Derech Chaim (Hebrew: דרך חיים, "The Way of Life") is a work on the subject of repentance by the second Rebbe of the Chabad Hasidic movement, Rabbi Dovber Schneuri.

Rabbi Schneuri, citing the Talmud, states that the wicked are termed "dead" even during their lifetime,[4] however, through repentance those who have sinned may renew their connection with God and are "returned to life".

Interpreting the verse "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up,"[7] Rabbi Schneuri describes the former sinner drawing inspiration from God who comforts the "orphan" repentant.

[8] In 1956, the seventh Chabad rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, encouraged yeshiva students to study Derech Chaim and other works on the subject of Teshuva during the month of Elul, a time of the year associated with repentance due to its proximity to the Jewish High Holy Days.

[3][13] The work was later reprinted a number of times by the central Chabad publishing house, Kehot Publication Society,[14] beginning in 1947.