MA'AMARIM VE-SIHOT SHEL K"K ADMOR SHLITA MI-LUBAVITCH [COMPLETE IN 15 PARTS]

Riga [and] Varsha: [No Publisher], 1934. Hardcover. 1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 26, 62, 32, 52, 28, 8, 18, 20, 25, 24, 11, 56, 15 pages. Includes 15 parts in one volume. 24 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to "Articles and Conversations with the Rebbe from Lubavitch." Contents include:[2] Derushe hatunah 689--[10] Ma'amre Hasidut, Riga 691--[11] S´ihot Admor shlita bi-se'udat S´imhat Torah ve-19 Kislev 691--[12] Ma'amarim shel Admor shlita li-lemod ba-rabim be-yom 2 Nisan 691--[13] Kuntres Ma'amarim ve-s´ihot, 3 ma'amarim she-ne'emru be-Lita 691--[14] Ma'amarim le-limud ba-rabim bi-yeme hag ha-ge'ulah 12-13 Tamuz 691--[15] Kuntres Ma'amarim ve-s´ihot 691--[16] Kuntres Ma'amarim ve-s´ih?ot 692-- [17] Ma'amarim le-limud be-rabim be-yom 2 Nisan 692--[18] Ma'amarim le-limud be-rabim bi-yeme hag ha-ge'ulah 12-13 Tamuz 692--[23] S´ihah bi-seudah de-yom 2 de hag ha-Shavuot 693--[24] Ma'amarim shel Admor shelita le-limud be-rabim be-yom 2 Nisan 694--[25] Ma'amre Hasidut Riga 694--[26] Ma'amarim le-limud be-rabim bi- yeme hag ha-ge'ulah 12-13 Tamuz 694--[27] Ma'amre Hasidut Varsha 694. Joseph Schneersohn (1880-1950) was an Orthodox rabbi and the sixth Rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch chasidic movement. "Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the sixth rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, was one of the most remarkable Jewish personalities of the twentieth century. In his seventy years, he encountered every conceivable challenge to Jewish life: the persecutions and pogroms of Czarist Russia, Communism's war on Judaism, and melting-pot America's apathy and scorn toward the Torah and its precepts. The Rebbe was unique in that he not only experienced these chapters in Jewish history — as did many of his generation — but that, as a leader of his people, he actually faced them down, often single-handedly, and prevailed. The young Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak, in full-length chassidic garb, was a familiar figure in the receiving rooms of the government officials, ministers, and nobles of Moscow and Petersburg.... He demanded the repeal of anti-Jewish decrees, the stopping of pogroms and the cessation of the government's program of forced ‘enlightenment' of traditional Jewish life" His father appointed him the first executive director of the first Lubavitch Yeshivah; "It was there, in the hamlet of Lubavitch in pre-soviet White Russia, that Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok trained the army of the faithful torchbearers who, under the impossible conditions of the decades to come, would literally give their lives to keep the flame of Jewish life ablaze throughout the Soviet Union. Upon his father's passing in 1920 Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak assumed the leadership of Russian Jewry just as Communism's all-out war on Jewish life was moving into high gear.... He dispatched teachers and rabbis to the farthest reaches of the Soviet Empire, establishing a vast underground network of schools, mikvaos, and lifelines of material and spiritual support.... In 1927 he was arrested, beaten, sentenced to death and exiled; but he stood his ground, and by force of international pressure he was finally allowed to leave the country. But in leaving the boundaries of the Soviet Union he left his emissaries and their infrastructure of Jewish life behind.... When the all-powerful communist regime began to crumble in the closing years of the '80s, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak's network of children's schools, outreach centers, and supply lines of kosher food and religious services simply moved out of cellars and attics into emptied Communist Party buildings. Upon arriving in New York after his rescue from Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1940, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak took on a no less formidable challenge: the frigid spiritual atmosphere of the western world. There was no telling Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak that his was a losing battle; from his wheelchair, he rallied the Jewish young of America under the cry that "America is no different, " that also in this bastion of materialism the timeless truths of Torah can take root and flourish. He established yeshivas and day schools, a publishing house for Jewish books, a social service organization and community support networks throughout the country. By the time of his passing in 1950 he had laid the foundation for the global renaissance of Torah-true and chassidic-flavored Jewish life, heralded by his son-in-law and successor, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson" (Chabad, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Hasidism. Habad. OCLC: 40404938. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (JTS, Harvard) . Boards are worn and chipped. Pages are browning and fragile, but all contents are very good. Overall Good Condition. Rare, especially as a complete set. (RAB-64-65).