0079 - R' Zalman Vileinkin's Matzeiva

00:01 Talking about my grandfather, so when it came to the Nusach HaDeMatzeivah, my aunt, his daughter, uh, her name was Dina Dubrawski, or she called her also Dina Vilenkin. She had somebody write down, we worked out a Nusach HaDeMatzeivah, and she happened to go into Yechidus, and she gave the Rebbe the Nusach HaDeMatzeivah. The Rebbe looked at it, read it through, and says to her, Why doesn't it say that he used to teach Yiddishe kinder? And then the Rebbe also said that there are other Talmidim, I think he mentioned Reb Nachum Goldschmidt and other Talmidim with whom he learned. Why doesn't it say it? And then the Rebbe said to her that tonight, Rabbi Jacobson was gonna come into Yechidus. It was-- He's on the list to go into Yechidus, and Rabbi Jacobson was the head of the Chevrei Kadisha, at least a certain... He had a certain chelek in being part of the Chevrei Kadisha. I think the head was Rabbi Ushpol, but he was also part of the Chevrei Kadisha. So the Rebbe said that, "Rabbi Jacobson is coming into me tonight, so I'm gonna discuss with him what to write." So she waited outside in the neiden atach when Rabbi Jacobson went in. And as soon as Rabbi Jacobson came out, he didn't say this is the lashon the Rebbe told him, but he came out and he said to her, "This is what you should write." And he wrote down the words , that he was zecher that the Rebbe and the

01:26 Rebbe's initials of his name, lear-learned by him. So since he said that right after he came out of Yechidus, obviously he discussed it with the Rebbe. So I don't know if the Rebbe told him those words or he has-- whatever, but it came from the Rebbe that these words should be written. Actually, probably that's what the Rebbe meant when he said to her before that why doesn't it say that he learned Yiddishe kinder ? That's what he meant, and so he should be part of it. So that's what, if you look at the Matzeivah, that's what it says there. That's the greatest zechus that you can put on the Matzeivah. And actually, my mother, aliyah hashalom, we put on her Matzeivah that she's a daughter of Zalman Vilenkin. All based on the lashon that the Rebbe said to her, came out from the Rebbe to write on the Matzeivah of my grandfather.