24 of Nissan - תרכ"ו - passing of Rabbi Schneur Zalmen Mordechei

00:00 Speaker 1 Twenty-four, he made Chabad for the twenty- fourth day of Nisan in the year Taf Reish Chav Vav. April ninth, 1866, and that was the time of the passing of the great genius and Chasid. Notice they're all introduced always as a Rabba Gaon, a Rabba Chasid. These were outstanding scholars, and they're always introduced as the great genius and the great Chasid. Um, and these are not just titles. These are real-

00:25 Speaker 2 Right, right

00:25 Speaker 1 ... people that lived up to that. And his name was Schneur Zalman. Now you'd figure Schneur Zalman, you know already why Schneur Zalman. He was named after the Alter Rebbe. But he, Schneur Zalman, but they also added-- they also had the name Mordechai. Uh, this was because he was a grandson of both, of the Alter Rebbe, a great-grandson, and also of Mordechai Chernobyler. So they called him Schneur Zalman Mordechai. So then, and he was the son of Reb Yosef Yitzchak of Ovruch. That was the Mitler Rebbe's son. I believe, uh, I mean, the, uh, Tsamach Tzedek's son. I believe he was the fourth son. So he was Reb Yosef Yitzchak from Ovruch. Uh, this Reb Yosef Yitzchak, he was the son. He passed away on the twenty-fourth Nisan Taf Reish Chav Vav. This, uh, Reb Schneur Zalman Mordechai. Now, uh, Reb Yosef Yitzchak from Ovruch, the son of the Tsamach Tzedek, he married, uh, the Rebbetzin Chana, who was a daughter of Yaakov Yisroel of Cherkas. And Yaakov Yisroel of Cherkas was a son-in-law of the Mitler- a son-in-law of the Mitler Rebbe. Yaakov Yisroel was the son of Reb Mordechai Chernobyler, who was the son of Reb Nachum Chernobyler. Hey, we're getting it there. We're getting it to a-

01:38 Speaker 2 Remember the Alter Rebbe went to the wedding.

01:39 Speaker 1 We're figuring out the-- The Alter Rebbe went to the wedding. Yeah, both of them.

01:42 Speaker 2 The wedding, right.

01:42 Speaker 1 Alter Rebbe and the-- that, that was the, uh-

01:44 Speaker 2 Chernobyler Rebbe.

01:45 Speaker 1 Okay.

01:45 Speaker 2 They went-- They were classmates with each other.

01:47 Speaker 1 All right. Now it says here that Reb Schneur Zalman Mordechai Schneerson was a tremendous genius and, uh, already at the age of seventeen, he was appointed to be the rabbi in the city of Zhitomir. You can imagine, you know, at the age of seventeen.

02:03 Speaker 2 A young man.

02:03 Speaker 1 In the age of seventeen, Zhitomir. He also died at a very young age. You know, he started out early, but he died early too. Uh-

02:10 Speaker 2 The stress of being a rabbi.

02:11 Speaker 1 He-- He-- Yeah. Well, that's what it says in the Talmud. It says these are one of the things that shorten one's life is the-

02:17 Speaker 2 With studying

02:18 Speaker 1 ... is the rabbinate.

02:18 Speaker 2 The stress. The stress.

02:18 Speaker 1 Is the rabbinate.

02:20 Speaker 2 It's very hard to be-

02:22 Speaker 1 You know, sometimes they said you don't wanna, you know-

02:24 Speaker 2 At the board

02:25 Speaker 1 ... certain things, the old is no good. They said an old, an old teacher is no good. And the reason, had he been a good teacher, he wouldn't get old.

02:34 Speaker 2 Oh.

02:34 Speaker 1 You know, so this is, you know. So, um, but in any event, um, he died in this, um, in-- while his father was alive still. He died shortly, two weeks after the-- his grandfather, the Tsamach Tzedek, as we know, the Alter Tsamach Tzedek passed away on the thirteenth day of Nisan. Yom Nisan in the year Taf Reish Chav Vav. He died about-- passed away about two, uh, weeks later. He also has the distinction that he was the brother of the Rebbetzin Stirna Sara, who was the wife of the Rebbe Maharash. The Rebbe Maharash married a daughter of, of, uh, Reb Yosef Yitzchak of Ovruch, who, again, as we said before, who married, uh, the daughter of Yaakov Yisroel of Cherkas, who Yaakov Yisroel of Cherkas married the daughter of the Mitler Rebbe. So the, um, Rebbetzin Stirna Sara, and Rebbetzin Stirna Sara, she's buried in, in, in, in the cemetery, in Montefiore Cemetery over there by the, by the Rebbe over there. It makes it-- You know, it's amazing how it makes it so much more real, the fact that you can actually see a tombstone, and you see a name-

03:43 Speaker 2 Yeah, actual person

03:44 Speaker 1 ... associated there, laying over there gives you a little bit more, uh-

03:49 Speaker 2 It's the mother. It's the mother and the grandmother.

03:50 Speaker 1 The mother. Right. Yeah.

03:52 Speaker 2 Right?

03:53 Speaker 3 She is.

03:54 Speaker 2 The three of them.

03:54 Speaker 1 And the Rebbetzin are Rebbe Maharash. Okay. She was the Rebbetzin of Rebbe Maharash. This is-

03:57 Speaker 2 Right

03:57 Speaker 1 ... this was-- and this was his-- her brother, Schneur Zalman Mordechai.