The Educator's Privilege

During his more than forty years of leadership of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, the Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of blessed memory, explored, via correspondence and addresses, a vast array of educational concerns that underlined the place of Jewish education at the forefront of Chabad`s agenda. The Rebbe`s teachings provided encouragement and reinvigoration to those serving as educators, and inspired many other to engage in educational activity, whether in the role of a teacher, parent, or supporter of institutions of authentic Jewish education. Today we are fortunate to be in possession of several thousand articles of educational correspondence as well as transcripts of discourses by the Rebbe on educational concepts. Nevertheless, much of the Rebbe`s teachings regarding the philosophy and values of education remain largely undisclosed to the general public.

In response to a suggestion from Rabbi Naftali Ross of Jerusalem, the Rebbe encouraged publishing excerpts from his educational addresses on the importance and privilege of serving in the field of education, delivered over the previous decades of his leadership. In 1989, the Lubavitch Youth Organization in Israel published HeMechanech, a compilation of succinct citations drawn from the Rebbe`s writings and addresses on the role of the educator, collected by noted scholar and author Rabbi Alter Eliyahu friedman of Tzefat (with the assistance of editor Rabbi Menachem Brod).

6x9, Hardcover, 80pp

Publisher: Kehot Publication Society

Author: Rabbi Eliyahu Friedman Translated By: Rabbi Aryeh Leib Solomon

$12.50