Rav Dovid Tzvi Chein Radatz

Rabbi Dovid-Tzvi Chein, the chief rabbi of Chernigov, known as the Radatz [1846-24 Kislev (Erev Chanuka) 1926], a major Lubavitcher chasid, renowned for his scholarship and piety. He is one of the only three people to receive rabbinical ordination directly from the Rebbe Maharash. In early 1926 he left Russia and settled in Jerusalem, together with his son-in-law, Rabbi Shalom-Shlomo Schneersohn, Rabbi of Nikolaev and brother of Rabbi Levi-Yitzchak Schneersohn, father of the 7th Lubavitcher Rebbe. Until this day, many of his descendants are important Lubavitcher-Chabad chasidim.