Shimon Neubort

From the Previous Rebbe’s essay, “Fathers of Chassidus,” HaTamim, Vol. 8, pp. 795-796. [From the Previous Rebbe’s Diary]: It was now two o’clock in the morning, and a pouring rain fell outside. I begged Reb Gershon Dov to remain in my room and rest until ...

From the Previous Rebbe’s essay, “Fathers of Chassidus,” HaTamim, Vol. 8, pp. 792-795. Reb Gershon Dov described to me how the early chassidim used to take care to preserve the dignity of Chassidus. They did this out of awe for what is holy, and with hear...

From the Previous Rebbe’s essay, “Fathers of Chassidus,” HaTamim, Vol. 7, pp. 683-688. Reb Gershon Dov’s maternal grandfather, the wealthy Torah patron Reb Meir Zalman, was a native of Gluchov.Chernigov County, in “Little Russia”. He was the son of the ga...

From the Previous Rebbe’s essay, “Fathers of Chassidus,” HaTamim, Vol. 5, pp. 463-467; Vol. 6, pp. 581-582; Vol 7, p. 683; Vol 8, pp. 789-792. [From the Previous Rebbe’s Diary]: This past Rosh HaShanah marked sixty years since Reb Gershon Dov’s uncle, Reb...

From the Previous Rebbe’s essay, “Fathers of Chassidus,” HaTamim, Vol. 5, pp. 461-463. The Previous Rebbe divided that essay into numbered sections. Sections 1-42 appeared in Vol. 1 of this translation. We continue here with sections 43, 44. After section...

From the Previous Rebbe’s essay, “Fathers of Chassidus,” HaTamim, Vol. 6, pp. 578-581. It was my master and Rebbe’s regular custom to choose one of the new students to wait on him at his home, and to sleep in the room adjoining his own bedroom. That Sunda...

From the Previous Rebbe’s essay, “Fathers of Chassidus,” HaTamim, Vol. 5, pp. 473-476; Vol. 6, pp. 575-578. During the entire time that I was relating my story to my master and Rebbe, his jewel-like eyes gazed at me with intense concentration. This caused...

From the Previous Rebbe’s essay, “Fathers of Chassidus,” HaTamim, Vol. 5, pp. 467-473; see also Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Memoirs, Vol. 2, Chs. 67-78. Reb Baruch ben Yosef was born in a small village near Vilna. At the age of fifteen, he went into exile in sear...

Next, Shimon reported on his visit to Liozna: I arrived in Liozna on a Monday, about two o’clock in the afternoon. I entered the shul in their leader’s house, and in the side-room I discovered people still wearing their tallis and tefillin. They were stil...

A continuation of the collection of notes from which the previous two chapters were taken. During the year 5552 [1792] a resident of Zamut named Shimon arrived in Vilna. He had studied science and mathematics, and Hebrew grammar under students of the lead...