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Rashi Symposium Ahead of Gimmel Tammuz: Full Program With Updated Details

True hiskashrus is through learning the Rebbe’s Torah, as stated in Hayom Yom (24 Sivan) during the days of preparation for Gimmel Tammuz. A special symposium will be held, dedicated to the revolutionary approach that the Rebbe pioneered in explaining Rashi’s pirush on the Torah • Full Story, Details

True hiskashrus is through learning the Rebbe’s Torah, as stated in Hayom Yom (24 Sivan) during the days of preparation for Gimmel Tammuz.

A special symposium will be held, dedicated to the revolutionary approach that the Rebbe pioneered in explaining Rashi’s pirush on the Torah, marking sixty years since the Rebbe began elucidating a section from Rashi on the weekly parsha at every Shabbos farbrengen, in 5725.

The symposium will feature leading experts in the Rebbe’s Torah, and particularly in the Rebbe’s distinctive methodology of learning Rashi on Chumash.

Rabbi Tuvia Bloy, author of “Klalei Rashi,” will participate via a special broadcast from Eretz Yisroel.

Rabbi Avraham Baruch Pevzner, prolific author of seforim on the Rebbe’s Torah, will illuminate a chiddush that the Rebbe revealed in Rashi’s commentary.

A special panel will combine both a discussion of the Rebbe’s derech halimud and firsthand accounts of what transpired in 770 surrounding the Rashi sichos.

Panel participants include:

Rabbi Nachman Shapiro, who was zocheh for many years to prepare the weekly hanachos that were edited by the Rebbe, including the Rashi sichos.

Rabbi Aharon Shapira, Rav of Pardes Katz in Bnei Brak, and head of the Mesivta d’Rashi Institute, who has been involved for many years in annotating and publishing various meforshim on Rashi and has extensive knowledge of the Rebbe’s teachings.

Rabbi Michoel Aharon Seligson, mashpia in Oholei Torah Mesivta, and is renowned as one of the foremost experts on the history of Dor Hashvi’i.

Rabbi Shalom Dovber Avtzon, author of the Rebbeim Biography Series and an expert in Chabad history.

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Katzman, a mashpia in Crown Heights, will share personal experiences from the Rashi sichos over the years.

The symposium will take place on Thursday evening, Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, 7:30 PM at Kollel Menachem adjacent to 770.

The program will conclude with maariv and a farbrengen in preparation for the holy day of Gimmel Tammuz.

Live streaming will be available at 60rashisichos.com.

The event is organized by the Va’ad HaMosifin of Crown Heights. For information and contributions: [email protected]

The organizers are confident that this symposium will inspire renewed chayus in learning the Rebbe’s Torah in general and Rashi sichos in particular, until we are zocheh to be reunited with the Rebbe and hear Torah chadasha from the mouth of Moshiach Tzidkeinu, with the complete geulah.