Rabbi Eliezer Zvi Ze'ev Zirkind, one of the most important Chabad devotees in Crown Heights. Letter to Rabbi Zvi ...

Rabbi Eliezer Zvi Ze'ev Zirkind, one of the most important Chabad devotees in Crown Heights. Letter to Rabbi Zvi Mashkowitz
Rabbi Eliezer Tzvi Ze'ev Zirkind (1926 - 21st) was a prominent Chabad devotee of Crown Heights who dealt with writers and became the author who conceived the Rebbe's tefillin and mezuzah.
Born in New York in the year of his father, Rabbi Mordechai Shachna and his mother, Mrs. Ada Zirkind. Israel Jacobson.
According to the Rebbe's instruction, the customary clothing of Polish followers, which he began to wear during his affiliation with the "angels", was followed by his family.
During the Korean War in 1963, he was drafted into the Army because he did not study at the Yeshiva and was unable to get an exemption from service, and during his time in the army he insisted on keeping lightly as a cleric and continuing to grow his beard, and was arrested for long weeks in the military prison, throughout this period. Feed on eating vegetables and eggs only so as not to interfere with kosher food.
Prior to his wedding, he specialized in writers and slaughter professions, and after his marriage to his wife Reizel made a living primarily from writing writing.
Thanks to much awe of God, he was appointed as the Rebbe's author after Rabbi Yeshayahu Matlin's death, and would examine his personal tefillin and mezuzah.
Was the writer of 770, and would go through the Torah scroll of that Sabbath,
He was given the chance to check the mezuzah in 770, and also received the Rebbe's prayers to replace the strips and the like.
He was credited with writing the Book of Esther that the Rebbe used in recent years.
In the Rebbe's instruction, he wrote the Tefillin Derbino Tam that the Rebbe sent as a gift to Rabbi Moshe Feinstein's genius.
He also received a personal instruction from the Rebbe to endeavor to study the Old Rebbe's writings according to the affairs attributed to his personal writer R. Reuven Myanovich, and throughout the years he dealt with the distribution of this writ and persuaded other devotees to use it.
He had extensive knowledge of Halacha, and served as a justice teacher in the Crown Heights neighborhood, and for a time assisted in translating the Rebbe's English conversations for the non-Hebrew and Yiddish-speaking audience.
He died at the age of 83 in Sivan 2014, and was buried in the Chabad section of the Montefiore Cemetery in Queens, New York.