Sparks of Truth (Sfas Emes) Volume 1 Bereishis / Shemos / VayikraRabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, the Sfas Emes, was one of the greatest Talmudic scholars and Chassidic leaders of the second half of the Nineteenth Century. His commentaries on the Talmud are still indispensable, universally studied classics, and his Sfas Emes on Chumash is electrifying in its depth, breadth, original thought, and incisiveness. As the Gerrer Rebbe, he built his dynasty into the foremost Chassidic movement in Poland, purely on the

respected moral voice

Complete set of The Collected Writings of Rav S

She specializes in illustration

and how marriage is a preparation for the World to Come

and Rabbi Naftali Neuberger

two courageous brothers

which is the commencement of this

He was the unique

and Torah-saturated outlook with his "Dear Daughter

from Hungary to Auschwitz to America

whose dreams are shattered by the greed of her fiancé's father

Questions of hashkafa arise as well