14 of Sivan - Marriage of Rabbi Menachem Mendel, youngest son of the Rebbe Mahrash - בשנת תרמ"ב נשואין של הרב מנחם מענדל בנו הצעיר של המהר"ש

00:00 Speaker 1 On the fourteenth day of Sivan, and this is in Tafresh Mem Base, which is six hundred and forty-two. This puts it a hundred and twenty-two years ago. Yeah. Uh-

00:11 Speaker 2 So that would be like eighteen ninety or so.

00:13 Speaker 1 Yeah. Was the wedding of, uh, Reb Menachem Mendel. He was the, um, youngest son of the Rebbe Maharash. Um, so he-- First, he married, um-- His first marriage was to Sarah, who was the daughter of the great genius, Reb Akiva Karnitzer from Krakow, who was a-- She was a granddaughter of the Chasam Sofer, who was a, a great, uh, Hasidic scholar and, uh, master, Hasidic master. In the invitation to the, um, wedding, the Rebbe Maharash writes, "As Hashem has merited me to the marriage of my, uh, youngest son." He had the-- Who was the Rezo or Zamarnat, three sons, and Reb Shalom Dov Ber, that was the Rebbe Rashab.

01:12 Speaker 2 Right.

01:13 Speaker 1 Rezo was the oldest, and Reb Shalom Dov Ber was the middle one, and then you had Reb Menachem Mendel, he was the youngest. So he says, "As Hashem has granted me the great privilege to the marriage of my youngest son with his, um, Kallah, the daughter, the granddaughter of, um, from the Chasam Sofer, from Krakow, from the great... And the time of the wedding has been set up for the fourteenth day of Sivan." So he's inviting, "To my dear f- my dear, my loved ones to come to that day to be together to rejoice. May Hashem give us the privilege to rejoice in the joy of Hashem, who is rejoicing in all of his creation and in his Jewish people who do the mitzvahs and in the joy of our sons and your-- And, and, and, uh, may Hashem, uh, bless you with all g-good things." That was the invitation. On the second marriage, he married-- It doesn't say what happened, whether she passed away, his time, but the second marriage, he married the Rebbetzin Basia, who was the daughter of Reb Nachum Dov Ber from Urovtsch, who was the son of the Reb Yisroel of Urovtsch. Um, Reb Yisroel of Urovtsch, um, who was, um, who was the, uh, brother of the Rebbetzin Sterner Sarah, uh, the wife of the Rebbe Rashab. Okay. So Reb Yisroel of Urovtsch was one of the children of the Samach Tzedek, and his daughter, uh, ended up marrying, uh, Sterner Sarah ended up marrying the Rebbe Rashab. She's

03:06 Speaker 1 actually interned in the cemetery at the, um, at the oil. She's interned over there.

03:13 Speaker 2 Is that the grave Morty was showing us?

03:14 Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah. Sterner Sarah.

03:16 Speaker 2 Yeah.

03:16 Speaker 1 Um, the, um, um, the second-- His marriage was a son of, of Dov Ber from Ur-Urovtsch. So, um, that was the, um, second time that Menachem Mendel, that was the wife that he married over there. Again, um, that Chassuna, the Chassuna took place in the city of Lubavitch. The Rebbe Maharash said, uh, several Hasidic discourses. Um, so again, I'm not sure. It doesn't say here. I'm sure we can look that up. Not sure what happened, whether his wife passed away, uh-

04:00 Speaker 2 In childbirth

04:00 Speaker 1 ...that, that happened. Not sure about that, but this was the second marriage. And, um, um, like I said, the-- that families, they were all intertwined, intermarried again, all in the family, cousins and, and, um, you know, today they already have, I've seen they have books with trees and online they have trees, uh, so to help you visually see how the different, uh, families. But even visually, there's a lot of lines crossing all the time because they matched up in various different, various different ways and in different places.

04:37 Speaker 3 Very common in those times.

04:38 Speaker 1 Mm.

04:40 Speaker 3 But today it's not.

04:42 Speaker 2 Oh, yeah.

04:42 Speaker 3 Although the, uh, some of them still do