(The RaDa”TZ, Rabbi of Chernigov, Ukraine. 1846-1925).

R. Dovid Tzvi Chen, Rabbi of Chernigov, was exceptionally admired for his piety and saintliness, particularly within the circles of Chabad. The Friediker Rebbe, R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, wrote a touching description (reshima) devoted to Rabbi Chen’s noble character, thanking him “from the inner depths of my heart for all the goodness and benevolence he granted me and for his true closeness and affinity to my needs (Meorei Yisrael pp. 186-87). The last Rebbe, R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson also cited R. Dovid Tzvi Chen with admiration, as he was a link, via his father R. Peretz Chen, with the generation of the Tzemach Tzedek. R. Dovid Tzvi had two daughters both of whom emigrated to Eretz Israel. Musia married into the Dobruskin family and Rochel married R. Shalom Shlomo Schneerson, brother of R. Levi Yitzchak, father of R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Their daughter was the acclaimed Israeli poet, Zelda Schneerson-Mishkovsky (1914-84). See A. Chen, Bemalchuth HaYahaduth, Vol. II (1964) pp. 396-442 and B. Samuel, Meorei Yisrael (1994) pp. 168-200. See also Lots 286-288.