The Rebbe's Letters · Complete Catalogue

Everything in the archive.

Every reading room, deep-dive study, dataset and deliverable built on the Igros Kodesh — one page. Letters are always shown verbatim; the citation is the primary reference.

12,727 letters 10,607 עברית 1,331 ייִדיש 789 English 10,780 topic-tagged 19 exception studies 43 pages
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Reading rooms & maps

12 PAGES
The Portal (home)The front door — the story of the letters and the table of contents. The AtlasThe whole collection at a glance — topics, eras, volumes. The Atlas · English editionThe corpus-scale statistical atlas with English framing. Search the CollectionSearch every letter, Hebrew, Yiddish or English; read any one in full. The RandomizerOpen a letter at random — filter by topics and language, translate with AI. The Topic MapHow the twelve topics divide the archive, and how they overlap. The Advice MapThe dominant advice-formula for each topic, decade by decade. Path Less Taken ★The archive's central lens — where the Rebbe departs from his own rule, topic by topic. Famous LettersThe letters people know — found, sourced and shown verbatim. How the Rebbe Wrote & Read LettersThe correspondence itself as a subject — method, volume, mazkirus. Left-Field LettersThe off-map letters — smoking, Freud, and an honest ledger of what the corpus does not contain. The Smaller CurrentsSeven thinner themes read verbatim — dreams, niggunim, shalom bayis and more.
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The twelve topics — deep dives

12 STUDIES · EVERY ONE WITH ITS EXCEPTIONS
Torah & scholarshipתורה ולימוד · 5,076 Educationחינוך · 3,080 Blessings & telegramsברכות ומברקים · 2,165 Divine service & teshuvahעבודת ה׳ · 1,753 Community & the klalקהילה וכלל · 1,623 Eretz Yisroel & the Stateארץ הקודש · 1,742 Outreach & mivtzoimהפצה ומבצעים · 1,145 Healthבריאות · 1,041 Faith & trustאמונה ובטחון · 1,021 Livelihoodפרנסה · 883 Marriage matchesשידוכים · 616 Science & Torahמדע ותורה · 62
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Cross-cutting studies

12 THREADS PULLED CORPUS-WIDE
Moshiach & Geulah528 letters Kabbalah & pnimiyus haTorah1,999 letters Segulos, the Ohel & the supernatural930 letters The festival cycle~802 teaching letters Love of a fellow Jew516 letters The Jewish woman1,109 letters The Holocaust & suffering~155 letters Joy vs. melancholy340 letters Medicine & the doctors285 letters Birthdays300 letters Mourning & consolation481 letters The English letters789 letters Curriculum & the order of study750 letters
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Special studies & sub-sites

Kuf-Samech-Tes RecoveryReconstructing a damaged corner of the record. Moshiach & Geulah — the sub-siteIts own portal: Atlas, Threads, Chiddushim, Quote Cards, the English letters — 5 views. Beshmate packageThe shidduchim study + searchable 669-letter database, packaged for beshmate.com.
Noahides package165 Bnei-Noach / universal-mission letters, tiered with an honest scope note — for noahides.com (data package).
Teshura & External Letters22 letters from outside the forty volumes — wedding-teshura finds, facsimiles, sourced compilations; provenance on every card. Memorizing Tanya (text file)All 96 corpus hits on learning Tanya by heart, verbatim and sourced — curation pass pending.
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The data layer

WHAT THE VIEWS ARE BUILT ON
corpus/ · 4 shards + manifestThe master corpus, verbatim: 12,727 records — 10,607 Hebrew · 1,331 Yiddish (detected & relabeled July 2026) · 789 English.
igros_topics.jsonlThe topic-tag master: 10,780 of 11,938 Hebrew-block letters tagged across 12 topics (6,431 multi-topic); keyword lexicon v2 + a full semantic pass on the residue.
igros_exceptions.jsonThe unified exceptions dataset — 19 topic entries, each: the rule, the departure theme, its triggers, curated verbatim cards. Feeds Path Less Taken.
per-topic stats + exceptions filesOne stats file (formulas × eras) and one exceptions file per study — e.g. health 164 rows, torah 122, shidduchim 58, outreach 37, blessings 31.
urgency · advice · lexiconsUrgency-marker rates per topic; per-topic advice formulas by era; weighted tagging lexicons (v3, v4 — 82.2% validated top-1).
corpus_expanded/ · 22 external lettersWell-sourced letters from outside the 40 volumes — teshura & wedding handouts, the Lever shidduch series — queued for integration into the master corpus.
igros_lang_candidates.jsonlThe Yiddish-detection audit trail: 1,458 candidates (1,331 merged as pure Yiddish; 127 mixed letters kept as Hebrew per policy). Shard backups retained.
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On the workbench

Curriculum & Syllabus deep dive — everything the Rebbe wrote on building a course of study (order of study, the masechtos cycle, Chassidus in the syllabus), organized by audience: children raised religious · baalei teshuva · Bnei Noach.

Corpus widening — folding the 22 external teshura/handout letters and other well-sourced finds into the master corpus, with provenance.

Tanya memorization curation · Yiddish badge sweep across the remaining views.