Levi Yitzchak Schneerson: Difference between revisions

== Early Years ==

== Attempted Immigration to Israel ==

To the honor of the famous Rabbi, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, Rabbi and Av Beit Din of Yekaterinoslav

We hereby note to your honor's attention that the visa period has been shortened recently, and therefore they need to be processed quickly, within the first three months after the notification about them is issued.

== His Arrest ==

== The Ohel ==

In 1989, Rabbi David Nachshon and R' Avi Taub built an ohel around the tombstone. The preparations took time, and the two visited the gravesite several times, until they built the ohel in practice in Elul 1989.

A few days after building the ohel they came to Beit Chayeinu and before leaving handed the ohel key to the secretariat to transfer to the Rebbe, but when they intended to leave for the airport, they were called urgently from the secretariat and instructed to come to 770 because the Rebbe requested that they deliver the key. Rabbi David Nachshon and R' Avi Taub were brought into the 'yechidut' room, and delivered the key and report on building the ohel. The Rebbe held the key well, looked for a moment at the key holder, where Rabbi Nachshon wrote on a note that this is the key of the ohel in Alma-Ata, and the Rebbe asked: What is this? And Rabbi Nachshon said: This is the key of the ohel in Alma-Ata. The Rebbe looked upward and said emotionally: "This is the key of the ohel". And then blessed the two:

In recent years the emissaries in the city renovated the gravesite and access to it and gave it a renewed appearance befitting this holy place.

Over the years, various initiatives were established to commemorate him. Some were initiated by the Rebbe himself, while others received the Rebbe's special affection. Among these activities and initiatives are:

* Yarchei Kallah - Annual Torah gathering in memory of Reb Levi Yitzchak held every summer at Camp Gan Israel in the United States

Reb Yosef Nimotin, son of the chassid Reb Shmuel Nimotin, lived in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan during World War II and was involved in saving lives. He merited to serve and care for the mekubal Reb Levi Yitzchak Schneerson and Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson, the Rebbe's parents. During the [[The Great Escape from Russia 1946|'Great Escape from Russia']] in 1946, he entrusted to R' Simcha Gorodetzky the shofar used by the Rebbe's father, which was inherited from the Tzemach Tzedek, to be delivered to the Rebbe. R' Nimotin remained in the Soviet Union until 1979 and maintained R' Levi Yitzchak's holy gravesite, ensuring its cleanliness and upkeep. After leaving Russia, he settled in [[Crown Heights]] and received special attention from the Rebbe due to his closeness and assistance to his father.

== His Photograph ==

The first photograph from exile in Chi'ili was printed in 1970 when his first two books were published - "Likkutei Levi Yitzchak" on the Zohar and Tanya. It was smuggled from Russia in passport photo size. When this photo was brought before the Rebbe, he wrote on the back of the chrome page "אאז"ל?" [My father, of blessed memory?]. Many claim this writing expressed the difficulty in identifying Reb Levi Yitzchak after the many sufferings he endured in Chi'ili. However, some claim that simply the Rebbe was noting who was photographed (his father's name - the person in the photo), and the 'question mark' was about the year the photo was taken.

The second photograph was obtained when a delegation was sent to Russia in 1991 by the Rebbe, among other things to redeem the Rebbes' seforim, including R' Levi Yitzchak's books. The delegation members succeeded in obtaining R' Levi Yitzchak's investigation file, which contained two photos of him from two angles taken in 1939, as was customary in those days to photograph every prisoner upon admission to prison. The photos were taken only after the investigators managed to forcefully remove R' Levi Yitzchak's yarmulke, and copies were sent to the Rebbe on the last night of Pesach and later officially transferred to the Rebbe in Elul of that year along with the investigation file in the Rebbe's room by R' Yosef Yitzchak Aronov and R' Shlomo Cunin. The Rebbe remarked that in this photo too "he looks unwell."

* Tipa Min HaYam - Arranged and adapted ideas from Reb Levi Yitzchak's teachings, edited by R' Eliyahu Wolf

* Likkutei Levi Yitzchak Reshimas Reb Levi Yitzchak with collection of explanations and possible notes - 2019

== His Family ==

Wife: [[Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson|Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson,]]                   

Granddaughter: Mrs. Dalya Rotman

* '''The Angel Gabriel''', about the renovation of the matzeivah and the identity of the Yid who merited to be involved with it, Kfar Chabad Weekly Issue 1919 page 23

* Zalman Ruderman, '''Chassidim Anshei Maaseh''' book, pages 67-84.