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Rabbi Chaim Bentzion Raskin (Hebrew: חיים בנציון ראסקין) was a Rabbi associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. He was born on the 19 June 1864 (Hebrew Date: 15 Sivan 5624) in the city of Dubrowna, Dubrowna District, Vitebsk Region, Belarus to a lineage of Chabad Chassidim back to the time of the founder of Chabad, Rabbi Schenur Zalman of Liadi, the Alter Rebbe (the first Chabad Rebbe). Rabbi Chaim Bentzion Raskin was a follower of the Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, the Rebbe Rashab (the fifth Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe) and Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Shneersohn, the Frierdiker Rebbe (the sixth Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe).

Reb Chaim Bentzion Raskin was a Chassidic teacher who had mesiras nefesh for chinuch of Jewish children and made it his life’s work. The Frierdiker Rebbe once made mention in a talk of the fact that “near Moscow lives a jew who gets up at four o’clock in the morning to learn, but not before he pours his heart out saying Tehillim. Why does he cry? he cries so that G-d will have mercy and his children and grandchildren will follow the true Torah path.” He was talking about Rabbi Chaim Bentzion Raskin.

He passed away on 1 November 1938 (Hebrew Date: 7 Cheshvan 5699), physically broken but emotionally and spiritually sound, and was brought to the Jewish cemet

ery that day in Leningrad (Modern Day St. Petersburg). He had been suffering from stomach cancer, and in his final days could not eat at all. His family went east when the Nazis were close to Leningrad but were afraid to go to his grave before they left. The location was since forgotten until the 4 November 2019 (Hebrew Date: 6 Cheshvan 5780) one day before the 81st anniversary of his passing.[1]

On 4 November 2019 (Hebrew Date: 6 Cheshvan 5780) one day before Rabbi Chaim Bentzion Raskin's 81st anniversary of his passing, Rabbi Levi Mondshein, shliach in Smolensk, Russia found the grave fenced in next to Rabbi Zalman Zichlin's grave in the Jewish Cemetery in Leningrad and arranged for a Minyan to daven and say Kaddish on his Yohrtzeit.