Editing The Kuntres Pokeach Ivrim (section)

== Content of the Kuntres ==
The sefer deals with practical guidance for a [[Baal Teshuva|baal teshuvah]] in their conduct. In his holy letter about the sefer, the Frierdiker Rebbe writes that "the subject and content of the twenty-eight chapters of the sefer Pokeach Ivrim is detailed, like a collection from various places in the sefer Derech Chaim – the third section from Shaar HaTeshuvah V'HaTefillah."

In that same letter, [[The Rebbe Rayatz|the Frierdiker Rebbe]] relates at length the story of the baal teshuvah R' Shlomo Leib, whom the chossid R' Yosef of Beshenkowitz was involved in bringing closer to Yiddishkeit, after becoming a wagon driver under special instruction from the Alter Rebbe specifically so that this would lead to R' Shlomo Leib's return to teshuvah. According to the details of the story, the Frierdiker Rebbe explains that it appears the Mitteler Rebbe wrote the Kuntres Pokeach Ivrim for him, which is also the reason for writing the kuntres in the spoken language of that time - Yiddish.

In its first editions, the sefer had 28 chapters. The Frierdiker Rebbe notes in his letter that he has in writing another 12 chapters that the Mitteler Rebbe wrote but were not printed, since by then the sefer Derech Chaim had already been printed. These chapters were first published in [[Hatomim - Warsaw|Kovetz HaTamim]] and were printed as part of two of the sefer, from the 1940 edition onwards.