0228 - When R' Zalman Vilenkin's Wife Passed Away

00:01 My Zayde, Rav Zalman Velentky's wife, her name was Zelda, passed away in Shevat, תשח, which was about two years after my Zayde. My Zayde passed away in Iyar תשג, and she passed away תשח. After my Zayde passed away, she moved into my aunt's house, and that's where she stayed till she passed away. When she passed away, the day of her levaya that evening, my brother, Shalom Ber, went into Yechidas for his birthday. In Yechidas, the Rebbe asked him, בנגד the levaya, and he asked him, "Did they bury her in the same shura, in the same line with your Zayde, with her husband?" And my brother said he doesn't know. And it seemed to the Rebbe that the Rebbe would want that that should have happened. So the Rebbe said to him, "When you go out, you'll go into Maskirus, and you'll ask him to find out if he-- she was buried in the same line of your Zayde." Then the Rebbe said to him, "You should have-- They should have a candle burning the whole time." And the Rebbe said, "I'll give you a candle, a seven-day candle." 'Cause this was תשח, so the Rebbe was in the year of avelus, so he had a candle burning. So he had candles in his room. So he said, "I'll give you a candle." So the Rebbe started looking for a candle, for the big candles, the seven-day candles to give him, and the Rebbe couldn't find. So the Rebbe said to him, "You'll go out, you'll

01:19 go into Maskirus, you'll tell them that I said that they should give you a candle." And then the Rebbe also said that you should make sure that there is a minyan, I think he said at least once a day in the house where she lived, because she had no children of her own. במילא there was no one sitting shiva, so there was no minyan in the house. So the Rebbe said that you should have a minyan in the house, at least I think he said once a day should be a minyan in the house where she lived. My brother, when he went out of Yechidas, went into Maskirus. So first of all, he told them about the candle, and they gave him a candle, which was one from the candles that was going for the Rebbe, and they gave him one of these candles. And then when he a- he told them to be מברר whether she was buried in one line, one shura with my Zayde. So Rabbi Yomim Klein was מברר, and he gave it over to the Rebbe that she was buried on one line. Now, we don't know if the Rebbe had instructed them to do this before, or the Chevra Kadisha on their own decided to do it, or maybe it was just בהשגחה פרטית that it came out the right way that she was buried in one line. And בנגד the minyan, we made sure that in my aunt's house where she lived the last few years, there was

02:27 a minyan every day.