A Treatise on Ecstasy
October 18, 2026
A 38-page Hasidic book hides a remarkable story of censorship and survival. A coded publication date reveals how Jewish printers in Tsarist Russia deceived the authorities to keep forbidden books in circulation. Follow A Treatise on Ecstasy from Chabad's world of mystical thought through war, revolution, and the nationalization of the Schneerson Library.