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Glosses and Corrections Handwritten by the Admor the Tzemach Tzeddek on a Responsum on Hilchot Treifot by the Gaon Chassid Rabbi Yissachar ber Halevi Horowitz the Moreh Tzeddek of Lubavitch - Orsha-Lubavitch, Menachem Av 1834 - Not Published - Responsum on Hilchot Treifot by the Gaon Chassid Rabbi Yissachar ber Halevi Horowitz the famed Moreh Tzeddek of Lubavitch -with glosses and corrections handwritten by the Admor the Tzemach Tzeddek of Lubavitch - Orsha-Lubavitch, Menachem Av 1834 - not published.  This is a leaf folded into 4 pages containing a question letter on Hilchot Treifot by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Isaac Lifshitz of Orsha sent to his friend, the Moreh Tzeddek of Lubavitch, in which he asks him to ask the Admor: ”למחול לשאול פני אדמו”ר שי'”  and inform his of his response.  On verso of the question letter, the Moreh Tzeddek Rabbi Yissachar ber Halevi Horowitz wrote his response for Heiter. The Moreh Tzeddek showed his response to the Admor the Tzemach Tzeddek and Rabbeinu adorned the response with several references, corrections and additions. This, apparently, is ony the draft.  In his response, Rabbi Yissachar ber quotes the words of the Tzemach Tzeddek, which he heard from him or that appear in his writings, for example: ”ו כך שמעתי מרבינו רמ”מ שי' ב' [בשם] דו”ז [=דודו זקנו] הה”ג רי”ל [=מהרי”ל, בעל השארית יהודה”] שאנו נוהגין להקל בזה ”; ” וכן מצאתי בכ”ק [=בכתבי קודש] לרבינו שי' על הלכות טרפות שסיים כן הלכה למעשה ”; ” וכן הורתי למעשה עפ”י הסכם כ”ק אדמו”ר שי '”. The Tzemach Tzeddek writes in one of his glosses appearing here: ”וע' שו”ת נשאל דוד מהג' מו' דוד אופנהיי' בזה”, referring to what Rabbi Lifshitz noted in his question letter: מצאתי בשם נשאל דוד מהגאון מ' דוד אפענהיי' להקל להלכה ולמעשה” (Shut Nishal LeDavid was printed only in the late 1970s; however, copies of the responses were distributed among many leading Acharonim, who qoute from them. The Tzemach Tzeddek refers to this Shut again in Tzemach Tzeddek - Sha'ar Hamilu'im Section V, p. 29).  This review was written by the famed manuscripts scholar Rabbi Yosef Zvi Leader, who was among the circle of friends of the bibliographer Rabbi Yehoshua Mondshine and is an expert on Chabadic manuscripts. Enclosed is confirmation by one of the leading Chabad scholars in our generation, Rabbi Eliyahu Matusov, a member of the editorial staff of Otzar HaChassidim.  The Admor the Gaon Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, author of the Tzemach Tzeddek of Lubavitch (1789-1866) - The third Admor of Chabad. He was the grandson (via his mother) and the preeminent disciple of the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Scneur Zalman of Liadi, Baal HaTanya, and the son-in-law of his uncle, the Mitteler Rebbe, Rabbi Dovber Scneuri. When he was three,   his mother passed away and from then on, he was raised and educated as a beloved son in the home of his grandfather, the Baal HaTanya.  After the passing of his father-in-law, the Mitteler Rebbe, in 1828, he began to lead the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, which he guided for over 36 years. During the era of the Tzemach Tzeddek, the Chabad movement grew until it became the largest community among Russian Jewry. Hundreds of thousands of Jews across Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine followed the light of the Tzemach Tzeddek and adhered to him wholeheartedly. Beyond his leadership as a Rebbe and guide for Chassidim, the Tzemach Tzeddek was among the greatest Poskim of his generation. He responded to thousands of Halachic inquiries. The Tzemach Tzeddek was the authoritative figure for all communal and individual matters of the Jewish public in the lands of Reshin (White Russia, Belarus) – ”every match, every divorce, every business deal, was concluded only through him. Every dispute was brought to him for judgment. Without his consent, no community would appoint a rabbi or a Shochet-Bodek... All the needs of the Bnei Yisrael were open and known before him, their dealings, their family lives, and their social lives, and he was as the living spirit in all their activities. He was the bond through whom the hearts of tens of thousands who adhered to him were connected, and he planted within them love, brotherhood, and peace” (Alexander Ziskind Rabinovich – Azar, Toldot Mishpachat Schneerson, Sefer HaAsif, 1889, p. 166). The Tzemach Tzeddek was renowned in his time as a sacred and awe-inspiring man of God, possessing Ruach HaKodesh and a wonder-worker whose prayers and blessings never returned empty. Miraculous stories are told about him regarding revelations of Ruach HaKodesh, where with his prophetic vision he knew how to guide Agunot on how to find their husbands, whether alive or dead, and thereby release them from the bonds of their Agunah status. Some of these miraculous stories were written shortly after his passing by his disciple Rabbi Yaakov Kodner at the end of his book Sippurim Nora'im (Lemberg, 1875). His fame as a wondrous man spread even among non-Jews.