From 1959 until 1994, a businessman from Manchester, UK - Reb Zalmon Jaffe - chronicled 70 visits to the Lubavitcher Rebbe; Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson in Brooklyn, NY.He published those diaries in twenty-six yearly paperback volumes entitled My Encounter with the Rebbe.Through brilliant and rare depictions, Reb Zalmon captured the pulse at 770 with the Rebbe in a layman's down-to-earth style, adding plenty of humor too.To read My Encounter with the Rebbe is to gain a personal perspective of what it was like to be in the Rebbe's presence on a daily basis.Modern Chabad-Lubavitch history and literature are incomplete without these writings.The present hardcover form of My Encounter with the Rebbe was edited and published by Mr. Jaffe's grandson, Rabbi Pinchas Lew. Besides now adapting US English spelling, not much else of the original yearly boklets was changed.