Tribute Haddasa Carlebach Chabad Rabbi Zalman Schneerson Carlebach Shul

This is a tribute to Rabbitson Hadasa Caribbe. She passed away a few weeks ago. I interviewed her. I spoke with her and I share a few just a few words from my memory of that powerful interview. This must have been 10 years ago. She was sharp as a tat and witty and really personified kabad vaharosa in its purity. Now what do I mean? She was married to Rabelim Carlabach who was the brother of the famous singer Schllay Carlbach. Elaim learned left Lakewood and came to Kabad in 1944 and he learned in the yeshiva till 1949 I believe when he married had a carabah. She was the daughter of the cousin of the Reb Zman Zman Zen is a personality for himself. I understand that his granddaughter Rabbitson Citroen who I know is coming out with a major work a major book on Abal Masher's life accomplishments which is too too much to say in in in a few minutes here but be that as it may and he did tremendous amounts saved families saved children helped people my father himself got to American in the merit of Mishnerson who got him a visa um from from America to come to c to come from France where he was after he got there from ro to come to America but that's for another time Carlbach was the engine and the fire behind the carbaku on 79th street in the upper west side Carlbach was traveling around the quot Rabelim her husband was a scholar a writer so yes both of them shared the the rabinet of the shul the shul was actually their father shul originally carbach but after passed away and after her husband passed away she took the the the reigns and she led the shul not by being the rabbi because That's not not what she did. But she appointed her uh grandson Rab Nafli Sitron who I know Yeshiva is younger but I know him. I saw him grow up and he's a fine Talm and a great rabbi and uh but she was the real energy behind it as uh recently there have been interviews with her online and elsewhere and uh you hear from the people how Hadasa Carlbach was was the engine of that shul in shul when you know when she was there and and out of sh when she went to visit people from the shul in hospitals or here or there at sim she came unannounced but she was really a schnaren. I I I want to uh I want to really focus on this. She was a real schnaren. A schneerson is smite is smart, sharp, witty, stubborn and accomplishes. She carried that with her with pride. She didn't I don't mean pride arrogance. I I didn't sense pride in her. I I I sensed in her the shares dynasty when I interviewed when I was writing my book, the real schlimmer, which if you haven't read it, you should read it. You you'll find out some very interesting things. But be that as it may, Hadasa Carlson Carl Bach showed me documents, gave me insight, spoke to me about things that most people don't know about, and I found her to be to be aid or for a woman we say, but not aid of, you know, run-of-the-mill another. She was the Reb's cousin, second cousin, third cousin, whatever it she had a relationship with the Rebbitson Mushka that she told me about. She knew what to say and she knew what not to say. And she knew when to say it and she knew when not to say it. Oh, about everything. It's easy to to look at a person after their life you live 99 almost 100 years a few months short of a 100 years several months short of a 100 years person lives that long they're born in Russia and they come to to France and then they come to America I think in 1948 or so and they're here from 1948 to 2026 that's so long and you look at their accomplishments and you look at their record and you see that she was an outstanding Jew, an an outstanding leader. the leadership qualities of her father Abzal Ner she had she was his right-hand man even though he had two children and beer her brother and herself but she seems to me maybe I'm wrong but I believe that she was her father's right-hand man man person I mean her brother wasn't yeshiva you know it's a different she was she was with him a lot more a lot more throughout her life and she picked up the nuances the details the style the approach and I assume the context had big contacts you you know it's it's no question about it he was very plugged in and very com and very connected to the right people at the right, you know, echelons, upper echelons both in in in in Russia and particularly in Paris and even here in America in the various things that he did and he started the yeshiva Yehuda. I believe he started that was a vocational school and different things that he did and Hadasa took that and channeled it into the Carl Baksh and the Carlbach uh you could say genre of people in which they weren't kabadnik they weren't laburers they weren't and she was able through her smarts to filter filter it through the various people, not only the rabbis, her her uncle, her her husband, her grandson, but also through pre, you know, the the presidents of the shul. Um, I forget the the previous president. I met him. He lives in in Miami now. I spoke to him and he lorded the dasa tremendously. So what I see is and then there's green the the the caner the kaz and the belam who also spoke so highly of adasa. I see that not only was she powerful and impactful on the leadership, the the rabbis, the three rabbis, but also um the lay leadership, which is very important because without leadership, as great of a leader as you are, if you don't have the the the leaders, the lay leaders to support support support the organization in financially and practically and shleing chairs and organizing events etc etc it falls apart and Adasa kept it all together so much has been said on these other interviews I don't need to repeat it but I could just tell you from spending that hour to two at her house during the interview at 706 Eastern Parkway about 10 years ago 11 years ago So I think it was 2015 2000 it wasn't 2016 when I was I came out with my book on schlam dra I interviewed her because certain things I needed to get and I didn't have it clear and he and she gave me she gave me the right the right picture she didn't divulge much you know but what she did divulge and she gave me the background of the two brothers and karak and how they were brought into kabad and other things that we discussed. It was uh an eye openener and it was very worthwhile. So may her soul have I don't know if she had a second name bringing Mashiach and her children grandchildren and great grandchildren some of which I know should continue in her ways and to to do more and more to to bring the Schneersen dynasty and everything that it represents for to the to us today. And we'll we'll definitely see her with her husband with our with her father all and all the together. Amen. Amen.