Shimon Neubort

Hanging a Shir HaMaalos at the Home of a New Mother and in the Hospital... Reciting Tehillim During Delivery... The Husband’s Presence in the Delivery Room...

Concealing the Pregnancy untill the fifth month...Not to Mention the pregnancy in a Pan before the end of the first Trimester... Kapporos for a Pregnant Woman... A Pregnant Woman as Kvatterin or Accompanying a bride... Immersion during the ninth month...C...

An anthology of Chabad-Lubavitch customs regarding pregnancy, childbirth, circumcision, Redemption of the Firstborn, and the birth of girls.

The material in this chapter is taken from a collection of the Previous Rebbe’s notes. This material was circulated among chassidim in typewritten form, as part of a collection known as “Shimon of Zamut,” or “Shimon the Heretic.” The remainder of this col...

Excerpt of a letter from the Previous Rebbe, sent from Riga to the shochet Reb Moshe Charitonov in Cherson. It is dated 2 Av 5688 [July 19, 1928], and was published in Igros Kodesh of the Rebbe Rayatz, Vol. 2, No. 394.…My saintly paternal grandmother the ...

This letter does not appear in the official published collection of the Rebbe’s letters, and is taken from a handwritten copy the Rebbe apparently made for himself.B.H., Motzoei Shabbos, 2 Shvat 5692 [eve of Sunday, January 10, 1932]. To my honored and ho...

From a letter written to the Rebbe, as an introduction to the essay “Fathers of Chassidus. First printed in HaTamim, Vol. 2, pp. 150-159, with the heading, “Copy of a letter by the Rebbe, Shlita, written to his son-in-law, the rav (long may he live).” The...

[See also Sefer HaSichos 5702, p. 45ff.]The tzaddik Reb Yitzchak Aizik (of blessed memory)[The story of Reb Yitzchak Aizik of Vitebsk appeared earlier in this volume.] was born in Smilovitch in the year 5528 [1768]. He was the rav and Chief Magistrate in ...

During the winter of 5542 [1781-82], the Alter Rebbe conferred with his brothers, Reb Yehudah Leib and Reb Mordechai, about holding a debate with the misnagdim. He then began a campaign to gain support for this idea, as we shall describe later. At the end...

The material in this Supplement is taken from a collection of the Previous Rebbe’s notes. This material was circulated among chassidim in typewritten form, as part of a collection known as “The Debate in Minsk.” Portions of these notes have been published...