13 of Sivan - Marriage of Rabbi Levi Yitcha and Rebbetzin Chanah, parent of Rebbe

00:00 Speaker 1 Uh, this is Yud Gimel Sivan, Taf Resh Samach. That's the thirteenth day of Sivan in the year six hundred and sixty, which makes-- puts it a hundred and fourteen years ago, approximately. Yeah. So that was the wedding date-

00:16 Speaker 2 Nineteen hundred.

00:17 Speaker 1 What?

00:17 Speaker 2 Nineteen hundred then.

00:18 Speaker 1 Yeah. The wedding of the great rabbi and genius, Reb Levi Yitzchok Schneersohn, with the Rebbetzin Chana, that's the parents of the Rebbe, uh, Levi Yitzchok and Chana Schneersohn. Then it so happens my, my, my son, his name is Levi Yitzchok and his wife is Chana .

00:41 Speaker 2 Wow.

00:41 Speaker 1 And they have a son, Menachem Mendel, who's gonna have his upshurinest, uh, right here in Shavuot.

00:46 Speaker 2 Oh, wow.

00:47 Speaker 1 So, so it's-- he's Menachem Mendel, then Levi Yitzchok and Chana. But anyways, um, when, um, when the Reb Levi Yitzchok, uh, reached the age of marriageable age, the Rebbe Rashab, Reb Sholom Dovber, the fourth Rebbe, uh, he introduced the shidduch, the match between the Reb Levi Yitzchok and the Rebbetzin Chana, who was the daughter of the great Chasid and genius, Reb Meir Shlomo Yanovsky, who was the city-- who was the rabbi in the city of Nikolaev. So, um, after they set the chasuna date, the wedding date for Erev Shabbos, that's a Friday, uh, that followed Shavuos. Um, so then the kallah became sick, and her father wanted to push off the chasuna. He sent a special, uh, agent to, uh, the Rebbe Rashab to get his approval for pushing it off. But the Rebbe did not agree. He gave his blessing that everything is going to be on the best way, and there's nothing to worry about. So the chasuna did take place at the time that it was set and, um, which is the thirteenth day of Sivan, Taf Resh Samach, on Friday. We see, we find it, you know, many, uh, many of the weddings took place on a Friday. It's not so common today to make. Sometimes people do it, but with all the elaborate weddings that we have today, it's not really that common to have a wedding on Friday. Um, but in those days, there was a lot of, lot of marriages took place on Friday. After the wedding, uh,

02:46 Speaker 1 the Rebbe sent a-- the Rebbe Rashab sent a letter with blessings to the father of the choson, uh, Reb Baruch Schneer. Um, and that was in addition to the telegram that he sent on the wedding date. And in his letter, he's-- he writes, uh, to, uh, the honorable, um, uh, gra-grandson of my dear friend, Baruch Schneer. Because this is the, um... I guess he's writing to the, to the Rebbe, to Reb Levi Yitzchok, who was a grandson, um, of Baruch Schneer. Um, no, da, da, da, da, da, one second. Um, so I'm not so sure, not sure. The father, Reb Baruch Schneer was the Reb Levi's father. Um, oh, he-- no, but the grandfather from, you know, Baruch Schneer's grandfather. This is sending to, to the Baruch Schneer, he's sending, uh, to the Baruch Schneer, and he's calling him the grandson of the previous, you know, the elder generation, because from the Tzemach Tzedek. And he wishes him from the depths of his heart a blessing of mazel tov, uh, on the marriage of those dear to my soul, the Levi Yitzchok Sheyichya. So may Hashem bless them that the match should be a successful match for long years, good, good and pleasant years in life, spiritually and physically, with great success in all details, with a beautiful generation to follow, children that are blessed by Hashem as the desires of our fathers. And may you receive much nachas in the, uh, in all details. Uh, because of my preoccupation, this letter has been delayed,

04:54 Speaker 1 and the telegram, I'm sure you received the time. It wishes them, uh, a lot of blessing with love and with friendship and, um, uh, his-- they were cousins as well because of the all from the Tzemach Tzedek's children. And so he says, "My cousin who, uh, um, wishes you all the best." Um, Reb Levi Yitzchok, the new, uh, son-in-law of Reb Meir Shlomo, was, uh, basically lived with his father-in-law. He supported him, uh, for about ten years till the year of Taf Resh Samach Tes. For ten years, he lived in Nikolaev, and he was there and sitting and occupied in Torah day and night. And in the year Taf Resh Samach Tes, he became the rabbi in the city of Yekatrinoslav, Dnepropetrovsk. They became-- he became the, uh, rabbi over there. Now, the Rebbe, uh, would occasionally, uh, talk about his experiences while he was a child in the city of Nikolaev. Um, they would also go to visit Nikolaev and, uh, I guess the Rebbe was born in Nikolaev, uh, while they were there. Um, and, um, the Rebbe fondly would speak about various different experiences that he had from his childhood over there back home in Nikolaev.