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okay good evening welcome to this uh
tribute
to an extraordinary unique holy woman
that ever since then asada the fifth
rabbit son of khabad
her yard site is coming up this shop is
yud gimmel 13th day of the month of
shwat and um
I felt it was the right thing to speak
about her and her amazing life
I'll tell you a little bit about how I
came to be fascinated with that I would
say shut down Assad it was actually
exactly seven years ago
I was reminded actually this Shabbos
this past Shabbos I was in 770 the
Shabbos before your Trot that was in 770
and Ibaka came over to me and said when
he was a much younger bucker he was in
London Yeshiva and he remembers the
fabrangin that I came and he remembers
that it was schnas hakkil okay
every seven years there's a year of
gathering the year after the the
sabbatical year and uh so this year is a
is a hockey year so he says I remember
it was seven years ago because when you
came to London Yeshiva was also a
hakalea
surprised you remember if I bring them
from seven years ago
so he started reminding me and I said oh
yes that wasn't important for bringing
to me not because of anything I said but
because of what the mashpia rabbi Mendel
Gordon said in uh London Yeshiva there
in uh
Goldust green Kingsley way so
Rabbi Gordon actually was speaking about
how
there's a there's a hayam yam
it talks about what to do how to observe
a yard site if the day of burial in the
day of passing are not the same day
and many people don't realize the reason
that the rabbi who compiled the hayami
made that the gaming for that day is
because that day in that year the gaming
was compiled for the year tuftshin
gimmel 1943 which is exactly 80 years
ago
that year
was the first yard site of the rabbits
in stanasata whose day of passing and
whose day of burial were not the same
day
and he told the fascinating fascinating
story behind that why that happened has
to do with the Friedrich being away
being out of town at the time and that's
a whole fascinating story which we're
going to tell tonight we're going to
tell that story
but Rabbi Gordon told that story now a
lot of what he told me or told all of us
at the fabregan came from his memories
that he had heard from an older hasid
a who has since passed away Rabbi David
Edelman who went on slick us to
Springfield Massachusetts
way back in the 40s you weren't already
um he was sent by the Freedom credit but
he was there in 1942 when the Davidson
stanisara passed away and he uh
remembered many of the details so that's
how I began my fascination with this
story and I began to look more and more
into it and everything I found at every
turn was just more and more enthralling
and captivating and it really amazed me
how little is known in general by even
people who
follow Chabad or even people who
identify as part of Chabad like how many
people in Chabad know for instance even
that shab the fifth of Chabad that his
wife his rabbits and lived in New York
I don't know if everybody even knows
that
or how many people know that
she is laid to rest just a few feet away
from the aisle
how many people pass by that caver
constantly and they they don't know that
the rabbit is
right there in fact how many people know
that she was the very first laborator
that was laid to rest in that Cemetery
at all and in fact because she's there
that's how the oil came to be where the
oil is today the fact that Cambria
Heights became a place out of all the
places in the world where tens of
thousands of of people come to pour out
their hearts and to pray year after year
that's because originally she was the
one who was laid to rest there and that
started
that that should become the place and
eventually her son the Frederica was
laid to rest there and then after
touching and dial it after gimotamus
that's where the river's oil is so how
many people even know those basic things
that's why I felt like in honor of her
upcoming yard site the Shabbos you'd
give him a shot we're going to talk
about her her life
and just hopefully have a new
appreciation of this incredible tadakis
okay so let's start with the beginning
birth
rabbits in stanisad was born in
tafreshkov in 18
60.
and uh she was born in the town of
Lubavitch
now you're gonna say of course she was
born in about no not of course because
let me explain to you she didn't grow up
in Lubavitch she was born in Lubavitch
when her parents were visiting lavavitch
I should tell you who her parents were
her father
was
one of the seven sons of the tamak
and her mother was named Hannah now who
was Hannah Hannah was her maiden name
was torski she was from the chernobyla
dynasty her name's arturski from the
town of tavaria
um
her father was Reb yankiv Israel
who was a chernobyla rabbit from the
chernobyla dynasty specifically in the
town in Ukraine called chakas
and he was married
to the daughter of the military that is
not the same famous Vera lay who is the
daughter of the altered who sacrificed
herself to save her father's life but
this is the
daughter of the Midland who obviously
was named after the middle of his sister
so the middle of this
married atorski from the chernobyla
dynasty
and
and he in turn had a daughter Hannah who
married
who was the son of the tamaktanic okay
so
Robinson's parents lived in chicas they
lived by
the their uh by
nav's father-in-law
and they were visiting Lubavitch to
visit
and that's when the Robinson was born
she was born in lavage
okay they went back to Chicago that's
where she was raised now on another
visit when she was five years old
she was standing next to her first
cousin
whose name was shalom
and he was the same age they were both
five years old
Angel was the son of the seventh the
youngest son of The tamak sadik Rao
shmuel who eventually became
so little stanisara the daughter of
ravier and little Sean daiber the son of
RAF shmuel are standing next to each
other and there zaida their grandfather
the tamaktadek who was rabbit that time
looks at the two and says
now people speak like that a lot they
make cute comments about cute little
kids because
and nothing he said
was off the cuff
so immediately the parents understood
that this was a real deal and they got
together and they wrote up an engagement
that in 10 years this couple will be
married so there were five at the time
they would be married at 15 that was not
an unusual that was not an unusual age
to be married at the time
I'm talking about the in the 1860s 1870s
so uh 10 years from France forth they
will be married and the the location of
the continent will be where
would any good believing Jew
write for the location for any event
that's going to happen in 10 years
of course
so they wrote it up that the castle is
going to be in yerushalayim in 10 years
unfortunately mashiach did not come so
then there was a whole discussion where
are they going to have the consonant
step
foreign wanted very strongly that the
khasana should be in Lubavitch in the
town of the Revis
the kala's father of yasuf Yitzhak at
this point he was no longer living in
chakas he'd become a rabbit of his own
this is in the in during those 10 years
the Tamar said they had passed away
already
and the Navies became a rabbi in his own
right in the town of avruch
so they were living in vrich now and he
wanted that the Hassan should be in Avro
so
there was back and forth in the end they
agreed fine we'll make the khasana of
roach but there was a condition
told his son the river marriage did not
go
because of healthy did not go to the
casino but before his son left for the
castle he told him outside of Lubavitch
you do not wear stimul
that was a condition what was the
meaning of that that's that's Up For
Debate but that was the instruction
you wouldn't wear the style outside of
labash the famous picture you see of the
rabbit shab was taken in our stuff after
he left Lubavitch so he's obviously not
wearing a slime only didn't wear slime
outside of Lubavitch there's a painting
of him wearing stimul because that's an
artist's rendering and he did wear his
diamond in fact in labavage but not
outside
so the consonant was supposed to be out
of Shabbos there was a whole debacle
that happened when
the yes
his attendant saw it took it right off
because
and it was a whole
uh conflict about it and they almost
called off the khasana
and it was Robinson who said we're not
calling this thing off the zaide meaning
the tamaktadek is the one who made the
it's going through and therefore it went
through and on Sunday they got married
okay
after the khasana they moved to
Lubavitch so the khasana was in but then
they lived in labavage
it's interesting you know the the
repetition was it was it was akalo she
was a married woman but she was also she
was a girl she was 15.
she comes to Lubavitch and she notices
all the other girls her age are much
taller than her
apparently she was not very tall
and she felt bad about it and she
actually told her father-in-law she told
she feels bad that she's so much shorter
than the the labovacha girls you know
where she came from I guess she wasn't
that much shorter than everyone else and
now she comes to Lubavitch and she sees
all these tall girls and
felt kind of verb less than
said to her
short trees give the best fruit
to which of course he he was referring
to offspring he said don't worry you're
going to have very good Offspring now we
all know
her Offspring was
her son
the Friedrich rabbit
but that's not so simple that's not so
simple either
uh
I don't know how many miscarriages she
had but she had a very difficult time
carrying a baby to term uh
she lost pregnancies and there were
fertility issues
and
it was four years since the hassano she
hadn't been able to uh give birth
and actually it was simple
and they made Mr baddox for the women
and I guess she wanted her name to be
mentioned in a mission because of the
fertility issues but for whatever reason
her name was omitted
and she felt very bad
that didn't mention her in the
mishabaddocks and she said she went off
to her own room and she was crying
after the Kiddush I don't know if this
means the night or the day because I
said to make a kiddish some cluster
night as well but she went off uh to her
room to cry and she cried herself to
sleep
and while she slept she had a dream
she saw a man come to her and say to her
you're going to have a child this year
but there are two conditions the first
condition is you can't tell anybody
about this the second is you have to
give 18 rubles to tsudaka from your own
money
so she she agreed to that he went away
the man in the dream went away but then
he came right back with two other men
and he repeated it he said two
conditions you can't tell anyone about
this and you have to give 18 rubles to
DACA from your own money you're gonna
have a child this year and then the
other two men in the dream agreed with
what the first man had said and then she
woke up
she went to her husband and she told him
the dream which was interesting that
apparently that's not called telling
anybody
wife tells her husband
so he said fine we're going to call my
father so they told which again it's not
called telling anyone can tell your
spouse you can tell your debit right
okay
so they told him
was very interested in this and he asked
that evidence to explain again what was
the dream
she told him every detail and he was
very serious and he said the man that
came to you in the dream was was my
father who had since passed away
and the other two men were my
grandfather the mitlin my great
grandfather of the altered
okay
so SIM card status is in touche
one more month after that is Heisman
kishliv Tavis schwatt other I don't know
if it was an ibr if there were two
others that year
um
Nissan it could be looked up so I'm
going to look it up and let me know
Nissan ear 7 Thomas
so that's nine months if it was a leap
year then it was 10 months you would
base tamosphere was born we all know the
feeder Club is when he was released from
imprisonment
was the 12th day of the Hebrew month of
Thomas that was his birthday as well he
was born out of 12th of Thomas tougher
18.
80.
so and and another episode was 20 at
that time married at 15 had her first
and only
pregnancy which she carried the term uh
five years later
she named her son after her father who
had since passed away we mentioned her
father was
she named her
son yes if you took
now
I want to tell you a little bit more
about 116.
um from the time that she arrived in
Lubavitch
she was instrumental in preserving
hasidus she had a very good handwriting
you have to remember in the days before
copy machines and printing presses and
Laser Printers
handwriting was absolutely vital in the
preservation of of cities
I mean we all know uh any of us who know
a little bit about modern labavage
history about the great Mercedes snafish
that the freedom could have had with the
southern the manuscripts he had
boxes and boxes of these manuscripts
which he
brought with him from place to place as
as he was in Exile and took great pains
to bring to America and but that's the
basis of the labavitcher library today
many of these manuscripts were written
by the rabbits in stanisara
she would write down my modem that were
said by her father-in-law
she did this for her husband that I
better shop later these manuscripts were
preserved by
photograph you should know also that
when she became rabbitsun after uh the
rabbit Asha became rabbit which was not
immediately after the passing of her
father-in-law that was should know that
shab was not the oldest brother and
there was some discussion about who
would be the successor but after that
became
was that abidson
um I think most people know that the
crowning the Crown Jewel let's say of
the Rebecca's nasias the The Innovation
at least let's call it that was a
totally new thing was time Yeshiva
an official established program an
institution for the study of Torah where
they would study both aspects of Toyota
negla and Mr as an official part of the
curriculum and um of course people were
learning considers for Generations since
about so why was Tim catamim what was
novel about it well one thing that was
novel about it was a kitchen you take
that for granted but
people were always coming to Lubavitch
to sit and learn and to soak in
us and that was just that was always
done but to have a Yeshiva a Yeshiva
means a structure and part of a
structure means there's a kitchen
there's food in fact you know
the official date of when it was founded
is the 15th of ello but the first days
of classes were the 18th of Kyle so what
did they do for three days so the
absolutely used to say and when he would
visit the Yeshiva Lord he would go
straight to the kitchen he wouldn't
necessarily stop in the best matters to
learn but he would always stop in the
kitchen to have have a bite he would say
what do you think the anniversary is if
they didn't start learning until three
days later what then what's why is the
anniversary uh from before they started
learning what happened when what what do
you call it a printed stationary what no
they opened the kitchen so the kitchen
opening that's template to me so when I
come to team make sure to stop in the
kitchen Okay so
the kitchen of Tim came to me was the
rabbit
that was a whole question what are we
going to feed they were there there was
poverty they didn't have food
so they needed to know there was going
to be a kitchen in order to start the
Yeshiva shop wanted to start the Yeshiva
but where's where's the food gonna come
from the rabbitfish dinosaur is the one
who said what we eat meaning
that's what the baham are going to eat
and she saw to it that was the reality
she saw to it that they would have food
in fact later as Tim come to me expanded
uh 10 continent was for older bahram but
then they were younger baham who came
and um
in fact one of those younger Bakr who
came to learn in labavich
was a a Boy by the name of Shema Aaron
kazanovski and we're going to talk about
him later on
um
because he figures prominently into the
story of it ever since uh
passing
he was accosted in America we're going
to speak about him okay
and this whole story how he even got
admitted because they didn't want to
accept him and he actually his mother
brought him and she went to rabbits in
Rifka ever since Donald's mother-in-law
and uh They begged episode
at any rate
these boys these younger boys who were
not even entertainment they were younger
how did they they used to eat something
called the rabbitsen soup
Robinson
made soup for these boys that's how they
lived
so when you think of him
should remember the temp contamin means
not just people who are afraid to sit
and learn on their own it means there's
a structure there's a Yeshiva there's a
kitchen
foreign okay
um
there was a point where the debita
schaab's health was very very poor I
mean his health was poor for many years
but at one point the doctors told him he
had a few months to live
uh fiducaba was like 17 years old at the
time and the rabbit shab said okay I'm
going to get to thrall to live for my
you know as long as I've got left
and I said I'm leaving our son in charge
he's a new rabbit I'm I'm going and uh
actually convinced him
to stay not to go and actually he lived
and he lived for many more years after
that the famous country is actually his
ethical will that he wrote to his wife
about how to educate their only child
um after he would pass because he
believed he was passing very soon
and there is incredible instructions
over there about
about parenting
um
later on of course they had to leave
Lubavitch because of World War One and
the Russian Communist Revolution the
Bolsheviks the fighting it wasn't safe
anymore
now even in that
assata figured prominently uh that it
was not safe so the rabbi shab said that
the family should leave they should
leave Lubavitch and he would stay in
Lubavitch an episode of sort of
outwitted him
she knew that if she would tell him to
leave he wasn't going to leave Lubavitch
so she said that's fine
um
that ABBA can stay meaning her husband
that I better shop but we're not
splitting up the family the family's
staying in one place so wherever the dev
is staying that's where the family's
staying once the de Bishop heard that he
wasn't gonna it wasn't safe in the
language anymore it's too much fighting
and uh so when you hear that that
wherever he's going to be the family's
gonna be he said fine we're leaving and
that's how they ended up in her stuff
she went with him
she left Lubavitch should understand she
was the last sitting rabbitsen in
Lubavitch if you think about Lubavitch
the actual town of Lubavitch the last of
Ebbets and
who was actually sitting as rabbitsen as
leading as Robinson in the town of
Lubavitch was it ever since dinosaur
okay and all of the the Exiles of
Lubavitch
I just spoke about 10 Exiles all of the
Exiles she was there literally until the
current location of Lubavitch in Crown
Heights Brooklyn she went on each step
of the way
so she left the Bible she went to her
stuff
um
After Base nursing after the rabbit
shops passing
she was constantly with her son
afraid of krabbe who then assumed
leadership
um she went with him after a stop to
Leningrad to to where he relocated
um she was involved
I mean I'll tell you
that period was the was the stalinist
period it was a very very dark day there
was one fabrangin towards the very end
before the arrest when eventually
led to the freedom of having to leave
the Soviet Union
was speaking very
bluntly
and there were spies at the fabrina
everyone knew there were spies and like
Sid them were terrified
they didn't know what to do they
actually went to the devastation and
They begged her get your son just please
please to stop to make that ever stop
and and she said you know you know there
are spies he says I have to do what I
have to do but she was the only one who
could speak to I'll tell you also I
don't know if it happened in
but somebody wants came to the feeder
grabber and had a message from two
people who each one had a different
problem they wanted a bracha
and one had a family issue one had a
money problem and this the schlier who
told the Freda Frederick started bawling
it's just broke down in tears and
afterwards this closet remarked to that
ever since he said you know the guys who
told me about their own problems didn't
cry as much as your son when he heard
the problems
foreign no
every time I come into his room after
you hear this the floor is wet with
tears
so um
she was with him
I'll tell you something also
um when they came to arrest him she was
there and I feel like I would write
something very remarkable the the two
the two communist agents who came to
arrest him were Jews
Lilith and and nachmanson and they
actually both came from
sedition families
and many people were confused during
that time and unfortunately took the
wrong
path and um
they became tormentors of their own
people
so they came in the middle of the night
to arrest the Federal
um it's interesting
sort of woke up it was the middle of the
night she came out
and when she came out she said what's
going on here
she realized they were going to arrest
her son
and she started crying
and she said take me why are you doing
this to my son he does nothing but live
for others he does nothing but live for
others take me she wasn't joking then
she understood who she was talking to
these were heartless Communists they
would take her they would take him they
would take everyone don't joke around
with him she said take me don't take my
son
and the feed equipment rights actually
at that moment he said that was the one
moment he saw Humanity in nachmanson
he said nachmanson who was such a just a
we have no words to describe the the
cruelty of the capacity that he filled
for the Communists
but at that moment he said when Robinson
sort of came out and she was pleading
for her son
Friedrich over writes he says that was
the moment I saw some Humanity
and he said to me I'm sorry I didn't
mean to wake your mother
please go quiet her calm her down
and that was and after that he went back
to his cruelty
obviously the photographer did not stay
in the Soviet Union had to leave we all
know that
he went to Riga she went with Robin was
there at every at every juncture
uh after Riga she went with him to
Poland arshad fotsky
um the baham in Temple
regularly interacted with
with 30 she was a she was a fixture
there she was just like in tempement
labavich she was part of the Yeshiva so
not thoughts she was part of the Yeshiva
there are many memories that Malcolm
have of interacting with her and her
taking an interest in their studies and
their their their welfare
um
she was there right until when the Nazis
invaded Poland and there was the the
airstrikes and we we know the stories of
the the bombing of Warsaw she was there
in fact
that's where she stayed in Warsaw during
the bombing and the the planes are
coming with the bombs they were very
scared that she was in a in a dangerous
house and they wanted to move her to
another house that was in another area
in town that was supposed to be farther
from where the bombs were going to fall
and the cinema were saying let's let's
go
sort of said
no no I'm not leaving this house there's
a safer Toyota in this house so this
this is a good place to be this is a
safe place this is a safer Toyota in
this house
and she didn't leave
and the bombing came
and the bombing actually bombed the
house that they wanted to move her to
and the house that she insisted was safe
because it had a safer Toyota was
Untouched by the bomb
okay
after the feedback left Poland came to
America tests other tough Shin spring of
1940. she was with him when he arrived
she was with him
ah
when 770 was purchased and the freedom
moved in she was with him she had a room
she had an apartment on the second floor
of 770. it's right next to the Frida
Carrabbas the room where he took
personal audience
that was in stanisota has an apartment
next door to that on the second floor of
770.
um
I'm gonna talk now about
the events leading up to her passing
base 1942 okay
so she was only here for a couple of
years she was in New York for a couple
years
in 1942
the Frida krabe visited
Chicago
now this this is there were two visits
to Chicago We're not talking about when
the Philadelphia visited Chicago earlier
when he was visiting America I'm talking
about after the federal government
already moved to America in the 40s
and he visited Chicago 1942.
and the plan was that he was supposed to
be there for
two weeks he arrived Zion Schott the
seventh day of shot he was supposed to
be there for two weeks there were there
was a major fundraising dinner for the
Yeshiva
two Shabbos programs for two weeks a lot
of yahida's private audiences we're
going to speak about that in a moment
and and a lot of other events okay
now the federal government himself was
not in the best of health
so the trip was difficult on him
was also not in the best of health
however she was relatively stable or
else the Freedom cover would never have
made the trip he would would never have
left
his his mother behind
um so she was she seemed to be okay
and in fact until the moment of her
passing she was walking talking diving
we're going to talk about that
um
so the Frederick gets to Chicago he's
supposed to be there for two weeks
foreign
she passes away now
let me go back to New York
to Crown Heights what's happening
I was in Chicago
did not appear to be unstable in her
health
in fact
she was
she remarked to somebody
hint
Dartmouth
today is shabashiro today you have to
dive in in a whole new way after diving
something special
and by the way she was always very
particular davening three times a day
her whole life
so she goes to dive in the Shabbos
davening
and she gets to the prayer called
nishmas nishmas kolkai
she got the niche masks
and she asks for water
someone goes to bring her water
before they could bring her the water
she'd passed away
later on
people put two and two together they
realized how similar her passing was to
her mother-in-law
rabbits and rivka's passing in Lubavitch
was also diving and she asked for water
and before they could bring her the
water her Holy Soul left her
and ever since stanisado was actually
there and she said words the effect I
believe that
if only I would have such a
Amisa
and indeed she did
similar to the way that her
mother-in-law Evanston riska passed away
okay let's go back to Chicago
was not in good health they were they
found out right after Shabbos they
didn't even know if they should tell him
they decided they should tell him but
then they didn't know how to tell
they figured out a way to tell him they
told him
and he was crying a lot he was crying a
lot
he didn't say this right then he said it
later
but I just want to tell you something
that he said about his mother's passing
he said
that in general it's a sad thing when a
Jew passes away
especially if it's a relative
and of course a mother
and especially a mother of an only child
but the reason why I'm really crying
is because she didn't get to live to see
the complete Redemption
this troubled free to grab it
and his mother
who worked so hard to bring the
Redemption did not get to live to see
the Redemption
I said Frederick has mentioned that
later I'm not sure at what point but
okay matsushabis shabashira in Chicago
is
understandably
uh grief stricken it's a holoca term for
that it's called an einen raw grief
and here's the incomprehensible part of
the story
people had yes scheduled
personal audience
they didn't want to lose their
opportunity they started to beg the
organizers of the trip
that they should ask the Freedom Credit
not to go back to New York right away
they should stay and have you hear this
with all the people who had
signed up
now to me it's unfathomable how they
even thought that the freedom would have
the presence of mind to listen to listen
to that
and we also I guess have to understand
that travel wasn't like like it is today
for many of these people was their only
opportunity was a once in a lifetime
chats but they they ask
that the photographer should be asked if
he would be willing to stay and after he
finishes all of the Year this then he'll
go back
so they went they asked David if he's
willing to do this
and what the video answered is
absolutely
I I don't have words
I asked the video
in his state of Rogue Reef
if he will stop he will remain and and
give your head this grant you hear this
to everyone who
who signed up for it
so
he answered
since my father's passing since base
Nissan when my father did a better job
passed and I assumed leadership
I have no personal opinion about myself
I don't have a say it's not not my call
to make
video but said
is what I will do
and they they got three percent abundant
paskin that the federal government
should remain and give to give you hit
us which he did
that matashabas as well as Sunday he
gave you hithers
afterwards he got on the train it was a
train it was not a plane and he went
back
did not reach New York until Monday
foreign
the short trees give good fruit the best
fruit
I don't know if there's any meaning to
that it's just something that I thought
of
but let's let's slow down here
let's talk about what's happening back
in Brooklyn let's go back to Brooklyn
the rabbit had arrived our rabbit
in 1941.
7 summer 41. so that was already there
and rabbit from day one was
managing everything
including this
okay let me explain
um
there was a labavator
helca labavitcher section in a cemetery
in Staten Island
I mean I think since the 1860s they
couldn't have in New York you couldn't
have cemeteries in Manhattan so they
were all in the boroughs
um so the cemetery was in Staten Island
it was called Bayside Acacia Cemetery
and all the laboratory who a few that
were here in America from the times
before the Frida Carrabba that's where
they were buried we had Musa who came to
America already in the times of the
rabbit even even earlier so that's where
they were all buried
in that time in the 40s
there was no way to get to Staten Island
except a boat you'd have to take a boat
Staten Island Ferry
there was no way that an Abbott was
going to allow that his rep the federal
government should be in a position where
to visit his mother's caver he should
have to get on a boat
so that Abbott told
because
we spoke about earlier who's one of
those boys in Lubavitch who ate from the
rabbits in soup now he came to America
before the freedom rabbit he was a
reverend Bensonhurst and an Oscar and a
very important activist in establishing
Lubavitch in America he spoke English
I'm very he was very well connected
so the Republic
that we're going to find another place
not Staten Island no not there has to be
somewhere you can drive from
from 770.
and so they found old Montefiore
Cemetery
rabbits and stanisado was the first
laborator laid to rest in Old not very
Cemetery now after she was laid to rest
there you can see matsavis there they're
not even far from hers
um from years after her from after like
from after touching base there's a
there's a cunan just a few feet from her
from it was very there tough shin gimmel
and then there are others so that became
the the new place
but um
think about this
because it was buried there in Old
Montefiore Cemetery
in tuition base 1942. that became where
her son where the feedback about
where his oil would be in touch
in 1950 which of course is why after in
1994 after gamotamus that's where that I
was oil is so if you think about all the
people who go to the oil
all the people from all over the world
who go and they pour out their hearts to
diving at the oil in in this this random
neighborhood in Queens how did that
happen because of representation being
laid to rest there that that's that's
that's how the story started
and it's interesting that the devil was
the one who made sure that they should
start a new section so in some ways that
ever himself chose where his Isle would
be
but uh let's talk more about
the Practical preparations
of course there was a Tara
according to all of the the laws and
customs
but then there was something
unusual
um
foreign
now
uh yossi Sternberg actually sent me a a
recording of an uh interview
not sure from what year but
many decades ago but it's a very clear
recording of Rabbi kazanovski speaking
and he speaks very quickly speaking in
Yiddish but he speaks very clearly very
easy to understand if you understand
Yiddish and
um
he's talking about his memories of what
happened
since dinosaur is passing
and so he says gave him an envelope a
green envelope a Russian envelope
I don't know what means maybe Russian
stationery or something I'm not sure but
uh
Russian envelope a green envelope
and the rabbit told him that this is
from
saying that this should be done that
this envelope in fact they never told by
kazanowski since you were involved in
making sure about the burial plot so
you're also being given this discus that
you should deliver this envelope to her
you should place this envelope in her
hands
so the kazanowski speaking you can hear
the recording maybe I'll post it
somewhere people can have access he says
I put the envelope in her hands
he says maybe it was a fantasy you know
maybe I'm Dreaming but
I put at first I I asked Michaela as one
does one one
ask forgiveness from them from the mess
before you
do anything with it
um
he he says I asked forgiveness and then
I placed the envelope in her hands
he says maybe I was dreaming but I felt
like I felt her fingers take the
envelope like you said like love a dick
of fingers like like living like a
living hand I felt it take it like
receive it
afterwards after the levia
the Freedia could have been told Robert
kazanovski
you didn't tell them what was in the
envelope nobody knows what was in the
envelope as far as I know
but the photographer told Eric
kazanowski
then
first
was Jordan
if anyone would know
what was written there meaning in in
that envelope
and he said it just like that
you would have for her a whole new level
of respect
what was written there I don't know but
the freedom kazanowski who himself was
the one who placed the envelope and ever
since she never saw his holy hands that
if you would know what was written in
that envelope you would have a whole new
respect for her I don't know it was
there but what I do know is that that's
something to take seriously the David
could have been told his khasid that
there's something I'm not going to tell
you what it is but if you would know it
you would have a whole new level of
respect and think about the level of
respect kazanovski had already
and yet he told them whatever level of
respect you have now you would have a
whole God it should have a whole new
level of respect
so I think it behooves us to have
a whole new level of respect for this
holy woman
now
the feeling was not well as we mentioned
so he did not go to the kavoda to the
burial at Old Montefiore he was at the
levia of Iowa's in front of 770. he went
out for that but when
when the family needed to get the
Philadelphia to do things he didn't want
to do they would have shmulovitten
Azeroth
and so he passed and
because of health reasons the fairy God
is not allowed to attend the burial so
he did not attend the burial he did not
go to Queens
he just attended the levia in front of
770. the funeral procession
and in fact
he never as far as We Know
uh went to Queens and went to his
mother's cave so it's interesting that
the whole reason
that her
caver was chosen to be where it is is to
make it close to it's close enough
accessible to 770 but he didn't end up
going there at all which makes you think
maybe there were other reasons as well
but who knows who can figure things out
like that it's not for us to really to
know but it's interesting to think about
but anyway here's what I want to tell
you and this to me is just mind-blowing
the federal government did not visit now
we're talking about from touching base
your gimbal caption base until your chat
when when was the histalcus of the
filigree rabbit so we're talking about
eight years
um minus a few days
so he did not ever visit the grave as
far as anyone knows
but he sent
listen to this
but what we call a pan a pigeon nafish
it's a very specific type of
Correspondence and this this is written
in in the Memoirs of he writes about
this he saw this himself
would write the pan on Allah like we
write a partner about a little bit
different text that he used than what we
have come to use but but my point I'm
trying to bring out here is it was the
it was the formula that accosted writes
to Arabia
goes to the history goes to prostrate at
the grave of of
and he would write that text
regularly how often I don't know the
number of times but it was it was I
think the McGraw writes flecked he used
to do it like it was a thing that it was
more than once it wasn't just a one-time
thing it used to do this and he would
send the pigeonis he would send these
letters with RAF shmuel with uh Abby
levitten and he would read them at
rabbits and stanosaurus caver
now I'm just saying some commentary
Hashem
I noticed that there's a lot of activity
by the rabbits in hayabuskas
okay there
um see wedding invitations there and all
types of activity people go there
uh also rabbits and Hannah who's a
little bit further down but also close
by
it would be I think
I'm just thinking out loud and who am I
but
could happen I'm not telling you there's
a new minute to write a pigeon to a
Robinson although that itself is just
something I think at least to spend a
moment to be missing just the The Wonder
of that
um
but you should know that episode
her
is just a few feet away
from
the oil it's actually right next to
Robinson she's right next to him
and the Phoenix there
so it might be a place to start to think
to to stop saying to tell him
it might be
um and speaking of the episode
I'll tell you one more
interesting thing you know the famous
picture of the candlesticks that abbots
and heimushka's Candlestick so it's
regal elegant simple candlesticks
lit with when did she start lighting
those and how did she get them
she
got them
after 1942 they were the rabbits and
stanosaurus candlesticks
apparently I've seen uh had other
candlesticks also in the house so maybe
those are what she used before that but
she received those
and that's what she lit with
and furthermore I will tell you that
after
the stalkers of the Robinson
Le Chavez scandals
you ever started letting Shabbos candles
after the stalkers of the rabbitsun
so what candlesticks did that other use
from that time on
those same candlesticks that abbots and
dinosaurs candlesticks
lit shabboskins when he lets shot with
Shabbos candles from the candlesticks
that were originally
what happens in stamosaurus candlesticks
so I think it behooves us to reflect a
moment
on how special
this uh this holy rabbitson was and is
a yard site as I mentioned is Shabbos
same caves
as this uh as the year that she passed
she passed on a Shabbos shabashira
adoption base this year gimmel
which is the 81st yard site it was the
same coffee as Shabbos I'll I'll just
read from the hayamyang
which in the year of
caption gimmel was the first yard site
of her passing and that was a Tuesday
your Democrat was a Tuesday that year
but at the beginning this is how I
started it says yard site
a lot of people have read this okay
technical thing I don't know I mean how
interesting is that that a yard site is
on the day of passing even the first
year the first anniversary and even if
the day of burial is not just pushed off
by one day because you remember she her
stalkers was Shabbos so anyways it
wasn't going to be Shabbos it would have
been the next day but it was pushed off
an extra day until Monday
you read this I mean okay fine technical
thing I guess that's our Munich
how often does it come up
but if you know what's behind it what
was the rabbit writing the devil was
writing on the first yard site of his
adaba's mother
something that refers to the
selflessness of his rabbit that the
whole reason
why the Kura was was many days after the
passing was only because of the
selflessness of the fried that he agreed
to Grant yehdas to Jews in Chicago
otherwise
it wouldn't have been pushed off until
Monday
so you read a word like that seems to
seems so technical it seems dry uh how
applicable is it
irrelevant
I guess it's applicable but how to how
many people how many situations is it
applicable so is it really relevant to
me it's very relevant to youth that you
should know
what a rabbit is
someone who has no opinion of himself he
is
you know when the rabbit hi mushka and
her deposition during the slottom trial
they asked how do you know that this
Photon belong
to the system she said how do I know
this photo belong to the consider my
father belonged to the Sith
what do you think that means my father
belong to the suit
means
he was an iron
he was struck with raw grief he was the
only child of his mother
that they wouldn't let him go
because he didn't want you to listen you
understand what you can we know what you
can smell for the future girl because it
happens and I sort of said when I go
into my son's room after you hit the
floor is wet with tears
he had his own tears
people wanted to come and tell the
figure of their problems that he should
empathize with them and and cry their
tears
it's unfathomable
we read that oh the day of the yard site
even if it's pushed off from the day
even if the burial was pushed off from
the from the day of passing oh it's
still still the Yorkshire stole the dead
past we just read it like it's technical
and you talk about a song
who delayed his mother's funeral because
he wanted to be available for others
that's what a rabbit is
very sad like
she did not live to see the cool
stand up soda
foreign
she should rejoin us here in this world
and she should see finally
the complete and Final Redemption
together with all of us
a