Large Farbrengen
- We should organize well-attended farbrengens on the day of the Rebbe Maharash’s birthday (as well as on the days surrounding it, and on Shabbos in particular).
Torah and Mitzvos
- These farbrengens should be carried out in a manner that bolsters and encourages the participants to increase in all matters of Torah and Mitzvos – and to do so in a manner of lechatíchilah ariber.
Farbreng Everywhere
We should arrange these farbrengens in each and every location – starting right here [in 770], in close proximity to the Previous Rebbe, Leader of our generation, grandson and successor to the Rebbe Maharash.
Readable Chassidic Texts
- We should resolve to reprint – using a clear “block” Hebrew typeset – the Chassidic works of the Rebbe Maharash, most of which were originally printed with the cursive Hebrew script.
- These new books will make it far easier to read and study his texts.
- Indeed, we should do the same with all Chassidic texts.
The need for this is further emphasized in the printed Chassidic texts of the Rebbe Maharash, the majority of which were printed using “cursive” Hebrew lettering. We should reprint them, making sure to use “block” lettering. Block letters, specifically, which are similar (although not identical) to Kesav Ashuri [the lettering used in a Sefer Torah]. It is quite possibly that this [similarity to Kesav Ashuri] is one of the reasons for many Torah authorities of previous generations (such as the Rambam) deliberately refraining from writing with “block” lettering in their handwritten works [out of reverence for the Sefer Torah]. Rather, they preferred to use other lettering such as the “Rashi” script, whose letters are slightly similar to the non-Jewish countries in which they resided. Even their printed works were generally published using “Rashi” as opposed to “block” lettering. (“Block” was [only] used for [fundamental classics such as] the Chumash, Talmud, Rambam and Shulchan Aruch). Nevertheless, with each passing generation, more and more Torah works have been printed with “block” lettering – in accordance with the instructions of leading Torah personalities, as is well known. This is also true of the printed Chassidic texts. [Originally, only] the Tanya was printed using “block” lettering, in the times of the Alter Rebbe. And only some of the works of the Mittler Rebbe were originally published this way. Nevertheless, the use of “block” lettering in printed texts has steadily increased over time, in order to make them easier for studying.
