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

(CHASSIDISM).

Funn, Rosencranz, Schriftsetzer

Vilna

1872

Large paper copy with marginal notes by R. Eliyahu Yoseph Rivlin. From the Library of R. Haim Liberman.

Mondschein, Tanya Bibliography no. 25; Likutei Hagahoth Lesepher Hatanya, Brooklyn, 1974, pp. v-vi.

As noted on the title, the marginal notes (with a three pronged star enclosed in brackets) are by “Harav HaChassid R. Eliyahu Yoseph” - that is, R. Eliyahu Yoseph Rivlin of Dribin. Author of Oholei Yoseph (1956) he was one of the key disciples of the Mitteler Rebbe and later of the Tzemach Tzedek. Described in Beth Rebbe (part II p. 15) as “the one who understands the depth of the meaning of his masters more than all other Chassidim.” R. Rivlin’s marginal notes are certainly of importance and the editors of Likutei Hagahoth Lesepher Hatanya also found others by him in the Chaim Eliezer Bichovsky Tanya as well. They were unable to identify the author of the other marginal notes in the present, although some of them are from the Tzemach Tzedek. Alongside lengthy explanatory discussions, the notes contain cross-references to many Chassidic, kabbalistic and a host of other works. Although the editors of Likutei Hagahoth Lesepher Hatanya record their thanks to R. Haim Liberman for loaning this Rivlin Tanya, many of the marginalia do not appear in the above volume nor in the Kitzurim VeHa’aroth by the Tzemach Tzedek (1989).