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What did Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka say when Hendel Lieberman showed her a painting he drew of the Rebbe
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i reflect on two things that i want to
share with you
one is a statement
something that i've been told
the dove heiken he's a local politician
here in brooklyn he was
for many years and a very fine person
his his parents were survivors
and he stands up for yiddish and from
kite
in many ways and he and he says the way
he is he doesn't miss words he's not
scared
i give him a lot of credit because there
are a lot of cowards out there
he's not a coward
so he went by that as we all did to
console
the comfort that ever during shiva
and he said to the dead yo yo i'm
paraphrasing it's online you could see
the exact words but
something that affected a special wife
and
and that stopped him like cold right
right there and then ever said
yes she was
very much misunderstood or
underestimated i don't recall now the
exact wording but something to that
effect
and then he went on and i thought about
this from i'm still thinking about it
what did it ever mean to say that his
wife that ebbinson was misunderstood or
underestimated
i don't know and no one really knows
because then i didn't say however what
we could say is
that the rabbit since
was a very private person
and because of her privacy hasidim
didn't really know her
in fact most of us it was most of us
since the 1960s and on
70s for sure only saw her one time like
the aimer i believe 1980 at the window
of the library we could see her at the
window you could you know
you could just see and if you saw it
clearly but everyone said that's her
in the early years in the 50s 60s i
think she sometimes came to the car and
she picked up the rebel to go home
but but even that so what do you know
about a person so we know stories and
people have shared and then it's all
wonderful
but
we still
didn't know the person there ever
did we know that ever we but we knew him
more because if he brained and he spoke
in public as abuel said
the rapper revealed himself doing
fabregas he want
that's when he spoke to the public
but she didn't
so
this privacy led some people to
i'm not going to say discount her
but not feel that she's really part of
the entire movement of everything that's
happening and that's totally erroneous
and this is what i believe that ebba was
alluding to
that she specifically was the backbone
of the khabad labanche movement
from 1951 on and what we see today
because she was that amber's backbone
we also know her famous statement to nat
lewin during the um
forum case
where they deposed her and she he asked
her to who did these books belong
to uh to your father or to see them as
she said they belong
to hasidim because my father belonged to
hasidim
tremendous answer and truth
amis exactly right on
finally
i heard just this week this story that
blew my mind and it
goes along with what we're saying
in the early 1950s
sierreefkin who was married to the
motlifkin
asked her cousin
to handle lieberman handle foot of us
and mendel's older brother who changed
his name to lieberman
he was a hasidic artist the first
classic artist
so she asked him to paint uh to draw an
art to do a picture of the rebbe
and he said fine and that's the picture
where you see that everybody walking
like we're holding the sydney because
that's what they never did
and then
they uh
the pendle brought it
to
the rebbe's house and there but somehow
mushkil was there
and he spoke to her in russian
she loved speaking in russian that
handled new russian and
they also i think knew each other from
way back
and he shows it a picture of her husband
of the river
and he asks her so what do you think
so listen to what she answered she said
i heard this from family members
so
you drew a picture of your debut
of
his knit my man
but he is not my husband
what
and they had a relationship where you
know she could say it the way it is and
he could take it the way it is
she left he left the picture there
overnight
i assumed that she showed it to the
weapon the next day she gave back the
picture
what does this mean
it was the malt diner
you painted you drew your rabbit oh but
it is nick my mom but he's not my
husband
when i when i first heard it i was
startled
what do you mean
you could say it's not a nice picture
and again some want to interpret this
very simply it was a bad
drawing first of all it wasn't a bedroom
you could still see it it's out there
there's a book of his drawings you could
check it over there i believe
i believe
i think what she was saying is there is
the uh the rebbe
as every horse that takes that ever from
his perspective from his vision
his mind and heart decides who and what
the rabbi is to him
and she was saying to the pendulum to us
rabbi ladies and
the gentlemen is greater than what you
understand
and perceive
of him
it is nick my mind meaning that's not my
husband the rebel
that's you rabbit
but
i see him as a continuation of my father
that i believe it could happen today but
i shot my grandfather that obey him till
the altar ever
and he's something very different
that's my interpretation take it or
leave it
but the words themselves
are powerful and let's repeat them again
to us
however he is not my husband
now boys
when we have a york site of such a
tsardaekis that ebberson
a person who
was completely
dedicated to the mission of khabad
labach
to the mission of her parents and
ancestors and more most importantly to
her husband alan ebba
that itself
is it you don't need more you don't need
her to come out in public you don't need
her to make uh tea parties
you don't need it to raise funds
many things which other rabbitsons do in
today's
hasidic rebbe world and i'm not poo
pooing the classic show them that's
their style
color covert
but our rabbitson
was a lady a woman at sardacas
who
completely
was
subservient to her husband and didn't
want anything to get in the way of that
and she was supportive of him we know
that she didn't go to sleep till he came
home three four five in the morning six
in the morning she was up all night
waiting for him
because she had such terrible credits
for him and we also remember what she
told the
rabbi krinsky
the night of shamini
when the rabbi had a
heart attack initially by mayrev and
then he had a more most a more severe
heart attack about 3am and the doctors
wanted to take him to the hospital
to sedate him
and he didn't want to
go
and
just at that time when they decided
they're going to do that she came down
the steps and she asked robert krinsky
how is
that ever doing
and he said the doctors wanted to date
him take him to the hospital so she and
he asked
her her opinion
and for permission because she she she's
she gives the permission
so she said in all my life
i i never
saw him do anything
that out of that wasn't within his
control that he that he didn't he wasn't
exact with what he
thought
and uh if he says he doesn't want to go
to the hospital he should not go to the
hospital even though he's not well he's
very ill
and the doctors you know say he should
go
but he's in control of his destiny
she said that robert crinsky said
publicly it's online
that at that moment it was
between life and death
he didn't say those words i'm
paraphrasing
and she had the courage
because she knew her husband you
understand because she know that he's
this isn't just a painting
of your perception
of what he is and therefore he's not
well he's sick he might die take him to
the hospital no
she saw him as a hamster as a
continuation of the six other obey him
and she said if he as a tsatix says he
doesn't want to go that's the will of
god whatever happens is between god and
him and that's it
and he didn't go
my boys say
ladies gentlemen people friends
think about these things and you have
inspiration
to serve hashem better
and to learn siddhis and connect to the
rabbayam and our rebel and we should be
and also certified should merit the trio
and all eaten
immediately
and she rabbits
and joseph yitzhak
should be together with us
in jerusalem