FROM DAY TO DAY Young Scholar’s  Daily Calendar & encyclopedia

From day to day

The Young Scholar's Daily Calendar and Encyclopedia, in English, was a project of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, done under the direction of the Frierdiker Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson.

The Rebbe worked on this project in conjunction with Rabbi Nissan Mindel as he customarily did with other publications in the early years of Chabad in America. Rabbi Nissan Mindel was part of the newly established Chabad Publication Society, founded by the Frierdiker Rebbe for the dissemination of Chassidic literature for young and old.

With the Rebbe's guidelines, Rabbi Nissan Mindel composed the texts of this Young Scholar's Daily Calendar and Encyclopedia, which the Rebbe then carefully selected for the specific day it is intrinsically connected with. This format is similar to the one used in the regular and well known Hayom Yom, which was published around the same time and which is studied daily by tens of thousands of Jews.

We have expanded this Daily Calendar and Encyclopedia for Young Scholars by including a Hebrew translation (M'Yom L'Yom) of the original English so as to benefit a wider readership and have also included some footnotes for the ben efit of the reader.

The enclosed M'Yom L'Yom for Young Scholars in English is the exact way it was written when it first appeared in 5703 and 5704 (with the exception of a few expressions in Old English - such as thou and thy - which were changed to the more conventional English you and your).

The memorandum included at the end of each week in the original, we include here at the end of each month. Also please note that with the expansion b'h of Chabad both in the U.S.A. and the world in the past 60 years - the message at the beginning of the book that encourages children to address their questions to the educational department in 770, today can include many local Chabad centers as well, which will meet the needs of our inquiring young scholars.

What was originally called a pocket calendar (5703) and a pocket encyclopedia (5704) due to their small size, is now a book, in their new combined and expanded version.