Editing The Rebbe Maharash (section)

== His Facial Features and Portrait ==
A presumed portrait of the Rebbe Maharash, according to the tradition of the Ginzburg family, descendants of the Rebbe Maharash.

"The likeness of the Rebbe Maharash" was published in the "Algemeiner Journal." It was drawn by R' Shimon Zaltzman who never saw the Rebbe Maharash but drew it based on the description of his brother R' Avraham Zaltzman who had seen the picture in the home of the Rebbe Rashab.

In the Rebbe's note to a talk from 10 Kislev 5744, the Rebbe writes, among other things: "Regarding the Rebbe Maharash, we also do not have a picture of him (before us, as some say that his picture was found but for some reason was not published)." The Rebbe emphasized the words "before us" and "some say" in the note.

On another occasion, the Rebbe said that there is no picture of the Rebbe Maharash.
[[File:אוהל המהר"ש.jpeg|thumb|The Gravesite of The Rebbe Maharash]]
No definitive portrait of the Rebbe Maharash is known, but throughout history there were three portraits that were presumed to be of the Rebbe Maharash:

# A picture existing in the Library of Agudas Chassidei Chabad. It is said that the Rebbe instructed not to publish it for various reasons [source needed].
# A drawing was published in the Algemeiner Journal by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson. It was drawn by R' Shimon Zaltzman who never saw the Rebbe Maharash but drew it based on the description of his brother R' Avraham Zaltzman who had seen the picture in the home of the Rebbe Rashab.
# In the Ginzburg family, descendants of the Rebbe Maharash, a portrait was passed down from generation to generation with a tradition that it is a portrait of the Rebbe Maharash.
[[File:מיוחס למהר"ש.jpg|thumb|Estimated portrait of the Rebbe Maharash, according to the tradition of the Ginzburg family, descendants of the Rebbe Maharash.]]
[[File:מיוחס למהרש 3'.jpg|thumb|The Appearance of the Rebbe Maharash Published in the newspaper "Algemeiner Journal." Drawn by R' Shimon Zaltzman who did not see the Rebbe Maharash, but drew it according to the description of his brother R' Avraham Zaltzman who saw the picture in the home of the Rebbe Rashab.]]
According to tradition, the facial features of the Rebbe Maharash were similar to those of the Rebbe Rayatz. This is based on a story that the Rebbe Rayatz told and the Rebbe repeated many times:<blockquote>During the Baal HaGeulah's famous visit to the Holy Land, one of the chassidim of the Rebbe Maharash came to him for yechidus, and immediately upon entering the room fainted! When they asked him the reason for his fainting, he answered: I saw in the Rebbe's face the countenance of the Rebbe Maharash... He hadn't seen the Rebbe Maharash for decades, and upon seeing the face of the Rebbe Maharash [in the Rebbe Rayatz], he immediately fainted<ref>12 Tammuz 5745 - Hisvaaduyos 5745 Vol. 4 p. 245</ref></blockquote>
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