COLlive.com and Nissan Mindel Publications present “Archive Gems”, a periodical column sharing guidance from the Rebbe and unknown details of Chabad’s history in the United States.
The material is from the archives of Rabbi Dr. Nissan Mindel, the trusted personal secretary of the Frierdiker Rebbe and the Rebbe, and a renowned Chabad author of literature for young and old for close to 60 years.
Rabbi Shalom Ber Schapiro, Director of Nissan Mindel Publications, was entrusted with these treasured archives by his father-in-law, Rabbi Mindel and it is to his lasting credit that the dissemination of chassidus is thereby being strengthened.
Much of this material will be published in the forthcoming book “Chabad in America Through the Folders of Nissan Mindel,” covering Chabad’s activities in America from 1940 until 1994, as preserved by Rabbi Mindel in his folders.
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Days after the passing of her husband, the Rebbe Rayatz on Yud Shvat 5710, Rebbetzin Nechama Dina Schneersohn wrote a public letter “to our dear friends and all those who cherish the memory of our beloved and revered teacher and leader.”
Co-signed on the letter were her sons-in-law, Rabbi Shemaryahu Gourary known as the Rashag, and Rabbi Mendel Schneerson who would go on to succeed the Rebbe Rayatz and become the 7th Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch.
The 3 were also signed a few months later on a greeting for Rosh Hashana 5711.
Rebbetzin Nechama Dina passed away on the 10th of Teves 5731.
Signed by the Rebbe and his mother in law and brother in law.
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