Spectrum: A Journal of Renewal Spirituality: Volume 1, Number 1 Winter 2005 – Special Edition

In honor of Reb Zalman’s 80th birthday, we invited thirteen of his students and colleagues to participate in a special tribute to the ‘Rebbe of Renewal.’ We felt it would give Reb Zalman true naḥas (satisfaction) to see the teachings he had learned from his own Hasidic rebbes (masters) through the eyes of his students and friends. Thus, we have collected eleven teachings and stories of Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Schneersohn of Lubavitch (1880-1950), Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of Lubavitch (1902-1994), and Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov (1908-2000), and asked Reb Zalman’s own students and friends to create new versions of these teachings, according to their own paradigm-shifted understanding.— Netanel Miles-Yépez Executive Editor