Letter with New Year Blessings by Rebbetzin Nechama Dina Schneerson – Bearing her Signature and the Signature of ...

Letter with New Year Blessings by Rebbetzin Nechama Dina Schneerson – Bearing her Signature and the Signature of her Two Sons-in-Law, the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Rabbi Shemarya Gur-Aryeh – Elul, 1950 – After the Death of her Husband the Rayatz of Lubavitch
Letter with New Year blessings, signed by Rebbetzin Nechama Dina Schneerson and by her two sons-in-law, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson of Lubavitch and R. Shemarya Gur-Aryeh, "Before the New Year…I hereby bless you and your family with a ketiva v'chatima tova for a good sweet year, materially and spiritually". Brooklyn, NY, Elul, 1950.
Sent to R. Alexander Sender Yudasin from Tel Aviv. The letter is typewritten on the Rebbetzin's official stationery, bearing her signature and the signature of her two sons-in-law. The letter was written in Elul 1950, within the year of mourning for her husband the Rayatz who died on the 10th of Shevat 1950. Officially, their son-in-law, the Lubavitcher Rebbe was not appointed Rebbe until the 10th of Shevat 1951. During the year of mourning, the Rebbetzin wrote a number of letters to Chabad Chassidim, bearing her signature alongside the signatures of her sons-in-law – the signature of her elder son-in-law, R. Shemarya Gur-Aryeh on the right and the signature of R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe on the left.
Rebbetzin Nechama Dina Schneerson (1882-1971), wife of the Rebbe Rayatz, was the daughter of R. Avraham Schneerson of Chişinău (Kishinev), son of Rebbe Yisrael Noach of Nizhyn, son of the Tzemach Tzedek of Lubavitch. She wed the Rayatz in Elul 1897, and was devoted to and involved in the monumental activities of her husband. After her husband was imprisoned by the communists in 1927, she wisely and courageously steered the procedures which led to his release, at the risk of her own life.
R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe (1902-1994) was the seventh Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, son of R. Levi Yitzchak Rabbi of Dnipro (Yekaterinoslav), sixth-generation descendant of the author of the Tzemach Tzedek.
R. Shemarya Gur-Aryeh (1898-1989) was a close disciple of R. Shalom Duber of Lubavitch, who chose him as husband to his granddaughter Chana, daughter of his son the Rayatz, later the latter's close assistant.
Official stationery. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Folding marks. Pinholes from a paper clip.