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How The Rashi Sichos Came To Be

In the annals of Chabad-Lubavitch in the US, the presence of Rabbi Yosef Wineberg (1917-2012) looms large. From his days as a student in Tomchei Tmimim in pre-war Warsaw & Otvotzk, surviving the bombing of Warsaw in 1939 at the side of the Previous Rebbe, to his lifetime role as the Rebbe’s roving ambassador and trailblazing teacher of the Tanya. The Wineberg family is currently putting together a book about his fascinating story, his life’s work and his deep hiskashrus to the Rebbe.

Chinese Translation Requested by the Rebbe Hits the Shelves

Forty years ago, an American professor traveling in Asia wrote a letter to the Rebbe about his encounter with locals eager to learn more about their Jewish heritage. The Rebbe instructed his staff to charge a certain traveling businessman with the task of compiling a list of Jewish works to consider translating into Chinese, and to oversee their subsequent publication.