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Three Letters by the Lubavutcher Rebbe to Rabbi Eliezer Nannas, ”The Man who did not Surrender”, who was Known for his Total Devotion - Extremely Rare - with Important Additions and Corrections in his Handwriting - Three letters signed by the Lubavitcher Rebbe to Rabbi Eliezer nannas. A. Letter from the 14th of Nissan 5732 (29.3.1972). ”Before Passover, the time of our freedom … I want to express my greetings … for true freedom … and to continue such freedom and joys all the days of the year…” B. Letter from Tamuz 1978, ”… in honor of the 50th anniversary of the publication of the article …” Important, interesting content regarding the blessing of the Rebbe Rayatz to Rabbi Nannas. C. Letter from the 25th of Av 5744 (23.8.1984), ”I hereby confirm that I have received your letter … and in a time of heavenly mercy it will be read on the grave of the Rebbe…” Rabbi Eliezer Nannas (1897-1997). When he was five, his father brought him to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, the Rebbe Rashab, who told him that ”just as Pharaoh's sword did not control Moses, so with you, there will not be a sword that will control you”. He studied at the ”Tomchei Temimim” Yeshiva in Lubavitch. The Rebbe Rashab used to send him on missions to the Rebbe's father, rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneersohn and to Rabbi Yosef Ruzin, the Rogotchover. On the eve of Yom Kippur 1936, he was imprisoned in Rostov, where he was locked standing in a cupboard until the end of Yom Kippur. Several months later he was sentenced to ten years of forced labor in Siberia for studying Torah with children and opening Cheders. There too he continued to observe Mitzvoth and kept his beard and side locks. When the ten years of his sentence ended, he was sentenced to ten additional years for the religious activity he had participated in. And again, for the next ten years, he went through hardships, mortal danger, confinement, beating and forced labor, all these while he was living among thieves, criminals and murderers. ”According to my calculations”, he once said, ”I have been in confinement close to a thousand five hundred Sabbaths and HolyDays”. What had given Rabbi Nannas the strength to survive all this were the words of the Rebbe Rayatz that their sword will be unable to control him. He was imprisoned in 1936 when he was forty and returned from Siberia in 1956, when he was sixty. 11 years later, he immigrated to Israel and lived in Jerusalem. He died in 1997 when he was a hundred years old. With time, Reb Laser wrote down what had happened to him in soviet Russia, during his imprisonment and exile until he immigrated to Israel. His story was published (by Heichal Menachem Jerusalem, edited by Reb Naftali Zvi Gottlieb) in two volumes titles ”Ha'Ish shelo Nichna” (The Man who did not Surrender). The book was translated into English and additional languages. Condition: Very Good.