Editing Moshe Feinstein (section)

== Support for the Rebbe's Mivtzoyim ==
Rav Feinstein was an enthusiastic supporter of the Rebbe's activities and mivtzoyim and even expressed this in writing on many occasions.

In 1976, when the Rebbe launched Mivtza Neiros Shabbos Kodesh, he wrote: "Regarding the matter of Shabbos candles for girls, which the Lubavitcher Rebbe shlita is working to establish among Israel, that some people said I am opposed to this matter. They never heard such a thing from me, particularly since many practiced this in public in previous years. And if the Rebbe thinks it is a great thing to bring people closer to Torah and Shabbos observance through this, who can say it isn't so. May Hashem grant him success in his intention to sanctify Heaven's name, and in his desire to increase Torah observers and Shabbos observers in Israel."

In 1976, the Rebbe declared it "Shnas HaChinuch" and launched Mivtza Chinuch. Rav Feinstein joined the call and wrote: "Not long ago, this great man, the Gaon and Tzaddik of Lubavitch shlita, issued a call of awakening to strengthen the matter of education everywhere. I join his call, and my intention is that everyone is obligated to ensure that every Jewish boy and girl who still do not receive kosher education should enter kosher institutions, to Talmud Torahs and yeshivos al taharas hakodesh."

In 1978, after the Rebbe's health episode on Shmini Atzeres, Rav Feinstein wrote a general letter to the rabbonim of Israel: "In connection with the health situation of the Gaon and Tzaddik the Lubavitcher Rebbe shlita, who dedicates day and night to spreading Torah and strengthening Yiddishkeit, and bringing Jewish hearts closer to their Father in Heaven. I hereby turn to the honorable rabbonim shlita in every place, to speak in shuls and batei midrash, to awaken their communities regarding the known mivtzoyim of the Lubavitcher Rebbe to merit our Jewish brethren with the mitzvos of tefillin, mezuzah, Shabbos candles, etc... Certainly every action in these mivtzoyim will strengthen his health."

In Iyar 1980, during a period when the Rebbe strengthened the matter of Lag B'Omer parades, Rav Feinstein published a letter in which he called to assist the parades.

==== The Rebbe's Torah Scroll Initiative - 1982 ====
In 1982, when the Rebbe announced the writing of communal Torah scrolls for Jewish unity, Rav Feinstein purchased approximately fifty letters for himself and his family members through Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Levin, secretary of the Rabbinical Alliance. He requested that the money and lists be delivered through his friend Rabbi Nachum Trebnik, who was the Rosh Yeshiva and Rav of Kfar Chabad, since he had encouraged him about this. During that conversation, Rav Feinstein and Rav Levin discussed negative comments made by someone about the Rebbe's activities. Rav Feinstein defended him saying, "He doesn't mean anything against the Rebbe personally, he's simply not accustomed to the Rebbe's global activities. He's used to the way of the Torah giants of the previous generation who were active within their own four cubits, and he doesn't understand that today is a different time where we must also act externally."

==== Rambam Study Initiative - 1984 ====
In 1984, when the Rebbe announced the takana of studying Rambam, Rav Feinstein announced that he would join in fulfilling the Rebbe's directive. Regarding those who opposed the takana, he said that "they don't understand at all the Rebbe's approach, that his words are founded in holy mountains." Each year, before the Yarchei Kallah in New York, he would send a Torah pilpul on the Rambam. At the completion of the first cycle of Rambam, when opposition to the Rambam takana increased, he wrote: "My blessing of the Torah is sent to all participants in the completion of the first cycle of studying the Mishneh Torah of the Rambam... Yasher koach to the Lubavitcher Rebbe shlita, who merited and brought merit to the rabbis with the mitzvah of Torah study lishma, which is equivalent to all. May it be Hashem's will to lengthen his days and years, that his wellsprings should spread outward to spread Torah and yiras Hashem to the masses, until the coming of Moshiach speedily in our days, amen."

==== Support for Tomchei Tmimim ====
Rav Feinstein viewed the Tomchei Tmimim yeshiva network, founded by the Rebbe Rashab, as centers of holiness and purity influencing thousands of Jewish communities worldwide. In a letter of blessing to the yeshiva, he blessed its success in surviving the Holocaust in Europe and its flourishing in America under the Frierdiker Rebbe, with the Rebbe's leadership. He also sent letters of blessing and encouragement for the establishment of Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim in Caracas, Venezuela's capital, and to Yeshivas Ohr Elchanan in Los Angeles.

==== Family Recognition ====
On one occasion, his son-in-law, Rav Tendler, also expressed his admiration for the Rebbe's worldwide activities: "In my role, I travel extensively worldwide and frequently meet Chabad chassidim. I can say from my experience that Chabad is present in every location in this world, to awaken Jews not to forget the Torah. Recently, I visited Las Vegas. During the visit, I stayed with the local shliach Rabbi Harlig, and saw up close the greatness of his work... to prevent the forgetting of Torah."