Bidspirit auction | Sefer HaTanya - Edition #78

Sefer HaTanya - Edition #78 Printed in Fayid during the Yom Kippur War - Egypt 1973 - Sefer HaTanya by the Admor HaZaken. Printed at the IDF Fayid base in Egypt “on the Western side of the Suez Canal”, Fayid, 1973. 78th edition. Originally, [2], 222 leaves. Tanya edition #78. Pocket edition: 11.5 cm. Mondshine Sefer HaTanya 68. The first 2 title pages (of three) are missing. Stains and minor blemishes. Good overall condition. The 78th edition of the Tanya was printed with a mobile printing press during the Yom Kippur War at the order of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson: “to show that not by 'כוחי ועוצם ידי' was Africa conquered, or Egypt as it is called, but rather 'ברוחי אמר ה' צבאות'”. The printing was enabled due to the efforts of General Rabbi Zvi Lipsker, a Chabad Chassid, and required the special permission of Ariel Sharon, the Division Commander; it sent shockwaves through the newspapers of the time, which all wrote about the devotion of the Chabad Chassidim to their Rebbe. The printing took place about a month after the Rebbe first ordered a printing in the area, the 75th edition of the Tanya, around Hanukkah. There are slight variations in the title pages between the two editions. During the Rebbe's Sichah on Chag Hage'ulah, Tamuz 12, 1974, he said (freely translated from Yiddish): ”And especially when this Tanya is now studied, and from this Siddur one prays, and a Psalm is recited from this Tehillim... then it becomes openly revealed that in Fayid there is an eternal presence of Toras Hashem and His Mitzvos, including also the inner dimension of the Torah... And particularly now that the Tehillim and Siddurim are present here, and Jews are studying and praying with them, or reciting a chapter of Tehillim from them... by this, they bring closer the true and complete Redemption.”