
Details of the Rebbe’s Ordination Authenticated
A new volume of the writings of Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg, known as the Seridei Eish after the name of his volumes on Jewish law and the Talmud, authenticates details about his rabbinic ordination of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, which took place in the 1920s while he was living in Berlin, Germany.