As part of the preparations for Yud Shvat – the yahrtzeit of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, and the day when Menachem Mendel Schneerson became the Seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe – it is customary to study the “Basi LeGani” maamarim that the Rebbe delivered on this day each year.
This year, the maamarim from the years 5722 and 5746 (corresponding to 1966 and 1986 in the secular calendar) are studied. Our website is pleased to present our readers with a special booklet.
To recall: all the “Basi LeGani” maamarim delivered on Yud Shvat by the leader of our generation, the Seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, are based on the work of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, consisting of four treatises under the general title “Basi LeGani” (a quote from “Shir HaShirim,” or “Song of Songs” – “I have come into My garden, My sister, My bride”). The Sixth Rebbe instructed to study this work on Yud Shvat, the anniversary of his grandmother’s passing; however, his own soul also departed this world on Yud Shvat. On the first anniversary of his passing, the Seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe began delivering maamarim based on his father-in-law’s book. Each year, the Rebbe delivered a maamar based on one of the chapters from the work of his father-in-law, the Previous Rebbe. There were twenty such chapters across the four treatises. Over twenty years, the Rebbe fully commented on the entire work of the Friediker Rebbe, and the following year, he began the cycle anew. Therefore, Chabad Chassidim study two maamarim of the Seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe each year, each delivered twenty years apart.
This year’s study corresponds to the maamarim that were delivered in 1966 and 1986.
Photo: 10 Shevat 5735. Jewish Educational Media.
