Kitvei Kodesh – Book of Writings by of the Rebbe Rayatz [Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn] from Lubavitch in 1940. Stencil printing, Brooklyn, [about 1941?]. Yiddish.
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880-1950, Otzar Harabbanim 8887), the sixth Admor of the House of Habad-Lubavitch, Founder of the Tomhei Temimim together with his father Rabbi Shalom Dov, he became the Admor in 1920. Imprisoned by the Communist authorities and released in 1927, later he went to Poland and from there to Brooklyn, USA. (March 1940).
The volume here contains the first booklets of the speeches of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn in the USA, including articles from the first Purim he celebrated there. Together with a number of articles from previous years [when the Rabbi was in Riga and Batvetsk] and a number of letters. They were printed in Brooklyn and published by the “Hassidim Distribution Office” of Rabbi Abraham Paris, soon after the speeches were delivered in 1940. Apparently these were the first Torah teachings of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn to be printed in the USA. In front of the second booklet from the Seudat Purim, a special sheet is attached in which Rabbi Abraham Paris writes about the importance of reading the article: “It is a great Mitzvah to learn the article ------said on Purim in New York".
Each booklet has independent pagination, [436 pages]. 20 cm. Good condition, a few stains, slight signs of moths in two booklets. Stamped on spine of binding: “Holy wrtings from Lubavitch 1940”. Signatures and stamps of Rabbi Mordechai Levinson.