Wednesday
Nov192014
THE REBBE’S RASHI REVOLUTION
It is fifty years since the start of the Rebbe’s Torah revolution in learning the simple meaning of the Torah text with Rashi’s commentary. * After in-depth research, including interviews with R’ Tuvia Blau, author of Klalei Rashi, R’ Leibel Groner, the Rebbe’s secretary, and R’ Nachman Schapiro, member of the Vaad L’Hafatzos Sichos, a picture emerged of an amazing era in the course of which the Rebbe revealed not only a new method in the study of Rashi but also changed the nature of farbrengens and revealed new dimensions in the bond between Rebbe and Chassidim. * Part 1