The Chabad shochet certified in these letters, Rabbi Naftali Gloskin, son of Rabbi Schneur Zalman, a shoel u’bodek in the Rezitza community. He was son-in-law of Rabbi Shimon Moshe Diskin of Lechovitz, forefather of the Chabad Diskin family. His wife, Marat Tamar Ita was friendly with Rebbetzin Chana, the Rebbe’s mother, and even visited their home in Almaty (Kazakhstan) during the war. At the end of the war the Gloskin family moved to Moscow, and later Rebbetzin Chana also appeared in Moscow and the family took care of her then despite the fact that the “Schneerson” family had a black mark against them at the time from the authorities.
8 letters of smicha from important rabbis, with dates listed for each of them.
1. Rabbi Refael HaKohen of Nevol. Elul 1925. Rabbi Refael Kohen (Der Rav) (1889-1941), an important Chabad rabbi in the generation before the Shoah. He died sublimely when he gave his life to save the Torah scrolls during a fire set at the synagogue by the Nazis in his rabbinical city of Riga.
2. Rabbi Eliezer Yosef ben Shlomo Dov Bolotin of Chernigov. Adar 1926.
3. Rabbi Avraham Dov Beer Reinin, Av Beit Din of Retzitz. Sivan 1926.
4. Rabbi Shmuel Heschel of Pinsk, 1925.
5. Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac HaLevi Herzog, when he served as Chief Rabbi of Israel. Av 1950.
6. Rabbi Yehuda Leib Don-Yehi, the Chassidic rabbi of Chernigov. Adar 1926.
7. Rabbi Dov Berish Weidenfeld, Ga’avad of Chevin (duplicate, printed signature). Sivan 1963.
8. Vaad Rabbanim Charedim in France, stamped by the secretary Rabbi Yaakov Daim Liechtenstein. Shvat 1949.
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