Rabbi Yoel Kahn, scholar who preserved Lubavitcher rebbe's words, dies at 91

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Rabbi Yoel Kahn, left, circa 1979, led teams of young scholars in the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement in the arts of memorization, repetition and transcription. (Jewish Educational Media/The Living Archive via JTA)
Rabbi Yoel HaKohen Kahn, whose job was to memorize and transcribe the extemporaneous talks by the Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, died on July 15. He was 91.
As the rebbe’s chief “chozer,” or oral scribe, Kahn was adept at the arts of memorization, repetition and transcription, according to Chabad.org. Schneerson would deliver lengthy, complex Torah homilies to his followers, and Kahn and a team of scribes would memorize them and submit them later to Schneerson for editing.

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