Auction of Rebbe’s License Plate Removed After Lubavitch Pushback

by CrownHeights.info

The Moreshet Auction House in Israel made headlines last week after it launched a recent Chabad Auction featuring a license plate allegedly belonging to the Rebbe’s car. Then they took it down.

According to a report by Israel Hayom, the auction house removed the item from the lot over what it claimed was shaming undergone by someone completely unconnected to the sale, but who is suspected of selling the plate.

The sale of the plate had elicited mixed feelings within the Lubavitch community, with some finding such an artifact to be an incredible fin, while others felt that such an item should not be for sale.

Some though, thought that the plate itself was a fake, showing a long history of items sold by Israeli Auction Houses being portrayed as historical Lubavitch items, while they were in fact nothing of the sort.

The most famous case was the sale of a kiddush cup allegedly used by the Rebbe and endorsed with a letter of authenticity by the Rebbe’s Secretary Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky. The item was outed as a fake by Rabbi Krinsky, who stated that the Rebbe never owned or used the cup, and he had never written any letter of endorsement.

Other such auctions included a series of items portrayed as having been given by Mrs. Hanna Gurary, the daughter of the Frierdiker Rebbe, to Shaul Shimon Deitsch, including never before seen or heard of photos of the Rebbetzin.