Join live at 7:30 PM ET: A fascinating symposium will mark sixty years since the Rebbe paved a new path in studying Rashi’s pirush on the Torah. The event will feature talks by Rabbi Tuvia Bloy, author of “Klalei Rashi,” and Rabbi Avraham Baruch Pevzner, as well as a panel of respected chassidim who will discuss the “Rashi Sichos.”
True hiskashrus is through learning the Rebbe’s Torah, as stated in Hayom Yom (24 Sivan) during the days of preparation for Gimmel Tammuz.
A special symposium will be held, dedicated to the revolutionary approach that the Rebbe pioneered in explaining Rashi’s pirush on the Torah, marking sixty years since the Rebbe began elucidating a section from Rashi on the weekly parsha at every Shabbos farbrengen, in 5725.
The symposium will feature leading experts in the Rebbe’s Torah, and particularly in the Rebbe’s distinctive methodology of learning Rashi on Chumash.
Rabbi Tuvia Bloy, author of “Klalei Rashi,” will participate via a special broadcast from Eretz Yisroel.
Rabbi Avraham Baruch Pevzner, prolific author of seforim on the Rebbe’s Torah, will illuminate a chiddush that the Rebbe revealed in Rashi’s commentary.
A special panel will combine both a discussion of the Rebbe’s derech halimud and firsthand accounts of what transpired in 770 surrounding the Rashi sichos.
Panel participants include:
Rabbi Nachman Shapiro, who was zocheh for many years to prepare the weekly hanachos that were edited by the Rebbe, including the Rashi sichos.
Rabbi Aharon Shapira, Rav of Pardes Katz in Bnei Brak, and head of the Mesivta d’Rashi Institute, who has been involved for many years in annotating and publishing various meforshim on Rashi and has extensive knowledge of the Rebbe’s teachings.
Rabbi Michoel Aharon Seligson, mashpia in Oholei Torah Mesivta, and is renowned as one of the foremost experts on the history of Dor Hashvi’i.
Rabbi Shalom Dovber Avtzon, author of the RebbeimBiographySeries and an expert in Chabad history.
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Katzman, a mashpia in Crown Heights, will share personal experiences from the Rashi sichos over the years.
The symposium will take place on Thursday evening, Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, 7:30 PM. Due to a power shortage in parts of Crown Heights, including the Kollel Menachem building, the Rashi Yom Iyun is relocating to the Zal of Chovevei Torah at 885 Eastern Parkway.
The program will conclude with maariv and a farbrengen in preparation for the holy day of Gimmel Tammuz.
The event will be livestreamed on Anash.org.
The event is organized by the Va’ad HaMosifin of Crown Heights. For information and contributions: [email protected]
The organizers are confident that this symposium will inspire renewed chayus in learning the Rebbe’s Torah in general and Rashi sichos in particular, until we are zocheh to be reunited with the Rebbe and hear Torah chadasha from the mouth of Moshiach Tzidkeinu, with the complete geulah.
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Reb Leibel Groner related:
Reb Shloima Horenshtein, a Boyaner chossid, was from the family of the Rebbe Maharash and he would come often to the Rebbe’s farbrengens. Reb Shloima related: “After 5725 (1965), when the Rebbe started Rashi sichos, the Rebbe once said to me, ‘Ir zeht Reb Shloima? Ich bin yetzt gevuren a melamed dardiki, ich lern mit di chassidim pirush Rashi al haTorah, uhn ich bin zeier tzufreeden fun dem!’ You see Reb Shloima? I became a school teacher, I teach the chassidim Rashi on the Torah and I am very content with that title.”
We can take a lesson from the above, to have pride in teaching school children! It’s no small title. The Aibershter is a mechanech, the Rebbe a mechanech; be proud!