Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka: Special phone, private, modest, aristocratic, elegant & intelligent - RCD

shom today is the yite of the this was the wife of the Reb and she passed away bat 1988 so I'd like to share a few things that I heard that maybe the the people are not so familiar with and then talk for a few minutes about her one of the people that uh we don't hear as often in association with RAB Muska is the latei Z gari was a person like his predecessors the Gadis they were completely and totally dedicated to theim both with all three with their soul with their body and with their money and someone told me that in the early in the 1960s he would frequent House of rabig gari for various reasons and he noticed uh a separate phone I think he said it was a red phone I'm not sure if it was red but he in addition to the house phone there was a separate phone and when that phone rang no one would pick it up and it was in his study I believe and that later he he was told that phone was exclusively a phone for theab mus that she had his number and he had her number and whenever she needed something she would pick up the phone and call the rabbit kushka and this explains many things that we did hear about later in the Years how he cared for her health and not only cared for her health he was I believe like in charge of her health understandably what the guidance and permission and everything else and this is not about about the Muska was a very private person cut it this way say it this way say it that way she was a very private person the only time that I saw the ABM was in 1980 at the L parade through the window in the library the second floor looking down at the parade and this was true for most of my friends or all my friends friends in the early years in the 60 50s and 60s she was seen a little more because she would come to visit her uh sister and you know and there were times she took the rebba home the reiton was a very educated and cultured person in one of the uh magazines that kabad put out over the years I read that she would get two newspapers each day the which is a Russian newspaper and another newspaper a French newspaper she enjoyed a reading and she enjoyed speaking Russian uh she there was a cook at her name was Mrs civen I believe and she could speak with the Ritson for two three hours in Russian almost daily everyone has heard about the elegance and about her and about things like that the question that one of my daughters asked me actually today is was the rabbitson learned in Tyra the truth is I don't know and I asked my good friends they also don't know but that doesn't make her not a reiton even if you assume that she wasn't very well-versed in TI which I not at all saying she was I don't know I never heard it I never heard about it I didn't read anything about it and I actually asked those people that know facts that let me know I would really appreciate it but greater than her learning was her commitment to yeden and to to the community and to her husband and this we saw both when the rebba had his heart attack in 19 mineras and all the stories about that and we saw it again with the swm case later in the 80s people ask why didn't she come to 770 for daving for fabrin well she had an older sister who she didn't want to make uncomfortable because her you know her husband was theba and her older sister's husband was rash and as much as he was uh he had a position and he was in charge of the isas nevertheless that was the re and I believe the RAB shinel says this in his book this is not myish my novelty so her sensitivity because of her sensitivity she didn't want to rub the eyes out of her sister her older sister another thing is she wanted she was very tenu very modest imagine if she came to seven 70 and people would make aisles for her and space for her and Lord her and praise her and she hated that that was the furthest thing from her as a Jewish woman as a daughter of the and as the rebit of the we see from her lifestyle from what we know here in America and so it's been told over stories in in when she was in Russia and in Berlin and in Poland but primarily here in the United States that her her looking out for others helping him in various ways was a primary aspect of her rabbits and kite okay and because she didn't want to be in the Limelight therefore she was unse seen unheard of that was her Mahala her approach on a day like today when we reminisce and we think about what she did and what she does for for us theic fraternity of laich of kabad laich of anash it's it's important to understand that a rabbit sin doesn't mean only someone who is very active with people meeting them and blessing them and encountering them and you have such rebon I I understand the B abbon is that way today's Bell abson and the late reiton of the title bomb I understand was very active even after his passing but and even in our own history let's let's say re the grandmother of the was also very active in with the the kitchen and raising funds and and clothing b as it's been all recorded much has been recorded this rabbitson had a different style and one needs to understand that this doesn't detract at all and the re is the one who put it best out of all the things I heard by Shiva you know the the recordings and when Dove hin Dove hin who was a an assemblyman here when he passed the Reb to cons come for and console the re he said it's online I don't remember the exact words but the idea he said I'm sorry to hear about your loss she was a special person and you know theba said people underestimated her when I heard those words like a a knife went into my heart the re is saying about his wife that she was underestimated and I and I was thinking about it I'm still thinking about it what does this mean this means that because people have questions was she learned why wasn't she seen and all these issues it tends to lead us to a position where ah she you know she wasab she was you know a come along a sing along you know uh that said about her people underestimated him her and that said it with with pain if you listen to that clip he said it with a with a with a with um you know a pain like you know like it's AAL it's that they underestimated so what does that tell you that she was was a very big person that she was a very great person that she was a personality of AIT for for me and I hope for all of you listening that's enough for for the Reb to say about his wife people underestimated her that tells you everything so it's and let's take things we could learn from the rabbitson her modesty her dedication her commitment to and really only because of her when she told the the lawyers when she was questioned that my father and and all of his belongings belong to she sealed the case and it's so true what she said this isn't a private Enterprise this belongs to God this belongs to anash this belongs to there's a greater wholesome truth over here so they should help that she should be amongst those that will rise together with her dear husband our coming