Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the intellectual branch of Chassidism known as Chabad, is credited with bringing the deepest secrets of Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah down to earth so they could be understood by the average person. And yet, written in scholarly Hebrew, these keys to the essential core of Judaism were locked away, untranslated, for almost two hundred years. In this, the first volume of a projected six-volume series, master teacher Wagshul, does not merely translate the original material, he clearly explains it in friendly, articulate English for scholar and layman alike
