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Proceeding Together:
The Earliest Talks of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson
After the Passing of the Previous Rebbe Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn
in 1950
Volume II
Kaploun, Uri
224 pgs.
ISBN 1-8814-0016-6
$17.00
After turning to the Rebbe for guidance in every conceivable situation for over forty years, where does a chassid turn for guidance at a time like this? - Instinctively, he turns to the words of the Rebbe at a comparable time.
In the early weeks after the passing of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1950, as the world found itself faced by an unfamiliar reality, the Rebbe found himself surrounded by bereft chassidim who sought orientation and reassurance. With them he shared the himmel-verter, the whispers from another world, which this unique volume has preserved for our times.
Reading through its chapters - The Shepherd Will Not Forsake His Flock; The Rebbe in Heaven Will Bring Mashiach; Connecting To and Through the Rebbe; How to Receive the Torah; Reason and Beyond; and so on - one thing soon becomes clear: When, in the talks before us, the Rebbe was offering guidance for the situation of 1950, he is in fact also offering us guidance for the situation that began on the third of Tammuz, 1994. In fact, many of the teachings in this book are so timely that to people of our generation they almost appear to have been delivered especially for us.
Uttered long ago in eloquent humility, these whispers from another world are reverberating serenely in the ears of many an earnest listener today.
Table of Contents
Publisher’s Foreword
Devotion to Task
Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch & Machne Israel Must Not Falter
A Lifeline
Being Alive and Communicating Vitality
Yud-Beis Tammuz: To Be Every Inch a Chassid
The Month of Av: Mercy in Disguise
Chaf Menachem Av: Holding Tight to the Rebbe’s Doorknob
Parshas Re’eh and Elul: Making One’s Own Animal Kosher
A Letter for Chai Elul
Sharing with Paupers in Body and Soul
Chai Elul: A King in the Fields
United We Stand
A Letter to Yeshivah Students
Rosh HaShanah: A Healthy Nerve-Center for the Coming Year
Founders of Chassidism & Leaders of Chabad-Lubavitch
Glossary and Biographical Index