New Release: My Story

My Story: Personal Encounters With the Lubavitcher Rebbe

From a first-time mother to a commander in Israel's Air Force; the struggling dentist to the community rabbi, My Story features forty-one inspirational true stories of the Rebbe from the My Encounter with the Rebbe oral history project, complemented by family photos and documents, as well as a stunning selection of portraits of the Rebbe from the Living Archive picture collection.

Many of these stories are published here for the first time, while others are more complete versions of the popular weekly Here's My Story publication.

With incredible insight and sensitivity, the rebbe's wisdom and compassion serve as an unexpected ray of hope in the fact of challenge and adversity. The outcomes have a transformational impact on the lives of the storytellers, as they are sure to have on yours.

New Book Release: Early Years

Early Years by Boruch Oberlander and Elkanah Shmotkin

Early Years:

• Meticulously researched and engagingly presented,
• Early Years tells the fascinating story of the Rebbe’s early life, including newly-uncovered details of:
• The Rebbe’s first meeting with his future father-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of Lubavitch.
• How the match between the Rebbe and Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak’s middle daughter, Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, came about.
• The identity of the Rebbe’s childhood teacher who lived in his home and whom he described as “a great Torah scholar.”
• The details of the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin’s wedding in Warsaw, and of the simultaneous celebrations across the globe marking the event.
• The Rebbe’s life in Berlin, where he lived with Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, hundreds of miles from his father-inlaw and the seat of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement..