especially “user-friendly.”
The previous volumes (Genesis, Exodus and Numbers) have been enthusiastically received by scholars and laymen alike, and praised for their comprehensiveness and originality.
The book may be pre-ordered at Kehot.com
I fully agree.
However, you failed to report that the Kehot Chumash has nearly every single insight the Rebbe ever spoke or wrote! Not just EVERY Rashi sicha (Gutnick brings one or two per parsha), but every single peshat in niglah or chasidus.
Also, it brings from every single Rebbe beginning from the Baal Shem Tov. Quite a feat.
I too, never really understood the parsha till Imlearnt it in this Chumash.
My advice: go out and buy the Bereishis, Shemos, Bamidbar and Devorim today!
Kehot is your chumash if you want to understand what the parsha is saying. Its a great mixture of peshat and the Rebbe’s insights woven right into the translation of the pesukim. Its the only chumash that you can “read” the parsha from beginning to end and understand the pesukim. Gutnick is your chumash if you want really good summaries of the Rebbe’s sichos on the parsha. Saperstien is your chumash if you want to understand peshat in Rashi. As for me? I use all three. But if i could have only one i would absolutely choose the Kehot chumash.… Read more »
I have the previous volumes and they are truly incredible.
They lay out the parsha as if on a plate, ready to eat!
Great job!
Great Job! The Haggadah was great, Pirkay Avoth was amazing. the new annotated siddur and machzor are great. i am so happy that Chabad is alive and well in Brooklyn!!!
devvie, palm beach, FL
I am blown away by your new Chumash! I think it is one of the greatest achievements in Torah scholarship and the spreading of chassidus to the four corners of the world I have seen in my lifetime I can`t even imagine how many hours it would take for a newbie like me to gather together an understanding of chumash text with all the classic commentary and the deep insights of the Rebbe and then fit it all together as you have done with this new interpolated translation. I am sure it was a huge undertaking fitting all the insights… Read more »
This is truly “the Rebbe’s Chumash” as noticeable when looking at the thousands of references to the Rebbe’s sichos and mamorim.
It is a magnificent work. It changed my Chitas learning 100 percent.