Editing The Rebbe Rayatz (section)

== Activities for Russian Jewry ==
At that time, the Czarist regime made life difficult for the Jews, and therefore the Rebbe Rayatz had to go to the authorities several times to try to soften their stance and change it for the better. Sometimes he had to do this with literal mesiras nefesh and risk to his life.

In 5664-5665, during the Russo-Japanese War, he assisted his father the Rebbe Rashab in supporting Jews who were fighting on the Russian-Japanese front, and ensuring they had kosher food and matzos for Pesach.

After the war, pogroms against Jews began in Russia. The Rebbe Rayatz worked through diplomatic channels to try to get the authorities to stop the pogroms.

In 5670 he assisted his father at the Rabbinical Assembly of 5670, and in 5674 helped fight in the Beilis trial and prove Beilis's innocence.