Yehoshua Mondshine

Following Mondshine's death, Chabad scholar, Elie Matusof, published a short book of letters titled Tzidkoscha Omedes Lo'ad (Hebrew: צדקתו עומדת לעד) from Mondshine's correspondence with him in 1987.

In 1982, Mondshine published an early and previously unknown manuscript of Shivkhei Ha-Baal Shem Tov (Praises of the Baal Shem Tov), an early collection of tales about the founder of the Hasidic movement. Mondshine added an extended introduction and appendices, examining the manuscript in relation to the various published versions of the text and assessed the treatment and perpetuation of early Hasidic tales in later generations of the Hasidic movement.

In the 1970s, the Lubavitcher Rebbe requested Mondshine to compose an introduction and indexes to the surviving writings of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, the Rebbe’s father.

Mondshine studied at Yeshivas Hayishuv Hachadash in Tel Aviv and later at Central Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva in Kfar Chabad where he studied under the Mashpia Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Kesselman. In 1968, Mondshine studied at the Central Lubavitch Yeshiva in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. As a student in Crown Heights, Mondshine worked as a lead editor assisting Rabbi Yehoshua Korf publish a new commentary to the Tanya, the classical work of Chabad philosophy.

In 1968, Mondshine married Rochel Leah Braufman (Braverman), daughter of Rabbi Dovid Braverman who headed the Kehot publishing group in Europe and the Kfar Chabad Council, and had five children. After the death of his wife Rochel in 2006, Mondshine married Devorah Kwin-Althaus. Mondshine's son Rabbi Dovid Mondshine is the director of the Ohr Avner Foundation.

In around 1960, Mondshine began corresponding with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, when he requested and received a blessing ahead of his Bar Mitzvah. Mondshine continued to write to the Rebbe, confiding his teenage anxieties and seeking spiritual advice; Mondshine, in one early letter, included a list of textual variants he had noticed in the Chabad prayerbook compared to earlier sources. The Rebbe referred him to a number of sources where he could explore the issues and discover an answer for himself.

Yehoshua Mondshine (1947–2014) was an Israeli rabbi, scholar, researcher and historian associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch, Hasidic movement. Mondshine worked as a librarian and bibliographer at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.

Yoshua Mondshine was born on January 30, 1947 (or 9 Shevat, 5707, in the Hebrew calendar), in the city of Tel Aviv, Israel.