Kabbalah,Mysticism & Chassidus

  1. A Torah discourse of the Lubavitcher Rebbe usually revolves around a question, sometimes a seemingly microscopic tension, serving as a point of departure for the Rebbe`s discussion. To hear or read such a discussion is to embark on a journey in which we are challenged and forced to move, and at the end stand far from where we began.

    Here, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, serves as guide to that journey, elucidating the question in each discourse and explaining its context.

    In this collection of lucid adaptations of the Rebbe's talks on the weekly Torah readings and Jewish holidays, each question is not only resolved but also revealed to be the starting point of a major spiritual search, a journey to the inner sanctum of Torah.

    With descriptive introductions to each chapter and extensive indexes, Torah Studies is an important gateway to the Rebbe's teachings and legacy. Learn More

  2. English literature available on Chassidus has increased tenfold throughout the years, having us witness a real breakthrough in this regard. Hundreds of classical Chassidic texts have been translated and annotated by renowned writers and publishers. The monumental work of Tanya has been translated, explained, and disseminated in English throughout all corners of the globe. Nonetheless, we find that one of the greatest works of Chassidic thought has not yet found its way onto the English bookshelf, the Mamarim of Torah Or and Likkutei Torah of the Alter Rebbe. These works are considered to be the Oral Torah of the Tanya and are hence complementary to it. The Mamarim of Torah Or and Likkutei Torah are the foundation of most of the Mamarim of Chassidus of all the later generations. One of the reasons for the lack of an English counterpart for this Sefer is because of its great depth and advanced Kabbalistic jargon. It is our great honor to offer the English-speaking public the first full English counterpart for the great, illustrious works of Torah Or and Likkutei Torah. The Sefer includes a single Mamar per Parsha, which is summarized, explained, and brought into practical application for the reader. The Mamarim are not a direct translation of the Hebrew original, but rather a content summary of the Mamar. At times, due to the extended length of a certain Mamar, we may only summarize a certain section of the Mamar, and not the Mamar in its entirety. Each Parsha features a single selected Mamar from amongst the many Mamarim that are printed in the Hebrew original, giving our readers a taste and glimpse of the full content of this monumental work. Our main goal is for the reader to receive the content knowledge of the most fundamental Mamarim written by the Alter Rebbe, and for him to be given the tools for how to implement this knowledge within his daily life. Each Mamar concludes with a lessons box that summarizes the practical life lessons that we can derive from the Mamar. Also included are interesting parables that we find easy to relate to and help us to digest the content being studied, and internalize it. It is our heartfelt prayer that the Mamarim in this Sefer will uplift your spiritual experience and give you spiritual hope, faith, love, and trust in Hashem, being the light that illuminates your relationship with G-d. Learn More
  3. An astoundingly clear adaptation of Tanya, one of the most influential works of Jewish spiritual thought ever written, penned by Chasidic Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1812).

    Letter on Repentance is a one of the clearest and most enduring guides to repentance and spiritual rehabilitation, from the perspective of Kabbalah, Chasidus and classical Jewish sources.

    Volume Three is a complete and independent work which stands on its own and does not require the prior study of Volumes One or Two. Many readers, in fact, find this volume in particular the best gateway to the world of Chasidic thought.

    This new translation and commentary, by best-selling author Rabbi Chaim Miller, renders the text relevant for the contemporary reader with elegant simplicity. The Practical Tanya will guide you on the path of spiritual consciousness to a state of inner freedom and liberation. Learn More

  4. A Call to Action Amidst the Inferno Sefer HaSichos 5703: The Sichos of (5703: 1942-1943) Talks delivered in 5703 (1942-1943) by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the Sixth Lubavitcher RebbeImagine the excitement of being invited to the Yom-Tov table of the Rebbe Rayatz on Shavuos, in 1943!In the absence of video or tape recordings, the nearest you can get to that privilege today is to relish the refreshing scoop with which the newly-released Sefer HaSichos 5703 opens – a facsimile of the never-before-published original manuscript of the first page of the notes which one of the participants later made from memory of that farbrengen. That facsimile is seasoned with corrections and annotations that were liberally inserted in the unmistakable handwriting of the Rebbe, who at the time was seated next to the Rebbe Rayatz.Other highlights in this volume include the empowering response of the Rebbe Rayatz to the events of his time, at the peak of the Holocaust. Not that he endeavors to avert his gaze from the harsh reality of that era. On the contrary: “One’s head is dulled, one’s heart is bruised, one’s spirit is battered.” His response, however, is a bold call to arms, an impassioned plea to his chassidim to go out and challenge their brothers and sisters to ease the birth pangs of Mashiach by resisting the tsunami of assimilation that threatened their very survival as Jews, in the Land of the Free.In a move that pioneered the outreach and the mivtza’im of our generation, he urged Anash to simply knock on door after door. Their task was to persuade the migrants around them to pause a moment from the local rat-race in pursuit of the golden dollar, and to salvage whatever they recalled of the time-honored values of the Old Country by enrolling their children in kosher Talmud Torah schools.One of the widely-respected bodies that the Rebbe Rayatz criticized outspokenly in this volume was Youth Aliyah, the project by which a thousand Polish-born refugee children, many of them orphans, were rescued by self-sacrificing fellow Jews and brought to the Holy Land via India and Teheran, but were then educated in institutions whose spirit was utterly alien to the observant homes in which they had been raised. And as to the faithless and unobservant rabbis who taught in America’s after-school Talmud Torah schools, he declared outspokenly that “the fact that the prominent members of the Agudas HaRabbonim (the roof organization of Orthodox rabbis) stand aside coolly in the face of this situation is utterly incomprehensible.”At the same time, like its five predecessors, this volume too sparkles with scores of heartwarming moments – unforgettable anecdotes, chassidic folk history, good-humored galleries of colorful and inspiring personalities, a fascinating description of the stages by which his father, the Rebbe Rashab, groomed his young son for the historic life-work that awaited him, and of course a wealth of Torah teachings. Apart from those that are original and appear here for the first time in translation, many are teachings that the Rebbe Rayatz faithfully transmitted from his illustrious forebears. (In fact, he once described himself as “a funnel!”) Learn More
  5. Did you know?

    Every Parsha has a different amount of pesukim. Our sages have chosen a word known as a mnemonic with the same gematria to remember the number of pesukim.

    This groundbreaking book explores the connection between the mnemonic the number of pesukim and the theme of the Parshah. Plus every Parsha has an amazing inspirational story and a great joke.

    A book for every home and every personal library! Learn More

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