Glasses of Rebbe Rashab of Lubavitch – With Letter of Authenticity Signed by His Granddaughter Rebbetzin Chanah Gurary

Glasses of Rebbe Rashab of Lubavitch – With Letter of Authenticity Signed by His Granddaughter Rebbetzin Chanah Gurary

Glasses of Rebbe Shalom Dov Ber Schneersohn – Rebbe Rashab of Lubavitch.
Letter of authenticity enclosed (handwritten note, in English), signed in Hebrew by Rebbetzin Chanah Gurary (1899-1991), eldest daughter of Rebbe Rayatz and granddaughter of Rebbe Rashab: "I hereby gift… the glasses of my grandfather the Rashab. He wore them in the final weeks of his life". Dated 10th September 1989.

R. Refael Nachman (Fole) Kohen in his book Lubavitch VeChayaleha mentions the glasses Rebbe Rashab wore: "The rebbe did not carry in public domain on Rosh Hashana, and when he went to Tashlich, he would give his siddur and glasses to one of the students. Once he gave me the siddur and glasses, and when we reached the river, I wished to return them to him, and the students around him wished to give them themselves to the rebbe but I refused. I pushed forward and gave them myself" (p. 29, note 9). Another testimony is brought in the book Ashkavta DeRebbi, by R. Moshe Dov Ber Rivkin, where he describes the final days before the passing of Rebbe Rashab on 2nd Nissan 1920: "I did not budge from his bed and from him almost for even a second, until he was taken… and throughout his illness I would help him sit up or stand when he had to… and I would pour water on his hands when he wanted to wash his hands" and he mentions the glasses the Rashab needed when praying from a siddur: "I would put his glasses on him each time he would pray from a siddur (apart from Sunday when he put them on himself) and he did not help me at all" (ibid., p. 52).

Good-fair condition. Minor defects.