Practical Kabbalah and the Art of Printing: The unusual publishing history of Rabbi Schnuer Zalman's Tanya
Since the time of the Baal Shem Tov, Chassidisim has attached messianic significance to the dissemination of Chassidic thought. In the modern era, this was the driving idea behind the Rebbe's campaign to publish the Tanya all over the world, which chassidim understood to have a practical impact on cosmic events.
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Dr. Tali Loewenthal is Lecturer in Jewish Spirituality at University College London, director of the Chabad Research Unit, author of Communicating the Infinite: The Emergence of the Habad School and of Hasidism Beyond Modernity: Studies in Habad Thought and History (Littmann Library, 2020), and a frequent contributor to the Chabad.org weekly Torah reading section.
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