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Chabad. Handwritten Chabad ”Bichel”. Maamarim by the Rebbe Rashab, 18 Maamarim Collection of pamphlets, chassidic maamarim, said by Rav Shalom Dov Schneersohn of Lubavitch, the Rebbe Rashab. Written in the margins of the first maamar: ”Through the above word is a sermon copied from the holy manuscript of the Rebbe shlita.” On the last page of the manuscript is the word מוגה, indicating that it was compared to a reliable copy or the actual manuscript of the Rebbe. Eighteen maamarim, including one from the Tzemach Tzedek. 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. List of Maamarim: Maamar Zechor Es Asher Asah Licha Amalek Maamar Kol Haneheneh [Drushei Chatunah, 1892] Maamar L'Olam Yehei Adam Nizhar - 1894 Maamr Zechor es Asah Licha Amalek - 1927 Maamar Lamah Tokin B'Shofar [1893] Maamar Shofar shel Rosh Hashanah - 1893 Maamar Ki Savo'u el Ha'aretz [1906] Maamar Mi'Baal Tzemach Tzedek (Ohr HaTorah, Parshas Vayeitzei) Maamar V'Samach Yado al Rosh Ha'Olah - Vayikrah 1893 Maamar Tefilin D'Marei Alma - Bar Mitzvah 1893 Maamar U'Biyom HaBikurim B'Hakrivchem Minchah Chadashah - 1894 Maamar Tzena U'Rena Maamar V'Habriach HaTichon - Terumah 1894 Maamar U'Bichodesh HaShivi'I - Second night of Rosh Hashanah, 1894, Lubavitch Maamar Vayihi B'etzem Hayom Hazeh - Parsas Bo, 1895, Lubavitch Vayomer Hashem el Avraham Lech Licha Mei'Artzicha - Parshas Lech Licha 1895 V'Ra'isi Ani She'yesh Yitron - Parshas Achrei Mos - 1898 Lachen Emor L'Bnei Yisrael - Parshas Va'era 1898 135 leaves with text on both sides (about 270 pages): 17x21 cm. Various writers. Solitary blemishes and holes. Bound together in a nice, new binding. This manuscript has not been compared to the printed versions. 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).