“Where are you?” God’s question to the biblical Adam, says Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1812), actually addresses every person in each and every generation. God is asking us, “Where are you in the world? What is your place in it? What have you done with the years that you have already lived?” Beginning and ending his lecture with this question and the story around which it revolves, Professor Wiesel shows how Rabbi Shneur Zalman, founder of Chabad Hasidism, forged a distinct intellectual Chasidic path, the legacy of which can be found today in Chabad centers the world over. In presenting Rabbi Shneur Zalman’s portrait, Professor Wiesel gives “a taste” of his central book, the Tanya, which conveys “philosophy and ethics and Talmudic ingenuity and mystical intuitions,” a “total image of the Hasidic experience.” Yet the lecture focuses on the three events that became turning points in Rabbi Shneur Zalman’s life: his encounter with the Maggid of Mezeritch; his imprisonment in St. Petersburg; and finally, Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. And through each event and its challenges, Rabbi Shneur Zalman remained loyal to the mission of spreading the message of a Hasidic “commitment to fervor.”