• Publisher's Foreword
  1. Translator's Introduction
  2. Publisher's Foreword
  3. Norms And Beyond The Norm
  4. Turning Fire Within
  5. "In Those Days, At This Time"
  6. Preface By The Editors Of Hatamim³

• "Fathers Of Chassidus"
  The First Three Generations (The First Generation: The Baal Shem Tov)
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• "Fathers Of Chassidus"
  The First Three Generations (Second Generation: The Maggid Of Mezritch)
  1. 6.
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• "Fathers Of Chassidus"
  The First Three Generations (Third Generation: The Alter Rebbe)
  1. 8.
  2. The Alter Rebbe's narrative:
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• "Fathers Of Chassidus"
  The First Three Generations (Torah Scholarship In Reissin)
  1. 19.
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  3. 21.

• Reb Yitzchak Aizik Of Vitebsk (Reb Yitzchak Aizik)
  1. 22.
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  3. My saintly grandfather, the Rebbe Maharash, related the following to my saintly father:
  4. 24.
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  6. The Rebbe Maharash's narrative is interrupted, and Reb Yitzchak Aizik tells his own story:
  7. 26.
  8. 27.

• Reb Yitzchak Aizik Of Vitebsk (Reb Zelmele Stutzker)
  1. 28.
  2. Reb Yitzchak Aizik interrupted his own story and provided some background concerning his uncle:
  3. The gaon Reb Zelmele related to his nephew Reb Yitzchak Aizik:2
  4. 29.

• Reb Yitzchak Aizik Of Vitebsk (Reb Shalom Yehudah, The Illuy Of Semilia)
  1. At this point, the story of Reb Zelmele Stutzker is interrupted with Reb Shalom Yehudah's story, as he related it to Reb Zelmele, who in turn told it to Rav Yitzchak Aizik2
  2. 30.
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• Reb Yitzchak Aizik Of Vitebsk (Reb Zelmele Stutzker (resumed))
  1. We now resume the narrative of Reb Zelmele's own story, as he told it to Reb Yitzchak Aizik.2
  2. 35.
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  8. Reb Zelmele's story, as retold by his nephew, the gaon Reb Yitzchak Aizik, concludes:
  9. The chassid Reb Yitzchak Aizik concluded his story to my saintly grandfather, the Rebbe Maharash).

• Reb Yitzchak Aizik Of Vitebsk (Epilogue)
  1. 41.
  2. 42.

• The Debate In Minsk (The Alter Rebbe's Adherents, And His Opponents)

• The Debate In Minsk (Preparations For The Debate)
  1. The Previous Rebbe related:

• The Debate In Minsk (At The Debate)
  1. Reb Zelmele related:
  2. [Reb Yitzchak Aizik described the scene]:
  3. The Alter Rebbe's brother Reb Yehudah Leib told the Tzemach Tzedek:

• Letter By The Previous Rebbe
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  11. The following is a parenthetical story, but very important to understanding this discussion:
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• The Rebbe's Response To The Previous Rebbe's Letter

• On The Subject Of Miracles
  1. My grandmother related:

• The Alter Rebbe's Later Years

• The Previous Rebbe's Ancestral Tree

• Founders Of Chassidism & Leaders Of Chabad-Lubavitch

• Glossary

• Geographic Terms