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Likkutei Dibburim, a cherished treasure-chest of the Chabad-chassidic heritage, is a record of talks delivered (and then rewritten for publication) by the later Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880-1950), in Latvia, Poland and the United States, in the course of the years 1929-1950.

The sheer range of this work, both in subject and atmosphere, is overwhelming, for these talks embrace (for example) childhood memories; insightful stories; the family traditions of a family of tzaddikim; recollections of Stalinist dungeons and interrogations; nostalgic glimpses of faces and sounds and townlets that conjure up the mystique of a vanished world; delicately-drawn vignettes of exalted villagers and humble giants; eloquent and sometimes impassioned passages of exhortation; fascinating chronicles of the early history of the chassidic movement, treasured heirlooms that are lovingly passed on; and, of course, creative and instructive expositions of concepts crucial to the teachings of Chassidus. But one theme links all of these subjects like a thread of gold -- the intense spiritual and personal bond with all his fellow Jews, that is of the essence of the very concept of Rebbe.

The present volume, translated by Uri Kaploun from the original Hebrew and Yiddish, is the fist of the several that comprise this classic work. The final volume of the series is scheduled to include a biographical outline of the author; an alphabetized biographical index identifying all the main personages mentioned, complete with page references; a partial family tree of the author’s forebears; a table of significant dates in the Chabad-Lubavitch calendar; and various other supplementary background resources.

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Preface
Chapter 28 -- Chaf-Daled Teves 5709 (1949)
Chapter 29 -- A Talk to Tomchei Temimim Supporters 10 Shvat 5709 (1949)
Chapter 30a -- Lag BaOmer 5708 (1948)
Chapter 30b -- Lag BaOmer & Chassidic Oral History: A Diary Entry
Opening Talk -- Tomchei Temimim Third Anniversary 7 Adar Sheni 5703 (1943)
Closing Talk -- Tomchei Temimim Third Anniversary 7 Adar Sheni 5703 (1943)
Chapter 31 -- Yud Tes/Chaf Kislev 5710 (1949)
Chapter 32 -- Memorandum: A Story of the Baal Shem Tov 27 Menachem Av 5656 (1896)
Chapter 33 -- Lag BaOmer 5704 (1944)
Chapter 34 -- Sections 1-17: The Imprisonment of 1927
Chapter 35 -- Sections 1-20: The Imprisonment of 1927
Chapter 36 -- Sections 1-15: The Imprisonment of 1927
Sections 16-26: Chronicles of the First Three Generations of Chabad Chassidism
Chapter 37 -- Sections 1-25: Recollections of the Author’s Childhood Between the Ages of Six & Eleven
Chapter 38 -- The Last Day of Pesach 5698 (1938)
Appendix -- Between Prison & Exile — A Farewell Message 3 Tammuz 5687 (1927)
Founders of Chassidism & Leaders of Chabad-Lubavitch
Glossary