Shneur Zalman of Liadi. Tanya-Likutei Amarim [the fundamental exposition of Chabad Chassidism]

(CHASSIDISM)

Saphograph Co.

Brooklyn

1953

With corrections in a number of hands, including that of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Mondschein, Sepher HaTanya: Bibliographia (1981) pp. 123, no. 42

THE FIRST TANYA PRINTED IN AMERICA, THIS COPY WITH MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS IN THE HAND OF THE REBBE. Although the Vilna edition has remained the standard layout for all subsequent editons of the Tanya, in preparation for the publication of the first American edition in 1953, the Lubavitcher Rebbe noted that a number of minor corrections were still in order. Using this printer's proof, the Rebbe indicated in pencil a handful of errors to be attended to. This copy was then forwarded to the printer to be used as a matrix for the printing of the thousands of subsequent editions published all over the world for decades hence. Accompanying this lot is a description specifying the importance of this work, along with a letter written by R. Chaim Shaul Bruk, editor of Hanachoth BeLashon HaKodesh, attesting as to which pencilled corrections are in the hand of the Rebbe.