Tzemach Tzedek & the Haskalah Movement
One who contributes from his wealth for the purpose of writing or publishing a sefer of a Tzaddik –
Behold, at any given time, and in any corner of the world, that a person studies from this sefer, the Tzaddik [on high] evokes merit on behalf of the donor through whom the sefer was disseminated.
—The Rebbe, Igrot Kodesh, vol 2
In 1843, when Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, was called upon to join the government’s Rabbinical Commission in Czarist Russia, he demonstrated unwavering determination in opposing the changes to Jewish practice and custom proposed by the Haskalah Movement.
Penned by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, The Tzemach Tzedek and the Haskalah Movement presents the background and story of this critical period in Russian Jewish history.