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Kehot Launches Online Tanya Tutor

by Mordechai Lightstone – Lubavitch.com

Kehot Publication Society, the Chabad-Lubavitch publishing house, has announced the early release of a unique study edition of first 12 chapters of Tanya, the seminal work of Chabad Chasidic philosophy, authored by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad movement.

In honor of the 24 of Tevet, the 198th anniversary of Rabbi Schneur Zalman, Kehot posted an online version on its website, kehot.com.

Tanya Tutor is the result of years of work that now offers visitors a multi-layered multimedia experience. Each passage in Tanya is accompanied by an audio translation and elucidation from renowned lecturer and Tanya teacher, Rabbi Manis Friedman.

Scattered throughout the body of the text are multimedia bookmarks with source material, additional readings from the corpus of Chabad Chasidic philosophy and audio and video clips featuring insights and analyses from Rabbi Friedman and Dr. Naftali Loewenthal, Professor at the University of London and the author of Communicating the Infinite (Chicago University Press).

According Rabbi Yosef B. Friedman of Kehot, Tanya Tutor’s “revolutionary presentation of this fundamental text” is part of Kehot’s “initiative to take the publication of Chasidut into the modern age.”

Tanya Tutor is largely the work of programmer Pinchos Fershtman of S. Paul Minnesota. It is currently available as a “beta” preview of the project and is optimized only for the Internet Explorer browser.

More chapters will soon be added, as will translations of the English content into other languages, and eventually a mobile-app version for Android, iPhones and other smart phones.

Dedication opportunities are available to those who wish to underwrite the project

Check out Tanya Tutor

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12 Comments

  • Yosef Shagalow SLP

    Ashrei Cheilo. An amazing technical and educational achievement. Pinchos. May your efforts be rewarded by Hakodosh Boruch Hu and may you see much nachas from your years of effort in this monumental project.

  • dont like ie

    doesnt work in firefox either. – if you notice, there’s a not-so-noticeable bar at the top of the page that says “The interactive Tanya Tutor was developed for the Internet Explorer platform”.

    guess it’s ok for it to work in IE6 and not in the other (more-used) browsers.

  • UNBELIEVABLE!!!

    HUGE Yasher koach. this is an absolute TREASURE!!! I hope someone steps up to sponsor the completion. and what about other sforim? maybe maamorim?

  • natan

    WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    But, please make it available on other browsers, ensuring that it will also work on other platforms (Linux) automatically.

    Ahem…..Here come the feature requests:)
    Have a Yiddish *option* as well. Notice, not stam a yiddish version. The same site should allow clicking between both languages. Many times a concept registers simply by hearing it explained in another language.

    Le’Chaim!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Thank you!

    Thank you so much for helping me keep my hachlata which I made on Yud Tes Kislev to resume doing Tanya chitas every day. This really makes it so much easier and understandable.
    Thanks again!

  • Wonderful Pinny, but

    Awesome! Also enjoyed reading the list of credits…but Pinny, where’d you put YOUR name??

  • Klara Fershtman

    Dear Pini,
    We are all so proud of you. Only we know how much energy, effort, sweat, “TUNA”, hard work and many years went into this project. Mazal Tov to you!!
    Klara, Chaya, Aron, Ayala, Yechezkel and Rysia