Bidspirit auction | SCHNEERSON, MOUSSIA (CHAYA-MUSHKA) (Rebbetzin /

SCHNEERSON, MOUSSIA (CHAYA-MUSHKA) (Rebbetzin / Wife of the seventh Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson. 1901-88). * AND: SCHNEERSOHN (HORENSTEIN), SHEINA / SONYA  (Youngest daughter of R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the sixth Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch. 1904-42). * AND: SCHNEERSOHN, NECHOMA-DINA  (Wife of the sixth Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn and mother-in-law of the Seventh Rebbe, R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson. 1881-1970). Three Autograph Letters Signed , all written to Nacha Rivkin of Jerusalem (nee Heber, formerly of Kalisch, Rostov and Jerusalem, later of New York; and wife of Rabbi Moshe Dov-Ber Rivkin of Yeshivath Torath Emeth in Jerusalem and later, Torah Voda’ath, New York). First two letters (23 lines and five lines) written entirely in Russian. Third letter written in Yiddish on verso. All three women write of their excitement for their close family friend who was soon to immigrate with her children from Eretz Israel to join her husband in America. Two pages (single leaf), clean tear at folds. 4to. Riga, 9th September / 4th Ellul, 1929. “Thank God all the horrors have passed… America is a country of great opportunities…” (R. SHEINA). “Have a happy, peaceful life! … All these days we are with you in our thoughts…” (R. CHAYA-MUSHKA). “May God assist you and your husband in finding peace…” (R. NECHOMO-DINA) .     Following the 1929 Palestine riots, the Rivkin family emigrated to the United States where Rabbi Rivkin (1891-1976), a protégé of the Rebbe Rasha’b become the dean of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, Brooklyn. Rebbetzin Rivkin (1900-88) was one of the founders of the Shulamith School for Girls in Borough Park.     Among the three Schneerson women who write here to their close friend, letters from the youngest of the three daughters of the Friediker Rebbe, Sheina, are particularly scarce . Married to Menachem Mendel (“Menik”) Horenstein in 1932, Sheina and her husband were unable to flee Poland along with the other members of the Schneerson family and were subsequently killed by the Nazis in the Treblinka extermination camp (2nd day Rosh Hashanah). They were childless. Sheina was particularly close to her sister Rebbetzin Chaya Moussia and is memorialized on the latter’s tombstone in the Old Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, New York.     Nacha Rivkin and the three Schneerson sisters were intimate, lifelong friends.