Sefer Likkutei Amarim Tanya (Mahadura Kama) based on a manuscript – first edition, 1982, the Rebbe’s 80th birthday. [16], 624 pp.
It should be noted that this is not the second edition that was printed later in that same month after this one was sold out, but truly the first edition.
The spine is detached from the front board. Bookmark. Good overall condition,
The Kama edition (based on a Tanya manuscript), first printed here, was produced upon the Rebbe’s orders for 1982. This book has printed in the margins thousands of changes and rewordings present in the nine manuscripts of the Tanya known to the printers, as well as exegeses on the differences between the Kama and Batra editions.
The Rebbe explained in one of his Sichot the importance of the Kama edition: “In the Shas there are Halachot which are only ‘First Mishnah’, and more than that they said ‘Mishnah does not leave its place’, and more. In the Ari’s writings in Etz Chaim and more it is written in a few places ‘Mahadura Tanyana’, ‘Mahadura Kama’…and based on the differences between the Batra and Kama editions one can understand more deeply the conclusions reached by the Admor HaZaken which are brought in the Tanya as we have in front of us”, and in a few instances the Rebbe focused himself on the differences between the two editions in expounding on the Tanya.
In 1790 the Admor HaZaken was the only Chassidic leader in Belarus. In those years, according to Russian documents, there were tens of thousands of followers. In those years there many people were coming to the Admor to ask for advice and blessing, sometimes waiting days to meet with him. The Admor wrote three letters at the time, requesting that people who had already seen him be limited in coming again, which would allow new people to visit him more easily. On that basis, the Admor wrote booklets to Chassidim on Avodat Hashem, so that they would not need to visit him in person. These he gave to be copied in 1792, and then he would correct and update them occasionally. From these booklets was produced later Sefer HaTanya.
After inexact copies were spread around, the Admor HaZaken chose, at the end of 1796, to edit and republish the booklets as the Tanya itself.
