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A letter from Rebbe Rayatz – R. Yosef Yitzchak Shneersohn of Lubavitch, to R. Alexander Zushe Eliaschewitz, a Russian rabbi who escaped Bolshevik Russia. Warsaw, Cheshvan 1934.
Typewritten on the Rebbe's official stationery, with the Rebbe's handwritten signature "Yosef Yitzchak".
The letter contains the Rebbe's blessings to R. Eliaschewitz, "G-d should fulfill his heart's desires for the best, and should arrange for his honor a place suitable for him with decent livelihood, and G-d should help him bring over his family in the near future. One who inquires of his wellbeing and blesses him – Yosef Yitzchak".
The Rebbe Rayatz, R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880-1950) was the sixth Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch court. He founded Yeshivot Tomchei Temimim together with his father the Rebbe Rashab (Rebbe Shalom Dov). He assumed the title of Rebbe in 1920. After a period of extensive underground Jewish activity he directed with his disciples, he was incarcerated by the Communist regime and later released in 1927. He went to Poland, and in 1940 arrived in the United States. He went on to establish the Chabad World Center in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y.. Among his writings: Sefer HaMaamarim, Likutei Devorim, and more. One of his sons-in-law, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn succeeded him as the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
The letter is addressed to R. Alexander Zushe Eliaschewitz (ca. 1880-1948), outstanding Torah scholar and rabbi in Russia and Tel-Aviv. He served as rabbi of Chereya and Chocimsk in Russia from 1902. After escaping Bolshevik Russia in the early 1930s, and printing his book Drashot L'Ameinu U'LeDateinu in Riga, 1933, he immigrated to Eretz Israel in ca. 1934 where he served in the rabbinate of Tel-Aviv. He published his books Elef HaMagen in three parts (Jerusalem, 1945-1946) and would deliver lectures on the Talmud on the radio in Tel-Aviv.
[1] leaf, official stationery, approx. 22 cm. Good-fair condition. Minor tears and wear to the margins and folds.