Shimon Neubort

The Baal Shem TovFrom the Previous Rebbe’s essay, “Fathers of Chassidus,” HaTamim, Vol. 2, pp. 137-140. 1. During one of my saintly father’s most holy addresses, delivered on 19 Kislev 5663 [December 19, 1902], we were privileged to hear the following: Th...

By the Editors of HaTamimFrom HaTamim, Vol. 2, p. 137. Below, we present an excerpt from a letter by the Rebbe Shlita[I.e., Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the sixth Chabad Rebbe, of righteous memory.] written to one of his rabbinic sons-in-law,[I.e., t...

One wintry evening in 5531, the gaon Rabbi Yosef Kalbo and several other of the leading Torah scholars from the city of Shklov were studying in the beis hamedrash of the Perushim. A young man carrying a small pack entered the study hall and went to the fu...

During my early teen years, I frequently visited the home of a cousin who is a fervent Visznitzer Chassid. In his living room hung a picture of the “chassidic tree” a famous drawing of a tree, with names of the chassidic Rebbeim superimposed. The trunk, o...

Biographical Stories based on the Essay Fathers of Chassidus by the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, first published in the classical columns of HaTamim