Happy Chassidic New Year: Please join us!

This day marks the "birth" of Chassidism, when the long-hidden secrets of Judaism emerged from the womb of mysticism to illuminate and transform the totality of Jewish life. [View Online Version]( ב״ה --------------------------------------------------------------- 19 Kislev [Portrait of Alter Rebbe]( The New Year for Chassidism By the Grace of G-d Dear Friend, Shavua tov and Shanah Tovah! The 19th and 20th of Kislev (this year Shabbat and Sunday, December 5-6) are widely marked as the anniversary of the "birth" of Chassidim, when the long-hidden secrets of Judaism emerged from the womb of mysticism to illuminate and transform the totality of Jewish life. Celebrated worldwide as the “Rosh Hashanah of Chassidism,” these days are marked with personal and communal learning as well as public gatherings – this year primarily virtually – to explore and apply the "inner soul" of Torah to our daily lives. Two of the primary annual observances are to communally complete (and divide up for the following year) the entire Talmud, and to personally begin anew the daily study cycle of that hallowed and famous guide to inner life known as "[the Tanya]( We'd like to extend a special invitation to you to join our amazing teachers and mentors to study this seminal work with us this year, complemented by a host of online resources. Below you can find a sampling of these study aides – which we hope will make the priceless book of Rabbi Shneur Zalman, founder of Chabad Chassidism, even more accessible than ever. We wish you and yours a "Happy Chassidic New Year" – a Shanah Tovah! Sincerely, The Chabad.org Team New for this year! Remastered [Lessons in Tanya]( now available on Chabad.org! [Get Started]( · [Learn More]( [Join the new cycle of daily Tanya study!]( [Read]( [READ the Tanya in English or Hebrew with commentary.]( [Audio]( [LISTEN to an audio class from Rabbi Manis Friedman and others.]( [Video]( [WATCH video classes from the late and great Rabbi Gordon.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [book]( [What is 19 Kislev?]( [More than a personal liberation, this was a watershed event in Jewish history, heralding a new era in the revelation of the “inner soul” of Torah.]( [book]( [What is Tanya?]( [Chabad Chassidus is an all-embracing world outlook and way of life which sees the Jew's central purpose as a unifying link between the Creator and His world.]( [book]( [Who wrote it?]( [A mystic, a communal activist, a philosopher, a halachic authority, a composer, a Talmudist...]( [Learn more at our Tanya minisite »]( This email was sent to: [{EMAIL}](#) [Change email address]( · [Manage Subscriptions]( · [Unsubscribe]( © Copyright Chabad.org, all rights reserved. [Privacy Policy]( [Chabad.org]( · [Ask the Rabbi]( · [Contact Us]( · [Donate](