R. Yosef Wineberg

Rabbi Yosef Wineberg, once called Chabad-Lubavitch’s “globetrotting ambassador” and the first in the United States to have a regular class on Chabad philosophy broadcast over the radio waves, passed away Wednesday at the age of 94.

For the past 50 years, a little-known radio program has been taking a foundational 18th-century Chasidic text and promulgating its lessons weekly through the New York City airwaves. With its launch, it revolutionized study of the Tanya and laid the ground...

Since its initial release 35 years ago, Lessons in Tanya has been an indispensable key to accessing the Tanya, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi’s seminal work of Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidut. Now, a remastered edition of Lessons in Tanya‘s classic English tran...