Letter with New Year Blessings from Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson – Mother of the Lubavitcher Rebbe – Tishrei, 1960

Letter with New Year Blessings from Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson – Mother of the Lubavitcher Rebbe – Tishrei, 1960
Letter with New Year wishes, by Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson, to R. Alexander Sender Yudasin of Tel-Aviv. Brooklyn, Tishrei, 1960.
Autograph letter signed by the Rebbetzin, with her blessings for the New Year: "…I wish you a good year, a gmar chatima tova, a year of life and peace with the entire Jewish People".
The pious Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson (1880-1965), mother of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the last Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe was the daughter of R. Meir Shlomo Yanovsky Rabbi of Mykolaiv. Wife of the Rebbe's father, R. Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, she devotedly stood by his side during the Communist rule, first in his capacity as Rabbi of Yekaterinoslav (today Dnipropetrovsk), and afterward in their exile to the village of Chiali in Kazakhstan after he was expelled by the authorities as a penalty for his religious activities to preserve Jewish observance. In Kazakhstan, the rebbetzin produced ink from weeds to enable her husband to write his Torah novellae and later risked her life by transporting his writings while traveling from place to place. The Likutei Levi Yitzchak series on the Zohar were printed from these writings. Rabbi Levi Yitzchak died in Kazakhstan in 1944 and in 1946, the rebbetzin crossed the Russian border to Poland, eventually arriving in Paris in Adar 1947. Upon hearing that his mother reached Paris, her son the Rebbe, who already lived in Brooklyn at the time, boarded a plane to greet his mother after their 20-year separation by the Iron Curtain. The Rebbe stayed in Paris for three months to arrange all the necessary permits for his mother's immigration to the US and in the month of Sivan, embarked by ship to the US. The Rebbe the Rayatz died three years later and was succeeded by Rebbe Menachem Mendel and until her death, she assisted her son who honored her excessively. The Rebbetzin was very involved in the lives of the Chassidim and in various Chabad activities and served as a member of the board of Neshei and B'not Chabad in the US. In 1964, she began publicizing her memoirs in installments written for the newspaper Di Yiddishe Heim and thoughtfully requested the editor to omit the chapters in which she described the suffering and hardships endured by her great husband so as not to pain her son. In 1983, the biography Em L'Yisrael was printed about Rebbetzin Schneerson's special character and history.
Aerogram. 30.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Folding creases.