 Bornsztain's choice of the Mishnaic expression "shem miShimon o miShmuel" ("Shem" from Shimon or from Shmuel) for his title reflects the classical rabbinic play on words combining a rabbinic teaching with the author's own name.The first eight volumes of "Shem Mishmuel" cover lessons on each of the "parshiyot" (weekly Torah readings).In traditional Hasidic style, they are not printed according to the sequence of the "parshiyot", but in the order in which the Rebbe delivered these lessons to his followers.