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Chabad. Chabad Bichel, Maamarim of the Rebbe Rashab, Stencil duplicates and original manuscripts Eighteen chassidic maamarim, said by Rav Shalom Dov Schneersohn of Lubavitch, the Rebbe Rashab, between 1894-1900 (his nesius began in 1894). 16 maamarim are stencil duplicates, and the other two maamarim, 24 pages, are original manuscripts. The Rebbe Rashab (1861-1920) was the fifth Rebbe of the Chabad dynasty. He was the son of the Maharash, son of the Tzemach Tzedek, son of the Mitteler Rebbe, son of the Alter Rebbe. He established the Tomchei Temimim and Toras Emes yeshivas and was very involved in helping Russian Jewry who suffered terribly from persecution and pogroms. He wrote hundreds of chassidic maamarim that were published in 29 volumes. The Rebbe Rayatz was his son. On leaf 120b, signature of Rav Yaakov Horkav [הורקאוו] of Kharkov, rebbe in Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Odessa. [155] leaves, 16x21 cm. Tears and holes in solitary leaves of the stencil and light stains. New leather binding. The Chabad ”Bichel” In the past, Chabad did not often print seforim, though they had many seforim. Instead of printing their works, they created a system of copiers or writers (known as ”Schreibers”), first in Liozna, the cradle of Chabad chassidus, then in Liadi and later in Lubavitch, where the Mitteler Rebbe settled…The copiers copied the Torah that the Rebbe said.. The system worked as follows: The Rebbe said Torah to the chassidim. After Shabbos or Yom Tov, the Rebbe would give this same Torah, handwritten, to his head copier. This copier would copy it over, return the manuscript to the Rebbe, and use his copy to made many other copies. Every chassid who returned home with new Torah, would allow chassidim in his own city to copy the Torah again…Once a chassid collected a number of such pamphlets, he would have them bound together, into a ”bichel.” (Reb Chaim Lieberman, Ohel Rochel, section three p. 20-26).