COLlive.com and Nissan Mindel Publications present “Archive Gems”, a periodical column sharing guidance from the Rebbe and unknown details of Chabad’s history in the United States.
The material is from the archives of Rabbi Dr. Nissan Mindel, the trusted personal secretary of the Frierdiker Rebbe and the Rebbe, and a renowned Chabad author of literature for young and old for close to 60 years.
Rabbi Shalom Ber Schapiro, Director of Nissan Mindel Publications, was entrusted with these treasured archives by his father-in-law, Rabbi Mindel and it is to his lasting credit that the dissemination of chassidus is thereby being strengthened.
Much of this material will be published in the forthcoming book “Chabad in America Through the Folders of Nissan Mindel,” covering Chabad’s activities in America from 1940 until 1994, as preserved by Rabbi Mindel in his folders.
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This week we present an article written by Dr. Mindel titled “The Significance of Chassidic Dancing,” going into historical and theological details on why Chassidim are so light on their feet.
This article was written in English for an unmentioned publication. As can be seen, it was personally reviewed and edited by the Rebbe.
“Even though Rabbi Mindel gave talks, wrote letters and articles of his own, we see that the Rebbe took a personal interest, reviewed and made notations on most (if not all) of these works,” Rabbi Schapiro points out.
Presented here are all 9 pages of the article with the Rebbe’s edits on them.
Reading Rabbi Mindell’s article with the edits of the Rebbe in the English language touches the reader in a most profound way. Primarily the clarity it provides as if the reader is being prompted by the Rebbe himself to pause and concentrate on the topic more fully. Secondly, one sees first hand how important it is to express oneself in writing with correct punctuation, syntax, etc. Thank you Shapiro family for sharing so graciously and fully these diamonds of Chassidus and Torah.. One more point, the observant viewer is smitten by the photograph of the secretariat HaRav Hodokov and HaRav… Read more »