ABOUT THE INDEX

Know what you’re reading.

A catalogue of Chabad works, original sources and English translations, beginning with the maamarim published through openTorah.

One work, several editions

A work is the discourse or treatise itself. Its source editions, translations and commentaries are separate records. Different PDF layouts do not count as different translations. A partial translation does not establish that a whole series is available.

What is included

The initial import reconciles 14 publications from the Besht library with their pipeline artifacts. Two Neirot works have catalogue listings only. This is not a complete Chabad bibliography, nor a complete inventory of any publisher. “No matches” describes this index, not everything published in English.

Search and reading

Search titles, Hebrew opening words, authors, collections and known transliterations. Passage search searches the openTorah text revisions recorded in each edition. Hebrew vowel marks do not affect matching. Results link to edition details and the existing Besht reader; the new reader is being built separately.

Editorial evidence

Source text and translation remain unchanged during import. We preserve source references and revision hashes. A pipeline artifact does not establish independent human review. Known gaps, including untranslated notes or unavailable printed notes, appear on the affected edition.

Access and reuse

This deployment offers online discovery and excerpts. It provides no PDF downloads, bulk text exports or public text API. The project owner has enabled online use of the openTorah editions here; this is not a general license to redistribute them. Source copyright and third-party permissions require their own evidence.

External publisher listings link to the publisher. Free access is not recorded as a reuse permission. Where a copyright notice, rights holder or permission has not been verified, the catalogue says so. The existing Besht website retains its own behavior and downloads.

Growing the catalogue

Next comes edition-by-edition research into Neirot, Kehot, Chabad.org and other initiatives, including original-language sources, exact translation coverage and permission evidence. Only then can we make reliable statements about gaps in the recorded corpus.