What the Rebbe Did in Berlin in His Free Time

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Rebbe's Pre-1940 Note Shines Spotlight on Scholarly Indices
By Dovid Zaklikowski
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A recent discovery of a never-before published notation made by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, in the years before his ascension to the leadership of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement has shed light on the enormous undertaking of the then son-in-law of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, to compile all of the movement's teachings into an orderly index arranged by subject.

Spanning hundreds of years of scholarship, the thousands of priceless handwritten manuscripts and discourses were traditionally passed down from leader to leader, but the future Rebbe embarked on both a groundbreaking project to open the trove of teachings to the masses and to provide a systematic guide for their study.

The note itself serves as a scholarly explanation of an obscure teaching of the First Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi ], dealing with the metaphysical nature of the Jewish people's ritual animal sacrifices in the desert and, later, in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. But its discovery – and subsequent release by the Kehot Publication Society – has offered present-day scholars a further glimpse into an effort that consumed much of the future Rebbe's time.

"Recently we were reviewing the index the Rebbe wrote prior to his 1941 arrival in the United States, which covered Rabbi Schneur Zalman's Chasidic discourses," says Rabbi Chaim Shaul Brook of Lahak Publications, which continues to uncover manuscripts as part of its effort to publish talks and discourses delivered by the Rebbe between 1951 and 1994. "There, they found a note on half of a page that was never before published."

While he was studying in Berlin and Paris, the future Rebbe worked on his index of all published and unpublished works of Chabad teachings. Written on 8 by 5.5 inch paper, the original notes that made up the index reflect a time of upheaval in the lives of the future Rebbe and Jews across Europe.

"These indexes were written in different times, in different life conditions," the Rebbe wrote years later as an explanation of the notations' variant writing styles. "They were written in both situations of comfort and prosperity and in situations of distress and siege."

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