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The stories contained in this book reveal a multidimensional picture of the Rebbe's leadership, showing many different perspectives of his personality.

Our intent, however, is also to communicate something more than what is being said, to intimate to our readers an awareness of the general thrust that runs through all these different narratives.

Giving sole focus to any particular aspect of the Rebbe's personality, for example, the miracles that he works, the advice he gives people, his scholarship, narrows - and in that way, distorts -- the picture of the Rebbe we all have.

Every person who has developed a relationship with the Rebbe has his own way of talking about him.

But every person also realizes that his viewpoint is only a limited one and that there is something much greater about the Rebbe that he cannot describe. Nevertheless, by seeing a variety of these personal perspectives, it is possible to develop a greater sensitivity to what that greater dimension is.

It is our feeling that stories express this best.

Stories are alive.

In contrast to a biography which represents a cold intellectual perspective on a person's life, in stories, his responses to the people and the circumstances he encounters breathe with vitality. Besides biographies come with explicit or implied conclusions; stories quietly allow the reader to draw his own.

Table of Contents

Introduction Telling Stories
Chapter 1 What You Need and What You are Needed For
Chapter 2 No Small Matter
Chapter 3 A Shepherd of Souls
Chapter 4 Reaching Outward
Chapter 5 Digging For Roots
Chapter 6 Jewels in the Streets
Chapter 7 Opening the Iron Fist
Chapter 8 Shepherding His Flock
Chapter 9 Unveiling Hidden Treasures
Chapter 10 Precious Souls
Chapter 11 "The Language of the Wise is Healing" (Proverbs 12:18)
Chapter 12 "Rejoice O Barren One" (Isaiah 54:1)
Chapter 13 Beyond Nature’s Limits
Chapter 14 Sparks of Greatness
Chapter 15 More Than During His Lifetime
Afterword
Glossary and Biographical Index