4 of Tamuz - The day of passing of Rebbitzin Esther Miriam daughter of the Mittler Rebbe

00:00 Speaker 1 We will do the, uh, first we'll do the Yemei Chabad, the days of Chabad. This is for the fourth day of Tammuz in Tet kuf ayin tes. Uh, this is, uh, five hundred, uh, uh, five hundred and seventy-nine. I mean, this puts it almost two hundred years ago, right? Uh, um, almost two hundred years ago. And this is, this is the day of passing of the Rebbetzin Esther Miriam, a daughter of the Mitteler Rebbe, daughter of the second Lubavitcher Rebbe. You see, we don't even know all of the history. You know, today we have genealogy. People are going back and trying to find out where their parents, where they came from. A lot of things are not, you know, weren't known. In the olden days, they didn't have records like we have today. And even in the history of Chabad, you know, when they were trying to record and relate, some information wasn't known to them. Like in this case, this Rebbetzin, we're talking about Esther Miriam, they just found in the cemetery in the city of Lubavitch, they found in the cemetery a area which was designated for the women, the women's area. They found a tin matzeva, a inscription which says, and that this woman, Morris Esther Miriam, the daughter of the Rebbe of Dubern, and she died, it says, the fourth day of Tammuz in the year tet kuf ayin tes. And, um, you know, that she died during her father's lifetime. So, um, that's why maybe she wasn't, didn't never, family

01:40 Speaker 1 never developed into something, so that's why they didn't hear about it. But, um, they didn't even know all this time. This just happened when they found this. He says, um, in the year, um, tes shin nun. So that's only like thirty years ago. They just found it. This thing, they only found like thirty something years ago.

02:03 Speaker 2 She died eighteen nineteen.

02:05 Speaker 1 Nun, samach, ayin. So, uh, samach, ayin. So like twenty, I'm sorry, like twenty-four years ago. So they didn't even know it exists because they went back to the city. They started to re, uh, rebuilt over there and fix up. You know, it was like neglected. But once the Russian opened up, the Russians opened up, the perestroika and the glasnost, they started. So then they were able to travel over there, and then they sort of, uh, found out a lot more information. So that was found, and then she was found as well. Just interesting, just to mention this, um, uh, somebody told me, uh, when they went to the cemetery in Rhode Island, uh, in Newport, he saw somebody with the, uh, same last name as ours. Uh, he couldn't read so well Hebrew, but he said he's, he could make up, make out it said the same, our last name. He said-- So he asked me, "Do we have any relatives that were buried over there?" And what was amazing about it is it had like an unusual inscription on it. It said like something fascinating. It said, "This was a man who sat and studied day and night, never ceased to study. And he was like, um, a very, uh, holy and, you know, a very studious, uh, talmid chacham." Now, who in, who in Newport, Rhode Island, you know, who would think... And he died in the ear- early nineteen hundreds, he died over there. No, not, uh, no, no, I shouldn't say.

03:35 Speaker 1 What did I say? Um, uh, maybe later than that. Maybe in the, um, not early nineteen hundreds, in the mid nineteen hundreds, maybe in nineteen fifty or something like that, nineteen forty. Nineteen forty sometime he died. And he was buried over there. And you're wondering, where would they get such an inscription? And I was wondering if it's related to us or not. But, um, then we looked. I mean, unfortunately, by the time I found out, both of my parents were already gone, I think, or my, my father at least was, was gone. So I couldn't check with him of anything of that name. I tried to... But then we found when they came in, like ten years earlier, they came in. There's on- online on Ellis Island, you can sort of check. So we find, we found, we found them there. So they would came like ten years before. Um, I found it very, uh, fascinating, um, that, you know, this is, uh, that they would write exactly spells the name like we do in Yiddish, you know, and it was, and such a, uh, uh, learned person. It was like, uh, amazing. Then after that, about a year later, this goes back about four or five years, uh, that I know about this. Then about a year after that, I get an email from somebody who says, uh, "Our, uh, you know, we're doing genealogy, and our grand, great-grandfather is buried in Newport, Rhode Island, and this is the name. The name is Volosov."

04:59 Speaker 1 And he wants to know, are we related? He wants to know. And I, you know, I told him, "I don't know." I mean, what did I tell him? And that was, you know, he's, uh, they have, uh, they live out somewhere in Baltimore, I think, or Maryland somewhere, I think they live, uh, over there. And, you know, uh, he didn't, um, you know... But he's like from a daughter, so they knew. He, so he is a descendant. He knows that. That was his mother's father or mother's mother's father. So, you know, uh, the, so they know that. But this is different. So I found that interesting, but the, not so much that the same last name exactly, but also the title and that it would be Newport, Rhode Island, that it was important that time to, to do that. So that was, uh, fascinating.