THE WHOLE ARCHIVE, SEARCHED FOR YOU
Ask in plain words. The AI reads the letters and answers out of them.

17,305 records — 12,727 letters of the Igros Kodesh plus 4,578 teshura letters and maanos, in Hebrew, Yiddish and English. Every answer names the volume and letter, and puts the originals in front of you.

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AI-generated study aid — verify each citation in the letter itself.
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THE COLLECTED CORRESPONDENCE

The Collected Letters

אגרות קודש

For more than seven decades the Rebbe corresponded with thousands of people on nearly every subject — Talmud, science, education, marriage, health, livelihood and faith. Each writer received an individualized reply; a single question often opened into an extended correspondence.

This archive holds 12,727 letters from the printed Igros Kodesh (volumes א–לב held here; the later volumes are still being added) — 11,938 Hebrew/Yiddish and 789 English — topic-tagged, era-mapped, and fully searchable. Beside it sits the teshura archive: 4,578 further letters and maanos from scanned wedding booklets, searchable right here and in their own archive. Everything gathered: roughly 17,305 records — see the full ledger.

HOW THE AI HELPS YOU LOOK

Seven decades of correspondence is more than anyone can read through. Ask your question in plain words and the study aid searches the whole collection for you — Hebrew, Yiddish and English together — then answers out of the letters it found, and shows you them.

WHAT IT DOES
01 Takes a question in plain English — no Hebrew keywords needed. It works out the search terms itself.
02 Searches every record held here at once — the printed volumes, the teshura letters and maanos, and the English letters.
03 Answers only from the letters, cited by volume and letter, and lists the ones it drew on so you can read them whole.
04 Will translate any letter into English, word for word, on the spot — and you can ask follow-ups to go deeper.

The AI finds, quotes and translates — it never speaks for the Rebbe. Anything drawn from outside the archive is labelled as such.

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