Auction 028 - Special Auction for Pesach and 11th Nissan – Birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Likutei Amarim Tanya – Brooklyn, 1990 – Edition Distributed by the Rebbe on Yud Tes (19th) Kislev in Honor of the 192nd Year of Chag HaGeulah, and in Honor of the Fortieth Anniversary of His Appointment as Rebbe
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Likutei Amarim Tanya, by R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi – the Baal HaTanya. Brooklyn NY: Kehot Publication Society, 1991.
This edition was distributed by the rebbe on Thursday Yat (19th) Kislev 1991, together with a dollar for charity – the present lot only includes the Tanya, without the dollar.
This edition was printed in a large format in honor of the 192nd year of Chag HaGeulah of the Baal HaTanya (1798-1990), and on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the appointment of the Lubavitcher Rebbe (1951-1991).
3415th printing of the Tanya. At the end of the book, a comprehensive bibliographic section was included, with a list of all the editions and translations of the Tanya, pictures of the title pages and of the Baal HaTanya's manuscripts of the Tanya – Mahadura Kama, a brief biography of the Baal HaTanya, and more.
In a sermon the rebbe delivered two days after the distribution, on Shabbat Parashat Vayeshev 21st Kislev, the rebbe explained the idea behind the distribution of this edition.
Inscription on the title page (in pen): "19th Kislev 1990".
[3], 237 leaves. Approx. 23 cm. Good condition. Pen inscriptions inside front cover. Minor marginal creases and damage to cover.
This edition was distributed by the rebbe on Thursday Yat (19th) Kislev 1991, together with a dollar for charity – the present lot only includes the Tanya, without the dollar.
This edition was printed in a large format in honor of the 192nd year of Chag HaGeulah of the Baal HaTanya (1798-1990), and on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the appointment of the Lubavitcher Rebbe (1951-1991).
3415th printing of the Tanya. At the end of the book, a comprehensive bibliographic section was included, with a list of all the editions and translations of the Tanya, pictures of the title pages and of the Baal HaTanya's manuscripts of the Tanya – Mahadura Kama, a brief biography of the Baal HaTanya, and more.
In a sermon the rebbe delivered two days after the distribution, on Shabbat Parashat Vayeshev 21st Kislev, the rebbe explained the idea behind the distribution of this edition.
Inscription on the title page (in pen): "19th Kislev 1990".
[3], 237 leaves. Approx. 23 cm. Good condition. Pen inscriptions inside front cover. Minor marginal creases and damage to cover.