Epistle 27 – Part 1 – video podcast podcast Tanya part 4 Epistle 21 - 32 Epistle 26 – Part 6 – audio podcast Epistle 27 – Part 1 – audio podcast Part (a) The Alter Rebbe wrote this letter of condolence to his chassidim in 1788 after the passing of his colleague and mentor, the saintly R. Mendele of Vitebsk (or Horodok), who had settled in the Holy Land in 1777.