Ask a Lubavitcher Anything

[Euclid]

Is this something that might interest anyone here?

I may be interested- though I'm located in Lakewood. What other records do you have?

[SSLPhD]

I may be interested- though I'm located in Lakewood. What other records do you have?

[skyguy918]

Did the Rebbe write haskamos for seforim, and if yes, was it rare or common?

[ExGingi]

Did the Rebbe write haskamos for seforim, and if yes, was it rare or common?

No.

Lubavitcher Rebbes did not give haskomos. (I seem to have a vague recollection that there was one exception in history, but it might be my imagination).

[dm123]

No.

Lubavitcher Rebbes did not give haskomos.

Are they called something else? I recall seeing some. First example on Google:
https://www.steinsaltz-center.org/vault/Endorsements/Rabbi%20Menachem%20Mendel%20Schneerson%20271068.pdf

[jj1000]

Are they called something else? I recall seeing some. First example on Google:
https://www.steinsaltz-center.org/vault/Endorsements/Rabbi%20Menachem%20Mendel%20Schneerson%20271068.pdf

Isn't a haskama when someone is asked to give haskama? Not something taken out of a personal letter?

[dm123]

Isn't a haskama when someone is asked to give haskama? Not something taken out of a personal letter?

I think some people understand Haskama to be any letter saying it's a good work.


There's of course a whole history of how they came about and evolved but generally it seems any letter extolling the work would count to many people nowadays as a "haskama".

[aygart]

Isn't a haskama when someone is asked to give haskama? Not something taken out of a personal letter?

If only...

[jj1000]

Did people take what the Rebbe wrote about someone's work as a haskama, and if yes, was it rare or common?

FTFY.

I don't think this was a practice amongst chassidim, what other people did or didn't do I couldn't say.

[ExGingi]

FTFY.

I don't think this was a practice amongst chassidim, what other people did or didn't do I couldn't say.

חומש ש"י למורא prints the Rebbe's letter to him. But he wouldn't dare call it הסכמה. Especially since he seems to disregard what the Rebbe writes about partial ניקוד.

[skyguy918]

Interesting. The question was based on a sefer that has one haskama (from R' Moshe), but in the hakdama the mechaber thanks the Rebbe for encouraging him to write/print the sefer. Sounds like that's understandable.

[yos9694]

Isn't a haskama when someone is asked to give haskama? Not something taken out of a personal letter?

So they took his haskama without his haskama?

[jj1000]

So they took his haskama without his haskama?

Apparently that is the definition of haskama nowadays.

[imayid2]

Fascinating thread about "haskomaos" which in fact are opposing aspects of the sefer etc:
https://forum.otzar.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20657&p=202618&hilit=%D7%A0%D7%97%D7%9C%D7%AA+%D7%A6%D7%91%D7%99+%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%93%D7%A8#p202618

[jj1000]

The fact that this is a real concern means that there continues to be a level of hatred to Chabad...It is the fact that this reality exists which is the problem.

Yes

https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=6071.msg2676010#msg2676010

[Philosophypsych]

I just heard a beautiful maysah from Rabbi Wachsman he said he believes it was the Baal Hatanya, he used to lain the "Tochcha " every year, one year he wasn't well they got a replacement and the Tzemech Tzedek fainted, they woke him up, he said he never heard such curses in his life! Till now all he heard was brachos...can anyone confirm if this maysa is indeed with the baal hatanya?

[imayid2]

I just heard a beautiful maysah from Rabbi Wachsman he said he believes it was the Baal Hatanya, he used to lain the "Tochcha " every year, one year he wasn't well they got a replacement and the Tzemech Tzedek fainted, they woke him up, he said he never heard such curses in his life! Till now all he heard was brachos...can anyone confirm if this maysa is indeed with the baal hatanya?

[Philosophypsych]

יישר כחך

[gozalim]

and if you learn the ליקוטי תורה on those קללות you can begin to understand the brachos as well

[Dan]

So where is the Chidon Shabbaton that's been cancelled since March 2020?

https://collive.com/priceless-chidon-became-a-pricey-experience/