15 of Menachem Av - Marriage of Chaya Sara, youngest daughter of the Miteler Rebbe - טו באב תקפ"ו - חתונת חי' שרה, בתו הצעירה של אדמו"ר האמצעי

00:00 Peace, the fifteenth day, Menachem Av, ימי חב”ד. This was in the year תקפ”ו. The Mitteler Rebbe, that was the second Rebbe, the son of the Alter Rebbe of Schneur Zalman. His name was Dov Ber. He had many children. His youngest daughter name was Chaya Sarah. That was his youngest daughter's name. And, um, on the fifteenth day of Menachem Av was the wedding with, uh, Reb Aron Alexandrov from Shklov. Uh, this Reb Aron Alexandrov of Shklov, uh, was a son of a great Chassid. His name was Reb Chaim Moshe. Um, during their wedding, the Mitteler Rebbe, Reb Dov Ber, uh, he gave many, uh, discourses at the time. And it's interesting that the book, the Torah Or book, you know, we study, um, those have the ma'amarim from the Alter Rebbe. Uh, they were actually printed by, uh, this Reb Aron, uh, that was the son-in-law of the Mitteler Rebbe. Um, he actually, first time, he printed them and, uh, the previous Rebbe writes about it that, um, uh, that he, uh, Reb Aron, the son of Chaim Moshe, of Alexandrov, center from Shklov, he was a, a brother-in-law of the Tzemach Tzedek, because of course, the Tzemach Tzedek married the daughter of the Mitteler Rebbe, and so did, uh, he marry, uh, Aron Alexandrov. He also married a daughter of the Alter Rebbe. Uh, so, um, he helped him, and he encouraged him to print these, uh, ma'amarim, the Alter Rebbe, the Tzemach Tzedek, his brother-in-law. And, um, they, uh, were the parents. They had

02:01 a daughter, um, whose name was Rivka. Rivka ended up marrying, uh, the, um, wa-- the, the Reb Shmuel. Reb Shmuel, of course, was the youngest son of the Tzemach Tzedek. Um, so that was basically a cousin because, uh, the Tzemach Tzedek and Reb Aron were married to two sisters, both daughters of the Mitteler Rebbe. Uh, uh, so this Rivka and Reb Shmuel, who was the son of the Tzemach Tzedek, were first cousins. Um, and, um, actually, this Rebbetzin Rivka, the wife of the Rebbe Maharahsh, um, she was raised by, um, by her grandparents because both of her mother and father both, uh, uh, died ear-- in an early age, uh, which means the Reb Aron and the Rebbetzin Chaya Sarah, the daughter of the Mitteler Rebbe and son-in-law died, a-and they were raised by the Mitteler Rebbe, by the grandparents, uh, uh, the Rebbetzin Shenah. She was the wife of the Mitteler Rebbe, so she raised her grand-granddaughter, who eventually, um, married the Rebbe Maharahsh. So it's all intertwined within the family of the Rebbe. Now, this Rebbetzin Rivka, so Rivka is named after her and, uh, there is many, uh, uh, interesting, uh, details about that also, but that's, uh, that's for another time.