Kehot Publication Society

Kehot Publication Society

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Founded	1942
Founder	Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn
Headquarters location	Brooklyn, New York
Distribution	North America, Israel, South America, South Africa, Australia
Official website	kehot.com

Kehot Publication Society is the publishing division of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.

History

Kehot was established in 1941 by the sixth Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn. In 1942, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak appointed his son-in-law, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (who became the seventh Rebbe in 1951) as director and editor-in-chief.

Prior to the establishment of Kehot, printed editions of Chabad texts were limited. Since its founding, Kehot published many volumes of both Hasidic texts and general Jewish literature, growing significantly as an established publisher of Jewish books published in Hebrew, Yiddish, English, Russian, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Persian and Arabic.

Rabbi Menachem Mendel served as editor for many of the early Kehot publications. In a 1946, he wrote of his editorial work for Jewish holiday literature published in French and in English. He edited both Jewish educational literature for children as well as volumes of Hasidic discourses.

Rabbi Menachem Mendel also worked on publishing old manuscripts from the previous Rabbis of Chabad. In the first years he mainly focused on the works of the fourth Chabad Rebbe the Rebbe Maharash also writing a biography on his life. Rabbi Schneerson also published the encyclopedic work of Chaim Hezekiah Medini the Sdei Chemed, with rearranging it and adding indices In 1956 he began publishing the discourses of the First Lubavitcher Rebbe the Alter Rebbe, a project he later related as "time consuming".

Publication

Kehot is one of the largest orthodox publishing house in America publishing over 500 new titles in the last 80 years.

Sefer Hamamarim

One of the biggest undertakings of Kehot was to publish the discourses of all the Chabad Rebbe's which is an ongoing work numbering hundreds of volumes

Alter Rebbe

• Sefer Hamaamarim - discourses of the first Lubavitcher Rebbe mainly according to year (27 Volumes)
• Torah Or and Likkutei Torah - discourses prepared by the third Lubavitcher Rebbe (2 volumes)

Mitteler Rebbe

• Discourses and books by the second Rebbe of Chabad (33 volumes)

Tzemach Tzedek

• Or Hatorah - discourses written by the third rebbe of chabad (41 volumes)
• Sefer Halikkutim - works of the Tzemach Tzedek reorganized by topic (27 Volumes)
• Hanachos - discourses transcribed by the listeners (as of 2021 2 volumes)

Rebbe Maharash

• Toras Shmuel - Discourses from the fourth lubavitcher Rebbe (21 volumes)

Rebbe Rashab

• Sefer Hamamarim - Discourses from the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe (30 Volumes as of 2021)

Friediker Rebbe

• Sefer Hamamarim - Discourses from the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe (21 Volumes as of 2021)

Lubavitcher Rebbe

• Sefer Hamaamarim Melukat - edited discourses of the current Lubavicher Rebbe (4 volumes)
• Sefer Hamaamarim - Transcribed discourses of the current Lubavicher Rebbe (25 volumes as of 2021)

Igros Kodesh

Igros Kodesh (lit. holy letters) are letters from the lubavitcher Rebbes as of 2021 there are 59 volumes published including 32 volumes of the current LUbavitcher Rebbe (see Igrot Kodesh)

English Works

additional to all the deep Hebrew Chassidic texts Kehot also focuses on publishing in English for the English reader to benefit a few of there works are a bigger project like:

• Shulchan Aruch HaRav in English in conjuction with Sichos in English (10 volumes available out of 12)
• Chassidic Heritage Series - a collection of discourses translated into English with an introduction and explanation (25 volumes)
• Historical Sketches - History of Chabad from the works of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe
• The Yosef Marcus Collection - four basic Hebrew text with insights and explanation from Chassidic Philosophy (4 volumes (Pirkei Avot, Haggadah, Tehilim, and Megilat Esther))
• The Kehot Chumash - an interpolated translation and commentary on the Chumash based on the works of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Name

The name Kehot (קה"ת) is an acronym for Karnei Hod Torah ("the rays of the Torah's glory"), and the three Hebrew letters feature in the publishing house's logo. The letters also refer to the Hebrew year, 5505 (תק"ה), in which the founder of Chabad, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, was born.

Awards and honors

• (2017) Best Book Award, Religion – A Time to Heal, ISBN 978 082 669 0012
• (2015) Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Winner – Daily Wisdom, ISBN 978 082 660 0950
• (2005) National Jewish Book Award Finalist – The Last Pair of Shoes, ISBN 978 082 660 0318

External links

• Kehot Publication Society (official website)
• Kehot Publication Society (store)
• A selection of books published by Kehot Publication Society online chabad.org
• Kehot Lubavitch Sudamericana - Kehot publications in Spanish www.kehot.com.ar
• Some of the Spanish books published by Editorial Kehot Lubavitch Sudamericana can be found online here es.chabad.org
• Kehot Publication Society YouTube
• Kehot Publication Society Google maps

See also

• Soncino Press
• Hebrew Publishing Company
• ArtScroll