#1 History of Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson - True Chabad, loving home - RC Dalfin

today is the yard site the 60th yard site of the re's mother so I'd like to share begin the bringing with a little history of the ritson's life the rebon was born talking abouton KH in 1880 in NV she was born there because her father the mayor schma yanovski was the rabbi one of the rabbis in nikol her who wrote the sh was the previous R in niol and when he passed on his son-in-law that Maya took over so she grew up in a family of great scholarship and this is important to to a know and to understand I'll tell you why amongst great men and women within the Jewish world within the to World each one has their cup of tea the the household of the lauts yanovski and the this particular became a by by by by marrying reic there was a tremendous amount of scholarship in other words I'm not talking now about what we call situs Holiness that's a different story that's also so true but there was in Hebrew there's a word Aid or aumes an educated person they were educated people not only in the field of T but in other fields as well and I don't say this you know just as Aid who has to feel that way has to say it no I'm I'm talking now historic and I'll give you just a few examples the was well versed in dduk in Hebrew grammar how many of us over here at this table know dduk very well I admit I don't know well even though I went to laab Yesa high school with Rabbi gar and Rabbi laik and we had in high school a a a class on U on Hebrew and I remember what they taught me you know it's all nice but I'm not I really don't know Hebrew Hebrew di well enough that knew Hebrew bduk well number two she spoke Hebrew well now you talking about a woman late 1800s 1880 to 1900 1910 and is scholarly in the Hebrew language to speak it to understand it that was a novelty and it was even a greater novelty in these type of homes because there's too much to say but just you know we we'll say it briefly generally in particular even L the more from and L litx were very much against the Hebrew language and the knowledge of the Hebrew language I'm not talking about KES language because it smelled and smacked of Zionism right Zionism was TR so anyone that dabbled and in that field was a suspect Okay so here he talking about a woman who knows this and knows it well this was a novelty another example that had a cousin his name was abam shalansky he was he he he came to and he became a very famous poet has anyone heard of this cousin shalansky so he wrote his his Memoir and it was translated and and I read lots of it and there especially is a part there he tells over kind of inside theer you inside what's going on he lived in the his his parents lived in the same building Asic I think he on the same floor they were cousins I I don't remember right now how they were cousins they were cousins so he he tells over that he go into the house and play with the three boys that have been his two brothers and when he went into the room what do you see what do you see in in kids rooms you know even from kids rooms you know barem that they don't have rock stars on the on the on the wall that's okay you know the and his brother's hat on the wall can anyone guess Rao my dear could you guess what that ever had on the wall no astronomy charts astronomy charts that's scholarship that's education not that we should there was there was a cleverness let's use another word a sophistication of T values expressed also in the sciences and cultures of the world that the family had and a particular more thanik was a great love and a mle and a sadic and who runs the home we all know the mama the mother so because she came from education she educated her sons and shalansky tells over how another thing that was very emphasized in their home was Nina Nina songs why why well a yanovski were Levan and I believe someone told me I didn't have a chance to check it that was also Ley does anyone know but that's what I was told I think so B right what's the a of song so that's just they were Le but in addition to that they were composers of leab nim and we'll sing one of those nunim in a moment because you all know the and you probably don't know that was composed by the by so n to what's n what's song it comes from a refinement the writes in a he says like this I'll translate a moment in the one that doesn't have an expertise a talent of Nina is lacking a real talent understanding and I want to tell you my friends I was a besides a tal and I saw firsthand how this individual with all of his genius and but Nina was such an important part and when he sang A nigan it wasn't just singing a niggan every every movement was emphasized every movement had a meaning there was a before and an after and you know where was the kind of HED of kabad Nina the city of nikol nikol why nikol she'll say because and theis were there and they were great they great it's more than that told me once like this it's a famous for but he told me once there were two type of that came from a from a city called kuk you know uh which is in Ukraine today right and they went to the they came back and see them came from the AL that those families came from NV yanovski and they came back they went to the rash they went to the mar and they came back said that when who were known as great musulin great intellectuals in the study ofus would come back the people would ask them what was the opening paragraph the opening line the opening POS the opening kazal of the the M that the Reb said in other words what enamored them what what what caught their attention the mimer theis the intellectualism the depth when a came back from n you know what the in would from the they would say feeling how's the doing they weren't so interested in the mimer they were interested in the actual physical health stamina of their re nikol was a very I use the word emotional type of a atmosphere for was more of the intellectual you had what was called the better the gari there's a lot to say and time is short there's too much to talk about so we'll just but General it's like saying the from Roosevelt's community in Pittsburgh are a certain style in Florida who has an Community another style right every Community has a culture and by the way this is something that i' I've written about extensively and people don't pay attention enough to this the culture you are what your culture is what culture were you raised in what culture did you adapt what is your culture and the culture makes a big difference like aall my dear friend rafall here who came from Bor Park he told me years ago there's no place like borrow Park RAB renfeld also grew up in Ro Bor Park I also grew up right I don't think I don't know about him I you know I like B Park but the way Rafal said it to me was very interesting you know and he's not a bar Parker boy I think you're from Manhattan ra fall or something Bronx Bronx okay A Bronx every place has its culture RAB was raised in nikol and reab had parents and grandparents who were very pneis deep inner who they they they in addition to everything else they had feelings and warmth and Roosevelt mentioned I want to just take off on this for one second because I don't know if if every anyone picked up on that you heard what he said that the re put his hand under his mother and walked for third now if I ask you why did the rebba do that what would you say what would you say she was an older woman right even 1947 when she came I think she was already in her 60s 18 yeah she was born in 1880 right 60s an older woman you put your hand you know and then then 70s 80s for sure and that's true but I think it's a lot deeper it's it's much the Russian and I saw this my father was a Russian and I saw this by the the Russian really I saw it by them let me tell you a story within a story to to to understand this I was once in the home of a ye named shto the konit is not right he happens to be my my father was he was his cousin they grew up together like best friends him M kazina and and men were like the best buddies when they little boys in in Russia and they grew up together so I went to talk to them anyway in Middle the phone rings and who is on the phone his sister Basia azimov azimov from France the main over there my dear friends if you saw and heard the way he went to that telephone and said my love my dear one how are you feeling I the love and and and connection went through the telephone I saw it my own eyes I heard it the Nik with this way and grew up in this culture so when you think about that when deba puts his hand under his mother that is the same warmth that those nikol had and it's not as though oh my mother is old my mother shouldn't trip I'm going to now my hand under her and that's a side benefit it doesn't begin there it begins with the AIS the soul love that that's the experience so just to continue on for another few moments about the reit's history she had a very hard life Reb Rosenfeld mentioned before her memoirs it's really a of an obligation everyone here to read that cover to cover and yish Hebrew English maybe it's in other languages it's a must-read it's an original diary we call that writing Dr Morris what do we call that a writing you're a writer a primary source not a secondary a primary source seldom do we have primary sources I just got back from Cincinnati I researched at the American Jewish archives to find primary sources because much of what we write and what we read frankly are Bubble baloney stories unless you have authentication from an honest person who you know either experienced it or heard it or you find a source and there's not especially today people have gone on in in things that I write about you know who can I talk to so when Rabbi Kar was in Florida and I met him there I sat with him and I and I and I and I took the time I want to hear from a person he's no youngster and and he was around so I listen Rafal Eisenberg is older RAB Rosenfeld in other words the people with the white beards on one hand he could say they're over the hill and and the youngsters feel that way right the truth is we need youngsters very much the future which this Yeshiva gives the future for the for laich at the same time the elders are an anchor the elders are so important my here we grew up I grew up in second grade on before Ocean Parkway second grade little boys we grew up together in Yeshiva so the the the um the primary so the this what I was getting here her diary is a primary source so I really encourage you to read it okay so she had she if you read the diary she had a very hard life I'm sorry until she came to America in 1947 and she would say I I think she even writes it I think she says in her diary my best years are here in America cuz I have my son with me and again there I I you know if I may say so it wasn't cuz I have my son the re of course he's and he's our and he's it's her son if you understand the humanity is so important that's what I'm getting at there's a Humanity here that makes this real and the same is true by the way in our own lives children grandchildren what what did he what are youth looking for re to be real to be real someone once said came to leich back in the 70s 60s 7s with the hippies and the gurus and the Buddhism and some of you tasted that right what did they see actually RAF told me something that I I always repeat I asked Rao once at my table he would come quite often to eat with us and I asked him what got you I don't know ra have you told this they don't know anything what enamored you about the re this is a six a product of the 60s like you know what what did you see in the re and you know what he told me may I share it he said I saw in the re he I don't know if he used the words but someone sitting on a day with 3,000 people all around reminded him of the gurus over there in whatever in India wherever he went right malus everyone is turned on a different way to of course at the end of the day the RAB had a hard life and she comes to America I'm talking about that you know after that BL passed away in 1944 she was devastated and this is also a primary source by someone named who helped the re's parents and after away he helped reab and I have his um I have his mem as well hopefully he'll come out one day as a book so he says there that the Ritson didn't want to go out she stayed in her little Hut now we would call that you know depression call it whatever you want I don't know you know today where with labels depression Melancholy you know mental illness she was to herself another thing with Russian gon they hate taking I saw this my father-in-law he would never ask for anything till the end they hate taking they hate asking for themselves so she didn't ask anyone went to her and he said he says you have to leave and I bought you a ticket please take it and he thought she was going to give him a hard time she doesn't want to take the free ticket the circumstances was so difficult that she agreed and she took the ticket and then she went out with the Shalom with the you know the all the bites and came to the D camp this is a hard life a husband was young such a going and the starvation the told me things that he heard from the evson because him and his wife had speak her a lot he told me Mish there was no food for shabas he opened up the whatever the equipment of frer was there was nothing there shabas is coming and he told me that she told him once it was um an hour before chabas and AIC is pacing back and forth pacing back and forth I forget now and she says to him Le how she called him or my man they usually they didn't even they said my man my husband out of respect and she said it with a very great pain and I believe it stops I don't remember now the kazal he quoted a kazal I forget now I think that chabas itself is mades that chabas itself becomes the kides and he continued walking back and forth do you understand the poverty we should never understand it we don't understand it and we should never want to understand it but that's that's the life that they had this was very very difficult for them very difficult so she comes to America and she gets from 47 to 64 gets those years the good years so it's in this background that this special woman who gave us our re right the mama mama right in where we go to D this is our mama mama so it's it's a special occasion that it's that we have a to to sing and help that we should have only