Two Letters in the Name of the Admor the RYY"Tz of Lubavitch - Signatures of Secretary Rabbi Yechezkel Feigin

Two Letters in the Name of the Admor the RYY"Tz of Lubavitch - Signatures of Secretary Rabbi Yechezkel Feigin

Two letters in the name of the Admor the RYY"Tz of Lubavitch - signatures of the secretary Rabbi Yechezkel Feigin on both of them. 1939.

One letter, addressed to Rabbi Chanoch Hendel Havlin, was sent from Otvosk in July 1939 regarding the annual conference of Agudat Chassidei Chabad in the United States and Canada. In it, the Admor requests he send a telegram with Mazal Tov wishes and greetings (in English), in the style written in the letter, which is translated in the margins: 'Mazal Tov, my bothers, on your annual conference, be strengthened and Hash-m will desire the work of your hands, Chassidei Chabad in the Holy Land. The secretary's signature is in the margins of the letter.

The second letter, also addressed to Rabbi Chanoch Hendel Havlin, was sent from Riga in Shevat 1939 about rent for his courtyard which was in Chevron and asked that he write a contract which details that the landlords will be required to return the courtyard the way they received it with no changes. The secretary's signature is in the margins of the letter.

In Chabad, it is accepted that this type of letter (usually on the RYY"Tz's official stationery) that the Rebbe signed the secretary's name in his own handwriting.

The two letters are on the RYY"Tz's official letter stationery. 24x15 cm. Fold marks, fine condition.

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, the Admor the RYY"Tz [1880-1950], was the sixth Admor in the Chabad Lubavitch dynasty, which he led from 1920 until his passing. After his wedding in 1897, his father appointed him acting principal of the Tomchei Temimim Chabad yeshiva which was founded that same year. A short time after the outbreak of the communist revolution, his father passed away and he was appointed leader of Chabad Lubavitch chassidut. Due to the communist persecution of Judaism, he established a secret network of "Talmud Torahs" and yeshivas in the Soviet Union. The Admor the RYY"Tz dealt very much in Jewish activities to supply religious needs and Jewish education, which was illegal in the Soviet Union. In 1940, the RYY"Tz arrived in New York by boat from Stockholm. After a short time, he acquired the famous 770 building, where he lived his final years; this place eventually became the world center of Chabad chassidut.