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A Gross fun 770 (Zichronos) · Episode 695 · 5 Menachem Av 5786 · 1:00

0694 - Lekutei Sichos Yiddish or Lashon Kodesh - There's No Difference

Episode description

Rabbi Leibel Schapiro shares his memories from the Rebbe, 770, anecdotes and Chassidim

Machine translation into English of the automatic Hebrew transcript.

00:02 Some volumes are in Yiddish, and some are in Lashon Hakodesh. From the beginning through volume 9, they’re in Yiddish. Volumes 10 through 14 are in Lashon Hakodesh. Then, from 15 through 29, they’re in Yiddish again, and from 29 through 39, they’re in Lashon Hakodesh again. Now, people want to know why that is, so I just want to explain that it did not come from the Rebbe. In fact, the Rebbe was once asked which he preferred, Lashon Hakodesh or Yiddish, and the Rebbe wrote, “There is no difference”—it made no difference to him. The reason it was sometimes in Lashon Hakodesh was that there was a thought that more people understood Lashon Hakodesh than Yiddish, and so on. So it was an internal question. But the Rebbe did write to him that there was no difference whether it was in Yiddish or Lashon Hakodesh.