The Central Chabad Library received a donation of over 50 unique seforim on Tuesday thanks to a private initiative of two brothers. Loaded in suitcases and shopping bags, the seforim had been collected by brothers R’ Menachem Mendel and R’ Eliyahu Ezagui.
The Central Chabad Library received a donation of over 50 unique seforim on Tuesday thanks to a private initiative of two brothers. Loaded in suitcases and shopping bags, the seforim had been collected by brothers R’ Menachem Mendel and R’ Eliyahu Ezagui.
The two brothers traveled together to various seforim stores in Eretz Yisroel and America, and using the library’s online catalog, they were able to identify over 50 seforim that the library did not yet have.
One sefer of particular interest is the newest volume of Torah Shleima on Devarim. Besides encouraging its publication and its study (specifically for parshiyos regarding the Mishkan), the Rebbe kept this set next to him on the shelf in his office. The sefer was brought this week from Eretz Yisroel to the library,
Over the last few years, the brothers have donated hundreds of seforim to the library. They say they were inspired by the Rebbe’s request that the library should receive copies of every sefer, and decided to do their part to fulfill the request.
“Usually, after spending half an hour in a seforim store, I find about twenty seforim the library does not have,” Mendel Ezagui told Anash.org.
It should be noted that the set that the rebbe spoke about was made by r’ Menachem mendel kasher, as opposed to this volume of devarim