As the Rebbe’s fame spread throughout the years of his leadership, the number of people who contacted him for Brachos and with questions grew tremendously from year to year. The USPS confirmed that the Rebbe got almost the most mail delivered to him daily in the United States – second only to the President.
Besides the traditional letters in reply, the Rebbe would write a short to the point answer to these people’s letters. To be given over verbally over the telephone or by fax, these answers were dubbed “Maynos”.
As the years progressed, and answering each and every person with a full letter become more and more time consuming for the Rebbe, the system of “Maynos” became more and more the common way of receiving an answer from the Rebbe.
Unfortunately, these precious answers of the Rebbe – sometimes on very important and fundamental topics – scarcely made it to the public. Some people didn’t even think it necessary to write down the exact wording, making the Rebbe’s opinion on many things, especially on subjects that only came up only in the later years of his leadership, unknown.
As the years pass since Gimmel Tammuz, Chassidim’s thirst for knowing the Rebbe’s opinions are growing increasingly. Over the last year, a team was formed called “Vaad Likkut Maynos” who volunteered to work tirelessly to collect as much answers of the Rebbe as possible. Starting with the hundreds scattered out amongst various Seforim, Teshuros and Magazines, they also reached out to many individuals received from the Rebbe who gave them (sometimes anonymously) to be printed in an organized manner.
This Likkut is the seventh in a series collecting the Rebbe’s Maanos throughout the years.
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Amazing. Keep it up
Wow amazing Berl! Great job
Great job!!
So beautiful! Continue in the avodas hakodesh..
Wow great job to all those involved behind the scenes
Even this crazy time still going at it, amazing
Well done
You bachurim are bringing Moshiach
“The USPS confirmed that the Rebbe got almost the most mail delivered to him daily in the United States – second only to the President.”
“Purportedly, research done by the New York Postal Service in the ’80s found that the Rebbe received second to the most (non-commercial) mail in all of New York State!”
– Mendel Kalmanson, Chabad.org
(https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/1557498/jewish/Local-Is-Global.htm)
1. The Maanos regarding elections for Rabbonim (all listed at the end of answer #42). Many insights can be learned from these answers in regards to the mission of a Rav B’Yisroel. 2. Over 20 answers on questions which were asked on the Rebbe’s Sichos. Amazing how the Rebbe shows the Derech Halimud, of Torah in general and the Rebbe’s Torah in particular. 3. And of course – the Pirsum Rishon’s: over 60 answers being published for the first time, bringing out the Rebbe’s approach in various topics. Thank you very much whoever took part in preparing this Likkut, and… Read more »
Shout out to Mendel Levinson, who spends days and nights working on this (even when the whole world shuts down!..).
Keep up your amazing work!
Highly recommend everyone to buy or perhaps print for themselves before the upcoming three day YT in quarantine….