Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson's 60th Yahrtzeit 6 Tishrei, 2024 - Recap of her life - RC Dalfin

I want to bring with you today about's mother and this will also beas all those that lost their lives although the real yard site of course is not October 7th but nevertheless since um the world is celebrating it so that means that we as yeden have uh have to partic ipate and Elevate and do what we can so the Reb's mother scharen was actually born to her father his name was um SCH I forget how was first name yanovski yanovski May yanovski was a son-in-law ofid La who is La was a in nikol I believe which they they call it mikol with an m and you read about it on the news that there been bombings there and fighting and all that and he was the maab the author of The the saer called Shak now Shak has a very prominent place in kabad scholarship and literature because Shak what does it mean shako the general gate the general General sh Al wrote a and the in the the introduction it says that he based it on all the different in other words the is a that although it's based but the AL took it from various sources and he had a mind every Jew cuz whatever whatever tribe you come from he included it somehow in his s took the Al and he wrote a commentary on the C called sh the gate that's in inclusive it's co like our coo right it's all inclusive of people sitting together and studying and learning so this was the and and and and in the sh he clarifies many things in the Sid that seem to be different this way different this way his objective is to show a source for the AL and it's it's a very it's it's it's a s it's a commentary on the C that's used until today and the re would use it and quote from it constantly besides the fact that this was um you know the's wife's grandfather so it was dear to him as well so this is the Z the grandfather of rabit her father was yanovski and yski was also after passed away his son-in-law scha took over his position as in nikol and the yanovski were I believe levim I think and they were Bal they were very strong inab n and n as we discussed over the years is very particular and in a way different than almost all uh types of Jewish music past and present and in the future the closest thing to it that I found is mait M there's a group of the T family and some of their Nim are you know have some similarities and are also very meditative but but again there's differences there but overall theab is very different and both and her fatheri were great Bina and composers not just you know people who could sing nicely but they composed actually n someone that the taught our taught Nim for about 10 years from 19 from SIM 195 uh 1 so more than 10 years till 1964 well 13 years or so morning at 345 in the morning after Aus he'd go up to his room um go up to his mother-in-law and they would have a Suda him and his wife and then he would come back down and towards the end of 770 which is not the new Part close you know closer to Kingston Avenue but the part I think that's closer to the other side anyway he would come down and sometimes he would stand on a milk crate and he would teach a niggan usually it was one per year there was a year or two I think that he taught two nun and some of those n theab crowd including elder or those who were children of Elder weren't familiar with those n now you're talking about some venerable that go back you know to Russia and kabad and for Generations but they didn't know these because these nun came from the re's grandfather his grandfather from his wife's grandfather and her father one of the nun for example you're probably asking which n you're thinking which Nan is you know say fear one two three 4 right that that nigan is attributed to the Reb's grandfather's grandfather or father or both um one of them composed it and theba learned it as a young boy cuz he went he would travel and he he he went he stayed with his his his his grandpar parents for a while whatever and he taught n he learned nunim in addition to which his house between him and his brothers was were very melodic and they sang nun and this is attested to by the re's cousin aam shulansky um who was became later a famous poet I believe in ER and aam shulansky uh lived in the same apartment building in inak and and he writes his Memoirs and he says that he remembers hearing how reic his father would sit with his three sons and they would sing nikim for a very long time so the the the Nim in in the re's family him and his and his wife uh was prominent now rabit herself was what we Calles means educated she was educated in in not just TAA scholarship being the daughter of the daughter and Grand and granddaughter of rabim of rabbis and Scholars and authors and all of that but she herself was well educated inra Plus in in Hebrew dickd Hebrew language Hebrew writing and this was an anomaly at the time for a aidic girl from this type of family should be so knowledgeable and we're going to use a word called cultured with the Jewish experience okay why was it anomaly because many didn't allow their daughters to do this cuz it was um tiptoeing on Zionism because the whole idea of Zionism was to for the culture of of of Zionism should supersede Torah study and that it's more important you know to uh though Hebrew well Reading Writing speak talking speaking uh etc etc so me most cidic people kept their kids away from that especially girls now when I say most those that were able to do it because we all know that most failed they couldn't do it because the onslaught of Zionism at the end end of the um 19th century and uh the beginning of the of the 1900s Etc was so powerful that it lured these the youth into it and as I've said many times if you take a look even on online go online and you'll see a picture of the grandfather with a beard down to his belly button with a big yamak of covering his entire head and he looks like a a sadic and then put the picture of the son next to it or the daughter and you you you you'll be up upold it's like no beard it's not just it's not about not the beard the the the comparison is so straightened it's so obvious that the secularism crept in and it it took it just killed spiritually millions and millions of Jewish youth so for for AIT who wasn't a boy but I'm what I said before it's true for boys too for the for for men too but was a girl and and they and and you know for a girl unfortunately the attitude was by most you know she's a girl she doesn't have to learn as much she can hang out with friends she can go to the Opera go to the movies so the breakdown I I haven't done a study and I don't know if there is one but it be interesting to see but I would think that the impact of of secularism Comm and and and and Zionism and all the isms had a greater impact on girls in a certain way than on on men uh but regardless of you know the the statistics the fact is that she had both that means she was able to have the knowledge that the U the educ the secular education if you call it compared to TAA benefited her and at the same time she she she stayed strong in her commitment and this is uh this is um an anomaly as I said this is not didn't I don't want to go into it but I could tell you about other Rabon and rabbis and that it wasn't the case it was a very challenging time so was a that's what I want to get at she was an educated person in her house when the re was growing up let's give you a few examples in in in the in in the in the bedroom you know you understand they didn't have a a 21 acre house with 55 rooms okay in their little apartment in in Yer y there's one room I mean there was a room for the parents I think as far as I know and a and a bedroom for the three boys the re as two brothers and what did you have on the on the walls not rock stars and not uh other things like that you had planets Stars astronomy charts this is a type of home I'm just talking now about that that that she had on one hand her husband is this going of T this m he's Aaron and she comes from who she is and and and at the same time there is a uh a sophistication of intellectualism to to understand you know the world around them so the same shalansky that I cited before says he remembers going into his cousin's room and he saw astronomy charts so this is the type of home that who as we all know the mother is the Mainstay of the home it was true in in their in her home just as in our homes as as much as reik was reicon but he was a r he was busy you know and everything else she was with the uh with the children you know now now did she have a an easy life I think the answer obviously is not until she came to America in okay she made it out of Russia together with many other laab I believe in 1946 47 she was in a DP camp and then many went over to Paris the France yes sorry for interrupting just question take us back again Reit again where where was she born and raised as far as I remember she was born and raised in nikol as far I don't have a front to me but she was B she was born and raised in Russia which city I think nikol nikol is in what's today Russia or what's today Ukraine I I I don't remember I don't either ask the experts I Ukraine it's a Ukraine Ukraine yeah oh okay that velvo thank you for being here and giving us the answers what else anything else that's what I want one one more question quick Qui what yeah the re her her her family does she Trac back to any of the re not that I know of okay again it have to be you mean any right yeah yeah yeah yeah you know I as far as I know no but but you got to research you got to you know refresh my memory got to look up I haven't done that so I can't tell you I mean I think not but you know if you find it otherwise yeah yeah remember I said I don't think so okay anyway anyway let's go let's go continue so so um when when so now she had a very hard life meaning the situation uh there during the 1900s before there was the F first world war okay U they got married I believe in 1909 her and her husband her husband became the r in Yus love iner in 1909 I believe and that was a a good position a nice position but then came World War I 1914 their house turned into the aab house and I and I literally mean it such people like moer from Vila was was I don't know if he was in's house but he was in y for a year and he and he came there and he spoke to them and I've there are letters I put some of them in my book you know and it was a um a station for people um you know surviving the war needing a place to be a refugee place so and the the spoke about it himself that he remembers how his mother my recollection listening to hearing from the how his mother was so active in helping all the refugees yes that's what he said you know I think it was one his mother's yard side he said that giving her the credit for taking care of refugees not the re helped her you know he went out and helped and bought things so that was a in a way was a great time but at the same time was difficult time there you know ye were refugees and and then came the bul the the buic revolution you have to tell I don't know if to tell you what that meant you know the Uproar and all of that and they still stay there and they still did their work but it was difficult and we we see that oh then their their son their oldest son their get gets married in in Warsaw and she and her husband can't go and and can you imagine how they wanted to go it was just too difficult to travel at the time and we know how they stayed up all night and there Wasing in in their house and it was all night it was galic but nevertheless it's a mother she would like to be by her son and she can't and she can't be there so that that's that's painful and then came the situation in 1932 which many people don't know but reic was offered a job in ER and I believe even in Chicago again have to refresh my memory it didn't work out now why would he even accept the job if he has a Aila congregation with a community in yep Yak love obviously it was difficult I don't know an answer why but it's obvious no food and and everything else and makes it very very difficult and Stalin is closing everything down and it's communism and then she puts up with all of the threats that her husband went through and finally 1939 he's incarcerated he's taken away and she has to schlep and bring him food and and and this is not a Rosy life this is not called an an easy life and finally in 19 after then he passes away at a young age in 1944 he passes away and I think I told you in one of the the past that you know how devastated she was and she didn't go out she was like in a sense depressed I I don't know if she was depressed but it had that feeling she and went to her I spoke a lot about him in within the year how an incredible thing he did he went over to her and he says I have a ticket for you I want you to get on the the train and and leave and and you have to go and you know in general Russian I would say Russians Russian particular uh we not the Tye to take so he was shocked that here the situation was so was so difficult that she accepted a a a train ticket for and she left and that's how ultimately she got to Paris so in 1947 and and and by the way she got to the D DP Camp first and over there too the the the the lack of food and hunger and disease it was was terrible um I know someone who still alive who was asked by his father one of my asked his oldest son be drizen to fix the little wooden door of reab because they lived in the same area over there in in the DP Camp I mean you imagine the the poverty a woman who who none of her children with herba was in in in in America her her son um is was in and nebuch her son barl was killed by the Nazis in 1942 so so she's by herself and her husband dies in 1944 she's Al so it was a very trying time the re came to Paris and and there's pictures of it you've seen it and he brought her back to America and she writes in her memoirs by the way her memoirs I believe are in in book form and online and you owe it to yourself to read her memoirs if you want to have a bird's eye view what was going on with reic and herself and all of this you have to read her diary yourself okay anyway um she she comes uh to America and she writes there that those were the best years in her life CU she was together with her son for anyway so so she she what did she do in in in America what did she do in New York well pretty much she was already an older person um she was in her mid-60s and uh you know what she did was she enjoyed being around cran Heights even though it was very small in 47 I mean there was all kinds of yeden and the 50s and she passed away 60 years ago to this tomorrow TI kites leich leich in kites was very small but nevertheless there were many many from yeden so she got to see that and did visit her every single day and that was a very big pleasure for her she came to sh every time but she came to sh many time she spent time at her M the Reina you know for for for y and sad and things like that so from 1947 to 1964 she says basically those were the most peaceful and beautiful days of her of her life and and I know from from various accounts people who spoke to her there were certain people who visited her regularly some men some um of course women that um she she was a a very intelligent person a sophisticated person like the re you know I'm I'm not talking now about the as aad as a person an intellig an intelligent sophisticated person who doesn't speak about people and doesn't hoard and doesn't need to have more and more and greedi you know just a person who's thinking who's thoughtful who's calm who's forgiving and who and who recognizes the situation on the ground they're not a fool they know very well they lost a husband a young husband and they lost a son and the two sons her son AR passed away in 1954 52 in Liverpool now of course the Reba hid that from her but I my am I believe she knew I don't know if she knew right away but from 52 to 64 uh I I believe she figured it out and she knew that the re was hiding it for her from her so she never said anything okay so officially we we say she didn't know but uh I doubt it and um you know uh Thea had no children her youngest son barl was murdered and her son y AR you know had a child but you know I don't know how I don't know if she even ever saw the grandchildren maybe she maybe she yeah she probably saw if they came to America cuz they lived in ER Isel in England Isel and and you know wasn't uh it wasn't cic Jews walking around like her son and and her husband and uh from where she came from from real steep leich you know so you know you know how it is everyone is good and everyone's wonderful but this is what you used to yes m MAA what's with the balloons I don't know can't figure it out I don't know what's the balloons I'm sorry I thought you try to get my attention yeah go ahead go ahead my yeah from actually from speaking to my sons um especially my oldest son who who spent time in um my understanding is that the the grandaughter of or I should say the the daughter of the granddaughter of the of Reb from AR from U I don't know I don't know if she's still alive or not but I think that her children I believe are are or child in I I met her on a plan H okay I I don't know what I don't know you know I I think about these things I say Hashem you have a funny sense of humor this little K dolphin is sitting on a plane going to to rolls some sometime in last 10 20 years 20 years ago and who sits in front of me no sorry sorry take that back I didn't meet her I met her best friend and she communicated to me certain things so it was like I was talking to her I take that back I did not meet her but she is alive not his daughter uh wait a minute wait a minute his daughter yeah his daughter is alive she's alive she's uh yeah cuz he passed away very early he got he didn't get married till 1939 I don't I don't think she was born in in 1944 45 so she's uh I believe she's still alive in fact there was some pictures she was at in in the last year twoo at a wedding is there anything else you wanted to say about that or that's it no just no no just yeah yeah yeah so they she has children um I think that if not both or one is is is from you know modern mrai whatever keep usan all that and um that's the you know the little family Nas that RAB has um you know today I I just want to conclude that that um at her L when she passed away was chabas and it was shabas during the fa was shabas CH so the fa shba and um after the faan the went to his room the secretary say he did not shed a tear because he not allowed to on shabas but what a shabas of course and he and he I think he went into a a car a taxi took him to the hospital and he was he was there still during shabas in the afternoon late afternoon and he and he faced the window he looked out the window and um and then the next day was her her Lev believe believe there are clips of that online and um she's uh buried at the near the not far away opposite her is a unic rabbi unic you might have heard the name he got out from Russia using the passport I think of of one of her sons or of ble and he was like so he was officially her son that's how he got out so after his passing and he was very close to her he he was like an assistant in her older age he helped her so he his Tombstone faces is a walkway in the middle at the oil she's here and he is here like that so this is just brief a little bit about her you can tune in I don't know if you'll be up I'll be in Pittsburgh tomorrow night I bringing so maybe we'll share some more thoughts but I did want to give you first crack at it and um mayah tomorrow V tonight V TI B mayor scha that's her name and let her bring for cl is now the big yesu that number one all of this stop this this shooting and missiles and hacking and it's so I I my heart goes out for you I I couldn't sleep last night you know before I know about kabad it's just it's like what kind of piece is this how can you you can't walk and go places you don't know if something's going to land on your head or near you you know and we have to keep on ding to and demanding by AEM stop stop this it it's it's it's a hidden BR of greatness we know but we we we need some Cal now you know and uh will will have and through our good deeds and learning giving s especially very important give this week said and will we we'll take us out of this gas he'll bring Masia we'll all be together have a great day everyone tomorrow we'll learn withm and we'll learn some T is there a class for women tomorrow today no no byebye