Document for the sale of chametz in 1936, handwritten and signed by the angel, the late Rebbe Avraham Dover ...

Document for the sale of chametz in 1936, handwritten and signed by the angel, the late Rebbe Avraham Dover Levin, was made and arranged for the chametz sale regimes of the greatest of the generation by Rabbi Dov Ber Abramowitz of New York.

R. Chaim Avraham Dov HaCohen Levine (died in New York in 1938, Encyclopedia Le'Chassidut Vol. 1 p. 566), was a disciple of the Maharash (Rebbe Shmuel Schneerson) of Lubavitch and studied under the tutelage of disciples who learned Torah directly from the father of the Maharash, the Tzemach Tzedek. R. Levine immigrated to the USA and held his court in the Nusach HaAri Synagogue in the Bronx. He served G-d adhering to the conduct of pious men who lived hundreds of years before his times. On Shabbat and Festivals, he entirely refrained from sleeping and was immersed in G-d's service the entire day. At times, he would be silent for more than 10 hours straight, standing in profound meditation (service of the soul during which all thoughts and senses are concentrated solely on G-d).

Young men surrounded him and hovered in his presence. In the US, they were referred to as the "Malachim" (angels) named after their Rebbe Avraham "HaMalach" and were distinct in their extreme piety and abstention, in their different attire and long fringes. They studied only from Slavita and Zhitomir printings of the Talmud, and had other customs that provoked American yeshiva heads. After the death of the rebbe, R. Ya’akov Schorr brother of Rabbi Gedalya Schorr of Torah V’Da’at headed the group of "Malachim". R. Levine's writings were published anonymously in the book Otzar Igrot Kodesh (Jerusalem, 1952) with the author described as "Echad (one) [acronym of Avraham Chaim Dov] of the eminent people of his times… a rabbi similar to an angel of G-d".