1. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, cites a tradition1 concerning the Approbations of the tzaddikim Rabbi Yehudah Leib Hakohen and Rabbi Zusya of Anipoli.2 This tradition originates with the Mitteler Rebbe, the son of the author of the Tanya, as follows.

2. In the introduction to the “Sources and Resources” feature, my dear friend, Yitzchak Blau, notes the work of an impressive list of scholars and talmidei hakhamim in the academic and traditional yeshiva worlds who have enriched our literary and theological understanding and learning of the Aggadot of the Talmud in the last century.