(Sixth Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, 1880-1950). Autograph Letter Signed, in Yiddish, on letterhead, written to “Nurse Madam Sheine Matla Lotz.”

SCHNEERSON, YOSEPH YITZCHAK

Tuesday, 22nd Iyar

Brooklyn, NY

1948

“Ensure that you utilize this time well, as far as possible with good, refined company. May God Almighty provide you with bliss in everything. Thank God all is fine with me and I am taken care of very well. Do write often. [From the one] who blesses her [signature].”

A rare, entirely hand-written letter, composed toward the end of the Friediker Rebbe’s life. Strongly conveys the depth of feeling between the Friediker Rebbe and Sheine Matla Lotz (affectionately known within the Schneerson family as Schvester Mania), who was the Rebbe’s medical nurse from the time of the family’s escape to the United States from Nazi Europe in 1940, until her marriage. This letter was written shortly following the engagement of Schvester Mania, who married R. Yitzchak Rosin on the 10th Adar, 1949 (see accompanying photograph). A warm letter written by the Rebbe to a trusted individual who was crucial to his daily care and welfare for the last decade of his life.