Welcome to the My Encounter with the Rebbe blog!
The My Encounter with the Rebbe project was launched by JEM in 1998, aiming to document the unknown and untold 
story of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of blessed memory’s life.
Many tens of thousands of individuals visited with the Rebbe privately, seeking counsel and direction. Many times that number communicated with him in writing. It is largely through these relationships that the Rebbe had his impact on world Jewry. While his published works fill countless volumes, the how and what of his impact on lives and communities – and in fact, an entire generation – remain as yet, untold.
It is this body of firsthand, undocumented, accounts that the My Encounter oral history project seeks to preserve.
The project has already collected over two hundred and fifty videotaped testimonies in which ordinary individuals and public personalities detail the relationship and correspondence they maintained with the Rebbe. Ranging between one and seven hours in length, each interview tells a different personal story – together, comprising a testament to the Rebbe’s far-reaching influence and impassioned leadership, and a tool to teach generations that follow. Although most of the interviews are conducted in English, Yiddish and Hebrew, some of them are done in Spanish, French and Russian as well. (more…)
