The English Letters

Correspondence of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson

The English Letters — Igros Kodesh series, complete set of volumes in cloth binding with gold foil

Inaugural Volume · 5710–5711 / 1950–1951

For the first time ever — the full collection of the Rebbe's English-language letters. A landmark new series of the Igros Kodesh.

What's Inside

Never Before Published

The Rebbe's English-language letters — the vast majority of which have never been available — now published and beautifully prepared for study.

Fully Annotated

Each letter is accompanied by biographical footnotes on the recipients, historical context, cross-references to related letters, and source citations throughout.

Built to Last

A hardcover volume with cloth binding, designed to hold up to years of regular study — because these are letters you’ll return to.

A Look Inside

Pages from the Book

Inside pages of The English Letters showing a sample letter with footnotes

Letters include descriptive titles, marginal subject headings, and editorial footnotes with biographical and historical context.

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The Inaugural Volume

What's Inside

Volume Two · 5710–5711 / 1950–1951

Letters

214 letters from a pivotal period — the years leading up to and following the Rebbe's formal acceptance of leadership of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.

Facsimiles

Select letters reproduced as photographic facsimiles of the original documents, with annotated captions.

Annotations

Historical footnotes and contextual notes throughout, giving readers the background needed to fully appreciate each letter and its significance.

Index

Comprehensive indexes of People, Places & Institutions, and Topics & Guidance — so readers can find the Rebbe's words on the subject they need.

About This Edition

A New Kind of Igros Kodesh

Throughout his decades of leadership, the Rebbe maintained a vast personal correspondence. Thousands of people — from across the Jewish world and beyond — wrote to him with questions of Jewish law and practice, requests for blessings, personal dilemmas, communal challenges, and matters of faith. The Rebbe responded to each one.

The project of publishing this correspondence (Igros Kodesh) began in the 1980s with the Hebrew and Yiddish letters, and now spans well over thirty volumes. It was noted then that the English letters would be published separately. This series is that effort.

These letters are not translations. They were written by the Rebbe in English, addressed to English-speaking individuals and organizations around the world — lawyers, senators, soldiers, college students, widows, communal leaders, and seekers of every kind. They reveal a spiritual leader engaging with the full range of modern life, in his correspondents' own language.

This inaugural volume is published as Volume Two of the series, covering the years 5710–5711 (1950–1951). Volume One, covering the earlier years, will follow.

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