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Lot 302

Kuntres Maamarim 5682, and Two One-Dollar Bills Distributed by the Lubavitcher Rebbe – 10th Shevat, 1992

Kuntres Maamarim 5682, along with two one-dollar bills for charity, received from Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Brooklyn, New York: Kehot, 1992. "The Rebbe's ninetieth year".
The booklet, printed at the behest of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on the occasion of the yahrzeit of his father-in-law the Rebbe Rayatz on 10th Shevat, contains three Chassidic discourses delivered by the Rayatz in 1921, which had been in manuscript. A portrait of the Rebbe Rayatz is printed at the beginning of the booklet, and facsimiles of the copyist's manuscript and a brief biography of the Rebbe Rayatz are printed at the end.


Inscription on title page and margins of both dollar bills: "From the hand of the Rebbe".


The distribution ceremony of the present booklet and dollars are described in Kovetz LeChizuk HaHitkashrut – 29 (pp. 66-68). On the night of 10th Shevat, 1992, the Rebbe distributed the present booklet along with two dollars for charity. The Rebbe distributed about 7000 booklets over the course of three hours, giving brief blessings. The Farbrengen held afterwards began with the study of a section from the newly distributed booklet.


59, [1] pages. Red wrapper. Approx. 23 cm. Booklet and dollar bills in good condition.