• Translator's Introduction
  1. Editor's Jottings

• The Alter Rebbe (Misnagdim And Maskilim)

• The Alter Rebbe (The Alter Rebbe's Public Service)
  1. As an example, I insert here an excerpt from my diary, as I recorded it at the time.
  2. The first event:
  3. The Second Event:

• The Alter Rebbe (Shimon Of Zamut)
  1. [Here is the story as Shimon himself reported it]:
  2. [Reb Nachman's speech, as quoted in Shimon's report]:
  3. [This Ends Reb Nachman's speech. Shimon's report now continues]:
  4. Next, Shimon reported on his visit to Liozna:
  5. [This ends Shimon's report]

• Reb Baruch's Secret Studies (Reb Baruch "The Silent")
  1. The wealthy philanthropist Reb Avraham, second son of the prominent philanthropist Reb Baruch, related what he had heard from his father:
  2. [Reb Baruch himself takes up the narrative]:
  3. Reb Baruch's story
     [told to his master and Rebbe]:
  4. [This ends Reb Baruch's story told to his master and Rebbe]

• Reb Baruch's Secret Studies (At The Yeshivah)

• Reb Baruch's Secret Studies (Reb Baruch's Secret Studies)
  1. [The narrative is resumed by Reb Baruch's son]:

• Reb Gershon Dov Of Pohor (Prologue)
  1. 43.
  2. Thursday, 25 Tishrei 5658 [October 22, 1897], Lubavitch, 2:00 A.M.
  3. 44.

• Reb Gershon Dov Of Pohor (Reb Gershon Dov)
  1. [From the Previous Rebbe's Diary]:
  2. This is Reb Gershon Dov's story, as he himself told it:
  3. The Previous Rebbe's diary continues:

• Reb Gershon Dov Of Pohor (Reb Meir Zalman And Reb Abba)
  1. We now continue the story as Reb Abba himself told it to the chassid Reb Yitzchak Shaul,16 who repeated it to Reb Gershon Dov:
  2. [The narrative is now resumed by the Previous Rebbe]:

• Reb Gershon Dov Of Pohor (Reb Shlomo The Coachman And Reb Yitzchak Shaul)
  1. Reb Gershon Dov's narrative resumes:

• Reb Gershon Dov Of Pohor (Epilogue)
  1. [From the Previous Rebbe's Diary]:

• The Previous Rebbe's Ancestral Tree

• Founders Of Chassidism & Leaders Of Chabad-Lubavitch

• Glossary

• Geographic Terms