Sefer HaSichos (The Rebbe)
In the early years of the Rebbe's leadership, the Rebbe strongly objected to the printing of unedited transcripts in a regular manner. Only material that was edited or signed by the Rebbe was approved for printing (and even this was not common). These sichos were printed in the additions to the final volumes of Likkutei Sichos in their own section, and were arranged according to the date they were delivered.
About the Series[edit | edit source]
Starting from the year 5747 (1987), the Rebbe began to regularly edit the transcripts of the farbrengens. Since over the years there were two groups involved in transcribing the Rebbe's words - Vaad Hanachos B'Lashon HaKodesh and Vaad Hanachos HaTemimim - during the period when he began to regularly edit the transcripts, he edited both the transcript prepared by Vaad Hanachos B'Lashon HaKodesh and the transcript prepared by Vaad Hanachos HaTemimim. At a certain point, they reached an agreement between them that the Rebbe would edit one week the transcript of Vaad Hanachos B'Lashon HaKodesh to publish it in the Kfar Chabad weekly in Hebrew, and one week the transcript of Vaad Hanachos HaTemimim to publish it in the Algemeiner Journal newspaper in Yiddish.
This arrangement continued until the year 5752 (1992), and all these sichos were published in the 'Sefer HaSichos' series (5747-5752), where generally one sicha appears in Hebrew and one sicha in Yiddish.
The series includes twelve volumes with two volumes for each year, and was published by Vaad Lehafatzas Sichos.
These sichos were also printed in the "Likutei Sichos - Parshiyos" series (as an addition to the sichos printed in Likutei Sichos), each sicha in the volume of its corresponding parsha.
Sefer HaSichos Summer 5710 (1950)[edit | edit source]
In the second half of the year 5710 (1950), the Rebbe agreed to edit the transcripts recorded by Vaad Lehafatzas Chassidus, and at the beginning of the year 5711 (1951), Kehot Publication Society published "Sefer HaSichos Summer 5710 - Booklet 1" which included the edited sichos from the previous summer. This booklet was not reprinted, but a large portion of the sichos were printed in Sichos Kodesh new edition (although not all of them were printed there), and also in the first volumes of Likutei Sichos, some of them were reprinted after being newly edited [source needed].
Sefer HaSichos 5751-5752 Pocket Edition[edit | edit source]
Towards the month of Tishrei 5776 (2015) - a Hakhel year, the Sefer HaSichos 5751-5752 series (Vayikra 5751-Vayakhel 5752) was published in a pocket edition, in five volumes divided according to the Chumashim.