11 of Sivan - Marriage of Rebbetzin Chanah, daughter of Frierdiker Rebbe to Rashag - בשנת תרפ"א נשואין של הרבנית חנה בתו של אדמו"ר הריי"צ להרב שמריהו גורארי

00:00 Now on the eleventh day of Sivan, uh, is the wedding date of the oldest, uh, daughter of the previous Rebbe to Rebbe Shmaryahu Gurary. Uh, that was on the eleventh day of Sivan in the ye- in the year tav reish peh alef. It's interesting that the youngest sister got married on the tenth day of Sivan, a day earlier, though eleven years later. Yeah. Eleven years later. But this was eleven years earlier, the oldest daughter, and the Rebbe got, Rebbe got married in between. Mm-hmm. The Rebbe got married on the fourteenth day of Kislev. On the fourteenth... But this was on the eleventh day of Sivan with the, uh, Rebbe Rashag. Now, Rabbi Gurary, I mean, we had, uh, you know, um, the privilege to know him because he was sitting, um, right next to the Rebbe by the all the Rebbe's gatherings. Now the Rabbi Gurary, you know, we spoke about it, he, he was the older son-in-law and the Rebbe was the second son-in-law. But of course, you know, he didn't come to the level of the, of the Rebbe. So the-- after the passing of the previous Rebbe, the Rebbe became Rebbe. And since that time, unfortunately, his son, Rabbi Gurary, he had an only son, who again didn't have any na- any, uh, biological children. Um, he never came to terms with that, that his father, who was the older son-in-law, uh, did not, uh, you know, become the leader after the passing of his grandfather. So he sort of moved away

01:41 from Chabad. But his father himself, Rabbi Gurary himself, the Rebbe's, uh, the previous Rebbe's older son-in-law, he accepted the Rebbe as the Rebbe. He really accepted him. He was totally, um, subjugated himself and became like a Hasid of, of the, uh, um, you know, somebody you can count on. You know, he was-- He was always sitting by the Rebbe and always, um, uh, doing, uh, and, and, and, you know, in a, in a way of the greatest respect for the Rebbe. The actual-- The previous Rebbe during his lifetime already, uh, he had instructed later on for his son-in-laws to sort of give little talks or, uh, farbrengen, uh, gather with the Hasidim. So the Ra- Rabbi Gurary's time was, um, was shaleshudes, seudah shlishit, the third meal of Shabbos. That was his time. So for years and years and years later on, even after the Rebbe became Rebbe, Rabbi Gurary would do his seudah shlishit, and he would have-- and he would recite a, a ma'amar, he would recite a Hasidic discourse. So he kept on doing-- It's the Rebbe that moved up and did everything else, but he stayed with the privileges and the responsibilities that he was given by the previous Rebbe. He kept it all the time. Also, um, he, um, he was the head of the Lubavitch Yeshivas, the central Lubavitch Yeshiva, and he would, you know, s- make sure that it's supported financially also. He, he raised lots and lots of monies, and he helped the yeshiva, which was the,

03:27 I guess, the source from where all the Chabad students and the shluchim and everything came was from the Lubavitch Yeshiva, and he was responsible. Yeah, he re- read the one, the main central Lubavitch Yeshiva, and he, uh... So he was the, um, I guess the backbone for, for all this throughout his life. He ran the educational division pretty much. Yeah. Well, he di- he didn't get so much involved in the actual day-to-day of the education, but he was mostly in charge of the financial to see to it that the people contributed and that he brought in big, big bucks, you know, for the yeshiva to continue. Um, the, um-- Also, it's interesting that my father, Hashem, was, uh, asked after his passing because he didn't have, uh, anyone in the shul over there locally to say Kaddish for him. So my father, Hashem, would say Kaddish for him the year during the time after his passing. He's buried next to him. What? He's buried next to the Ohel. Yes. Right. He's buried right, yeah. Yeah. You don't think his son would say Kaddish for him? I'm not sure exactly what was going on over there. That's separate. His son had nothing to do with Chabad. He was his own, uh- That's right ... he did his own thing. So, um, this was from the Chabad's, um- Oh, okay ... the Chabad's perspective. But here, anyways, this is the, uh, invitation. Uh, this is one of the letters actually, which the previous Rebbe writes about the

04:52 shidduch. And he says that on the eleventh day of Sivan in tav reish peh alef, um, was the wedding of my daughter with this very precious young man, Shmaryahu, the son of Menachem Mendel Gurary. Rebbe says he's a precious young man, he's a scholar, and he knows lots of Hasidus, and he learned on the same order as they learn at Tomchei Temimim, and he's also a businessman, and he has a good name amongst the business people. The, uh, wedding took place in the city of Rostov. Uh, Rostov was where they moved after they, um, they, uh, had to leave over there the main areas, um, um, when the, uh, the, the, um... The Rebbe moved to Rostov. That was, uh, that was after-- That, that was actually, um, uh, due to the, um, problems that they were having. So they They moved from, from Lubavitch, from the city of Lubavitch, and then they, they moved to Rostov, and the wedding was over there. Then eventually they went to, uh, Leningrad, and then, uh, and then eventually they left, they left Russia. Uh, then they moved to Poland and et cetera, until they came to the United States. Um, the wedding took place in Rostov. The, uh, previous Rebbe, uh, did all the blessings underneath the chuppah, and it was with a exceptionally meditation with devotion and a long time. He said all the brachos under the chuppah. And during the, uh, Sheva Brachos, uh, there are many, uh, talks and many, um, um, Hasidic discourses

06:52 that they, um, that, that the Rebbe recited during that thing. So that was a special, special occasion. So again, this was, um, this was the first of the three weddings of, of the, um, of the oldest daughters. So that was Chana. Uh, later on, it was, uh, the Rebbe's wedding, married in, in Tofesh Betes. That was, uh, eight years later that the Rebbe got married. And, um, um, this was, um... And later on, three years later, was, was the marriage actually from the youngest daughter. So, um, Rebbe to Shayna. Which is the one that she is- Shayna, that was the youngest. She got married last, but, you know, they got to the youngest- Did they have children? No. Oh, good. They're not that-- Didn't die. There was no, no. There was no, um, no... So you know, like we said about, you know, the Rebbe himself, uh, didn't have any biological children, but you know, uh, it is beyond, you know, um, to say the Rebbe's-- we're all the Rebbe's children in a sense. Uh, we're all impacted. Um, it's, uh, in this week's Parsha we read, it says, uh, "These are the children," it says, "of Aaron and Moshe, Moshe and Aaron." But it only talks about Aaron's children. It doesn't talk about Moshe's children. So Rashi comments and says, "Why are they called Moshe's children if they were only Aaron's children?" And Rashi says, "Because if you teach a son of your friend, you teach him Torah, it's as if you gave birth

08:31 to him, so they're called your children too." So, uh, when you teach somebody Torah, then you've sort of given birth to them, and again, in a spiritual sense. And by the Rebbe, I mean, he's taught Torah and given it to everybody. So we're all, so we're all his children.