n addition to publishing his magnum opus on Chasidic philosophy, the Tanya, Rabbi Schnuer Zalman of Liadi, the Alter Rebbe, regularly delivered Chasidic discourses. His grandson, the third Chabad-Lubavitch leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel, sifted through more than two thousand of these recorded discourses and selected the fundamental discourses for publication in the order of the Scriptural parshiot, adding his own notations and glosses.A classic of early Chasidic literature, Likkutei Torah Includes discourses on the Torah portions of Beshalach, Pikudei, the Books of Vayikra, Bamidbar, Devarim and the Song of Songs, as well as the special seasons of Pesach and Shavuot, and of Rosh Hashanah, Shabbat Shuvah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and Shemini Atzeret. It is also includes discourses on Song of Songs. Likkutei Torah is actually a companion volume to Torah Ohr, which contains discourses on Bereishit, Shemot, and on the festivals of Chanukah and PurimLikkutei Torah first appeared 5608 (1848) at the new Hebrew press in Zhitomir. Chasidim of all generations have studied each group of discourses weekly, affectionately calling them the "Chasidic Parsha."