Editing The Rebbe Rashab (section)

== Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva ==
"The Rebbe Rashab, besides his great holiness and righteousness as leader of Chabad chassidim, was known from his youth among Chabad maskilim as an extraordinary genius in Chabad teachings. Elder chassidim crowned The Rebbe Rashab as 'The Rambam of Chabad teachings' as every topic explained in his Chabad teachings and discourses is established halacha arranged with all reasoning and explanations properly ordered."

On Sunday 15 Elul 1897, during his son the Rayatz's sheva brachos, The Rebbe Rashab called a conference of fifty leading rabbis and wealthy individuals then in Lubavitch for the wedding, announcing his decision to establish Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva. The yeshiva's innovation would be students' analytical study of Chassidus and following its ways. The students, called "Tmimim," would be a center of G-d-fearing, genuine heartfelt divine service. Two days later, on Tuesday 17 Elul, The Rebbe Rashab chose the first 18 students.
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Three years after establishing the yeshiva, on Simchas Torah 1901, The Rebbe Rashab gave a talk to Tmimim students based on Chazal's statement "Anyone going to war for Beis Dovid writes a divorce document for his wife." He explained the Tmimim students' purpose and established additional points in their required work as soldiers of Beis Dovid.