1301 - Elul 1 – Chabad History

00:00 Speaker 1 This is, uh, Rosh Chodesh Elul, the first day of Elul. Um, that is a day that marks the wedding of Reb Baruch, who was the son of the Mitteler Rebbe. Now, as we've been discussing, you have the Alter Rebbe, that's Schneur Zalman. His son was, we call the Mitteler Rebbe, the Middle Rebbe. During that period, there was three Rebbes when he got the name Mitteler Rebbe. There was the Tzemach Tzedek, that was the third Rebbe. So it was the Alter Rebbe, the Old Rebbe, that was the first one. Then there was the Mitteler Rebbe, the Middle Rebbe, and then there was the Tzemach Tzedek, he was the third Rebbe. But the name Mitteler Rebbe stuck to him, and he's always called the Mitteler Rebbe, the Middle Rebbe. But he was Reb Dov Ber. Now, his second son, the Mitteler Rebbe, who was a son of the Alter Rebbe, Schneur Zalman, had a son, Dov Ber. Dov Ber had a son, his second son. His second son was Reb Baruch. Now, Reb Baruch was actually-- He was named after his grandfather, the father of Schneur Zalman, the Alter Rebbe, his name was Baruch. So his second son of the Mitteler Rebbe was named Baruch, and, um, his wedding took place on the first day of Elul in the, um, in the year, uh, tav-kuf-pei-beis. Uh, that brings us to, uh, one hundred and, uh, uh, uh, one hundred and ninety, like a hundred and ninety years ago, something like that. A hundred and ninety. Just approximately

01:37 Speaker 1 a hundred and ninety, a hundred and ninety-one years ago. Um, that was the, the wedding date. Now, they all married into the family, actually. They married... In those days, that was especially by the Rebbe's families, they intermarried very close. You know, uh, you know, today we know la-sometimes that could be very, uh, devastating, you know, uh, physically, uh, some-

02:00 Speaker 2 It was his first cousin he married.

02:02 Speaker 1 So actually, exactly. He married the Rebbetzin Beyle Raizel, who was his first cousin. She was-- His wife was a daughter of Reb Chaim Avrohom. Chaim Avrohom was the brother of the Mitteler Rebbe-

02:20 Speaker 2 Mm-hmm

02:20 Speaker 1 ... uh, a son, uh, of the Alter Rebbe. So the Mitteler Rebbe's two ch-- The Alter Rebbe's two children, his son's son and the Alter Rebbe's son's daughter married each other. So that was Reb Baruch marrying Beyle Raizel. And, um, there are many, um, some, uh, discourses by the Mitteler Rebbe that he gave during the, um, during the time of, uh, that wedding that we find, uh, that he, that he talked at the time.