Tens of thousands of students old and young will be able to learn about some of the finer points of Purim thanks to just-released material culled from lengthy scholarly talks given by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory. The new offerings comprise material in DVD, audio and print, and have been made available online.

Rabbi Chaim Shaul Brook, who works with a team of scholars publishing previously inaccessible teachings of the Rebbe, explains that the new booklets and DVDs are the product of countless hours of research.

"After the Rebbe's passing," says Brook, "we started investing all our energy into starting anew to publish the talks from the year 1950 and on."

Headed by Brook, Lahak Publishing has occupied an office on the fourth floor of the Lubavitch World Headquarters, in Brooklyn, N.Y., since 1981. When the Rebbe – who passed away in 1994 – was still giving his regular public talks, the group would devote only one day a week to publishing older material, in between trying to keep up with publishing the Rebbe's most recent talks.

Today, some 35 volumes under the Torat Menachem title present the Rebbe's talks from 1950 until 1962.The team frequently releases talks corresponding with the weekly Torah reading or an upcoming holiday.

Prior to Purim this year (March 20-21), Lahak distributed all of the talks the Rebbe delivered on Purim, 1964. Together, the six installments of those talks fill 49 pages of text.

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