Editing Yehuda Shmotkin (section)

== Tel Aviv Period ==
In 1937, he moved to Tel Aviv and opened a store on Allenby Street, later moving to live near it on the same street. In response to his notification to the Frierdiker Rebbe about opening the store, the Frierdiker Rebbe sent him a blessing letter thanking him again for his care in sending books and pamphlets to the Lubavitch library, and blessed him with abundant parnossa.

Following the Frierdiker Rebbe's request in 1948 that Kehot Publication Society consider republishing the Sdei Chemed series, the publishing house representatives approached him on behalf of the Rebbe as the inheritor of publishing rights from his father who had purchased them outright. Once permission was granted, Kehot began working on editing the series, and upon completion, Rabbi Smotkin received the Rebbe's thanks for his agreement and was given distribution rights in Eretz Yisroel, receiving a complete set from Kehot.

In 1952, he was among those involved in transferring the body of the Rebbe's brother, Rabbi Yisroel Aryeh Leib Schneerson, from Liverpool, England to the Jewish cemetery in Tzfas. After completing the project, the Rebbe thanked him for his part and asked to know the amount he spent on the matter to reimburse him for his trouble.

In the following years, the Rebbe encouraged him to expand and develop his business in the book trade, writing to him: "It is surprising that you are not expanding the business according to experts' instructions."

Alongside his business dealings, he was heavily involved in spreading the wellsprings of Chassidus throughout the land, and the Chabad newsletter contains many reports of his travels to various settlements and visits to yeshivos throughout the country, where he farbrenged and brought Chassidic ideas to the broader public.

He passed away on 14 Shevat 5742 (1982).