איש מסירות נפש, ר' משה קצנלנבויגן
Reb Moshe Katzenellenbogen o"h
Reb Moshe was son of the late מומע שרה, who helped hundreds of families of Chassidim leave the USSR in 1946, including the Rebbe's mother, Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson. He was arrested together with his mother and sent to Siberia. Reb Moshe was a proficient talmid chochom and was especially boki in ד' חלקי שו"ע. After he was allowed to leave the USSR in the 1970s he settled in London, where his brother יבלחט"א Reb Yehoshua lives. Upon traveling to New York to spend Yom Tov with the Rebbe, he was asked by the Rebbe to visit Reb Moshe Feinstein and רעד אין לערנען with Reb Moshe, to show how yidden who were raised in the USSR and were imprisoned still managed to grow in Torah.
I have always wondered how the illustrious katzenellenbogen family ended up in Chabad.
ReplyDeleteTheyre talmedei haGra. And have been Litvish talmidei chachomim for generations, and are still strong in hardcore talmedei hagra circles and Neturei Karta.
When did some of them become chabad?
Shmerel
ReplyDeletehow about the illustrious Schick family of shklov, biggest lomdim and Maskilim in Lita.
I remember Reb Moshe telling me ovef 20 years ago how he was in Soviet prison with his mother - & how he watched, through the fence, them shoot her to death. I think he said he was like 6 or 7 years old.
ReplyDeleteA most affable vareme yid.
Brother of the Raskins. (Dayan Raskin of London is his nephew.)
Yehi zichroy baruch.
-- ZIY
From other blogs it appear that he was older when his mother passed away - & that she was nifter from a heart attack, not the Soviet bullet. But I do recall him telling me witnessing a shooting through the fence etc. Can anyone clarify? Thanks.
ReplyDelete-- ZIY
i remember hearing that he was 13 years old when he was arrested together with his mother.
ReplyDeleteand his mother had a heart attack from seeing his suffering
Dayan Raskin of London is the son of Reb Sholom Ber Raskin of London and was Reb Moshe's cousin.
ReplyDeleteReb Moshe's older brother in London is Reb Yehoshua (Haishke) Raskin Shlita.