13 of Iyar - Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Yisroel Aryeh Leib, Brother of the Rebbe - יג אייר, יאהרצייט ישראל ארי ליב

00:00 Speaker 1 Chabad, you make Chabad for the thirteenth day of Iyar and then Tush Yud Beis. This is really nineteen fifty-two. Uh, the thirteen days of Iyar, um, that was the day of passing Rabbi Yisroel Ari Leib Schneersohn, that's the brother of the Rebbe. Uh, um, and, um, as we'll see, he's interned in, in Tzfat, uh, Yisroel Ari Leib.

00:22 Speaker 2 The former Rebbe's brother or-

00:22 Speaker 1 No, the-- our Rebbe's brother. The Rebbe's brother.

00:24 Speaker 2 Okay.

00:24 Speaker 1 Yeah. So he says, yeah, uh, he says Rab-- he was born in the year Taf Resh Samach Tes. Um, he was younger than the Rebbe. Uh, he was born also-- He was born in the city of, of Nikolaev. That's where they resided first, his parents, the Reb Levi Yek and the Rebbetzin Chana. Uh, the Rebbe's parents and his parents, they lived in Nikolaev, where is the city where her father was the rabbi over there in the city of Nikolaev. And he had, uh, very, um, uh, tremendous talent, powerful talents. He was very smart. He was sharp, very deep, analytical. He had a, a mind, a geni- a mind of a genius. Um, for a, uh, certain period of time, he actually lived in, in, in Leningrad, which, uh, was the place the, the previous Rebbe lived. Um, and he was very endeared by the previous Rebbe, and he was also very much, very well-liked by the Hasidim. Uh, and they would, uh, you know, always surround him. They would challenge him with words of Torah, Hasidas, Halakha. And they would always, you know, discuss with him various different aspects of the Torah. Uh, in the year Taf Reish Tsadik, um, that's around-- that's nineteen thirty, he, um, he left, um, he left, uh, Russia, and he settled in the city of Berlin. Which is just interesting how, you know, people couldn't easily leave. It wasn't an easy time to leave then. I'm not sure how they left Russia or how he got out, but he

02:00 Speaker 1 left Russia, and he settled in Berlin, in Germany. In the year Taf Reish Tsadik Daled, that's in, uh, that's in nineteen thirty-four, approx-approximately, he went up to-- he made Aliyah to Israel, and he settled in, uh, Tel Aviv, in which he, he got married. And, uh, um, and then in nineteen fifty, uh, he went to, um, complete his studies, his, um, degree. He went to, actually to Liverpool in England, in England. He went to Liverpool to go to the, I guess, the university over there. And, you know, he died at a young age, um, because, I mean, he was, um, um... He was born in, uh, Samach Tes. That was, uh, uh, uh, what was it? Um, I think it was nineteen oh nine or something like that. He was born in nineteen oh nine. Uh, he was born nineteen oh nine, and he passed away-

03:04 Speaker 2 Thirty-four.

03:05 Speaker 1 And he passed away in, uh... No, he passed away in nineteen fifty-three.

03:10 Speaker 2 Yeah. No, I mean, he got married in thirty-

03:11 Speaker 1 Yeah, nineteen fifty-three.

03:13 Speaker 2 He got married in Germany.

03:13 Speaker 1 So, okay. No, it was fifty-three. Um, uh, nineteen oh one. Yeah. So he was like, um, was he forty something? Yeah, forty, uh, um-

03:27 Speaker 2 He was-

03:28 Speaker 1 It was like forty years, yeah.

03:29 Speaker 2 Yeah. And what was his name?

03:31 Speaker 1 Uh, Yisroel Ari Leib.

03:33 Speaker 2 Ah.

03:33 Speaker 1 Yisroel Ari Leib. Um, he was, um... The Rebbe asked to, uh, uh, take the body and bring it up to Israel. He was-- And he's buried in the Chabad section in the city of Tzfat. You know, people today also on, uh, thirteen days of Iyar, they commonly go down to, um, to visit, uh, the, the, the grave site of the, um, Rebbe Yisroel Ari Leib. Um, you know, the Rebbe had one more brother, uh, uh, yet another brother. Uh, and, uh, um, so there was only actually three brothers that was there. And, um, um, so, you know, the Hasidim especially, uh, they wanted to, um, you know, stay connected like somewhere physically with the Rebbe. Uh, he had, um... There's still descendants from them that live in Israel. Uh, from this Yisroel Ari Leib, there is still descendants that they live in that area. Uh, they're instructed not to trouble them, you know. The Hasidim wanna like, uh, you know, reach out to them. I mean, I don't think that they're so religious. I mean, maybe they're, they're some-- I'm not sure exactly, but there is, there's family members over there. So that's technically, I think, uh, the direct descendants or direct relatives from the Rebbe. That's probably one of the few that we know. I mean, I mean, from his... This is his, his brother's children. I mean, that's the only one. And, um, uh, from the, uh, his wife's side of the family, Rebbe-- Also there is, you know, Rebbe didn't have any

05:06 Speaker 1 children. Uh, the Rebbe's sister, uh, had one son who didn't have any children. And, uh, and then the other, um, uh, then the other, um, another daughter was, was murdered by the Germans, Yom HaShem.

05:21 Speaker 2 Oh, wow.

05:22 Speaker 1 So that's... So, you know.

05:23 Speaker 2 What was the name again?

05:24 Speaker 1 Um, but the- that's, uh, but that's just the way it go. But I guess the Rebbe still has a lot of children, right? We're all the Rebbe's children. You know, the Rebbe's, uh, impacted in all of us, yeah. What do you say?