Series Reaches 30 Volumes

By COLlive reporter

The Lubavitch publishing house, Kehot Publication Society, has just released two new works in the popular Chasidic Heritage Series which offers user-friendly English translations of classic chassidic discourses.

The new books will bring the series to 30 volumes, each featuring an extensive introduction and summary, a vowelized Hebrew text facing the translation, footnotes and commentary and source references for further study.

The first is “Faith and Knowledge,” a translation of a discourse delivered more than 200 years ago by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad and author of the Tanya and Shulchan Aruch Harav.

It discusses the fundamental concept of faith in G-d as compared to the imperative to “know” G-d, and how they complement and balance each other.

In it, the Alter Rebbe maps out a course of how to strengthen our faith that will continuously characterize our knowledge.

The second, is “All for the Sake of Heaven,” is a translation of a 1907 discourse by the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Shalom DovBer Schneersohn.

The Rebbe Rashab outlines a holistic lifestyle in which man can unleash tremendous divine energy through a seemingly simple and mundane activity such as eating, drinking, and business dealings, so that these can be carried out truly for the sake of heaven.

The translations in the series that has now reached 30 volumes have been thoughtfully prepared to facilitate the reader’s thorough comprehension without assuming much prior knowledge.

“When studying a discourse in this series,” says series’ editor Rabbi Avraham Vaisfiche, “You don’t feel like you’re reading a translation. It’s very readable yet it retains its faithfulness to the Hebrew text.”

Each volume includes a page displaying a facsimile of an original manuscript by the author of the discourse along with a portrait of that particular Rebbe. Certain books also contain biographical sketches of the Rebbes.

Purchase them at Kehot.com