Likutei Diburim

Likutei Diburim is a series of seforim containing chassidic talks and concepts from the Frierdiker Rebbe, as well as chassidic stories that express fundamental and deep ideas in Toras HaChassidus.

Content of the Sefer

The sefer contains four parts.

The content of the collected talks is filled with demands and requirements regarding practical avodas Hashem, stories of chassidim from the past with instructions for the future, and explanations of deep concepts in Toras HaChassidus.

At the end of part 4, the Reshimas HaMaasar was printed, containing a description of the events that occurred during the Rebbe's arrest in 1927, and memories from his childhood that he recalled during the imprisonment.

The first collection appearing in the sefer, talks from Shemini Atzeres and Simchas Torah from 1933, are actually the first talks that the Frierdiker Rebbe gave permission to print. This possibly occurred because the Rebbe stayed with him during this month and worked on transcribing the things in an organized and responsible manner.

Editions of the Sefer

Originally, the sefer was printed mostly in Yiddish and partially in Lashon Hakodesh. The sefer was printed in four parts combined into two volumes.

In 1990, a translated edition of the sefer from Yiddish to Lashon Hakodesh was published by Rabbi Avraham Chanoch Glitzenstein. In the Lashon Hakodesh edition, the sefer was printed in five parts, combined into three volumes. The fifth part contains talks of the Frierdiker Rebbe that were not printed as separate kuntreisim as Likutei Diburim [some as "kuntreisim" - the accepted term for maamarim] and were printed as additions at the end of each of the four parts of Likutei Diburim.

In 2021, the printing of Sefer HaSichos of the Frierdiker Rebbe was completed, which contains all of Likutei Diburim.

Following this, in 2022, a new edition was published by Kehos Publishing House, in which the interior of the sefer was reorganized and many corrections, notes, and indexes were added [by Rabbi Yehoshua Heshel Yarmush] and more, by Rabbi Aharon Leib Raskin [who edited most of the Sefer HaSichos of the Frierdiker Rebbe]. On Yud Tes Kislev 2023, Kehos Publishing House began publishing a youth edition in simple and clear language adapted for children.

The sefer was also translated into English.

Its Importance

In 1941, when the Rebbe arrived in the United States, he farbrenged with the Temimim and Anash, and in the middle of the farbrengen said "I heard that the American bochurim are well-versed in Likutei Diburim" and began to test them.