24 of Kislev

00:00 Speaker 1 We're gonna do the Yemei Chabad for the twenty-fourth of Kislev, Taf Resh Peh Vav, which is November...

00:08 Speaker 2 Thirtieth.

00:09 Speaker 1 In which year? November thirtieth?

00:10 Speaker 2 Nineteen twenty-six.

00:11 Speaker 1 In nineteen twenty-six. November thirtieth, nineteen twenty-six. That was the day when the great Hasid, who was a great scholar, he was a genius, and he was a great, uh, righteous man. His name was Reb Dovid Tzvi Hein, known as the Radatz. His day of passing. Uh, this, uh, goen, gaon, Hasid, uh, Reb Dovid Tzvi Hein, he was known amongst the Hasidim in the abbreviation, the Radatz, Reb Dovid Tzvi Hein, was the son of the great Hasid and genius, Reb Peretz Hein from Chernigov. They called him the Peretz Chernigover, he was called, and his son was Reb Dovid Tzvi. Um, he was the-- Reb Peretz Hein was one of the great Hasidim of the Mitteler Rebbe and of the Tzemach Tzedek. And his son, Reb Dovid Tzvi, was from the great Hasidim of the Rebbe Maharash, the Rebbe Rashab, and the Rebbe Rayatz, from three Rebbes of the fourth, fifth, and sixth Lubavitcher Rebbes. He was a Hasid of theirs, this Reb Dovid Tzvi. He was only one of three people who was ordained by the Rebbe Maharash, by the fourth Lubavitcher Rebbe, who gave him authorization to go ahead and become a, a rabbi. He ordained him as a rabbi. After being tested by the Rebbe personally. So the Rebbe Maharash personally tested them and gave them semikhah. He was a tremendous genius in both, in the esoteric parts of Torah and the revealed part of Torah, and he actually served as a rabbi in the city of Chernigov. The previous Rebbe writes in one

02:06 Speaker 1 of his, uh, notes, in one of his, uh, Reishimus, he used to write down for himself. He says that, uh, at one-- that morning, he says, this is writing in his, uh, diary, basically, that at eight o'clock, a very honorable guest arrived. That's the famed Hasid in-- known in his righteousness and his, uh, greatness in Hasidus, uh, Reb Dovid Tzvi from Chernigov. He says, "I have a lot of delight when such a guest comes because he knows so much, and he heard many stories from his father, uh, Reb Peretz," was also called, he calls him here, we call him Reb Peretz Chernigover, he's called Reb Peretz from Vyazovkovets. It's another town, I guess, originally where he comes from. Or other call him Reb Peretz from Nevl. Uh, and also, he has heard a lot from his father. He's also heard a lot from the elder Hasidim. And in addition to that, he himself heard, saw and heard from my grandfather, which is the Rebbe Maharash, uh, actually from the Tzemach Tzedek, and from, from the Tzemach Tzedek and from the Rebbe Maharash. And also, he was close, and he also heard from my uncles, from my, uh, grandparent's uncles, the sons of the Tzemach Tzedek. So he was basically around, and the Rebbe, previous Rebbe said, "I hold dear all the history and all the stories that the Radatz would tell." 'Cause he would not only tell the story, but he would also give the explanation for the stories that he would tell. "And I'm

04:02 Speaker 1 so deeply indebted and grateful to him," the previous Rebbe writes, "for his kindness to sort of give me the attention, to bring me close, and to speak to me at all times." He would talk, converse with the, uh, previous Rebbe. So he says, "Already I've seen him for ten years. It never even happened once that he should sort of refuse me without telling me some sort of a story. So today, when I saw him, that this guest, the Radatz, was here, I was overjoyed." So this is how the previous Rebbe describes this Reb Dovid Tzvi Hein. Uh, in the year Taf Resh Peh Heh, that's approximately nineteen twenty-four, he made Aliyah to Israel, and he settled in Yerushalayim. Together with him, together with the Radatz, also went up together his son-in-law, was Reb Sholom Shlomo Schneersohn, who was a brother of the Reb Levi Yitzchak, the Rebbe's father. So the Radatz's son-in-law, uh, was a brother, was the Rebbe's uncle.

05:27 Speaker 2 So, yeah. So the-

05:28 Speaker 1 The Rebbe's uncle, the Rebbe's father's brother.

05:31 Speaker 2 Oh.

05:31 Speaker 1 Uh, and about nine months after he made Aliyah, he passed away, and he is, uh, interred in the Chabad section on the mount of, uh, on Har Hazeisim. I wondered what happened with this Reb Sholom Shlomo Schneersohn. I don't know what, uh, what the history there is. I wonder if we're going to read about that. Um, over here, I don't know. It says over here, I'm looking up over here, it says that he also passed away, uh, within a year- Of making Aliyah to Eretz Yisroel. It says here on the seventh day of Shevat in the year taf reish pei vav, uh, that he also passed away. His father-in-law, we just learned, passed away also on the, uh, 24th day of, uh, Kislev.

06:20 Speaker 2 Right.

06:20 Speaker 1 And he passed away shortly after him. He was much younger. And, um, um, it says that his daughter, his daughter, her name was Zelda Mishkovsky Schnersa, because she married-- Zelda Mishkovsky, uh, she married-- She was a daughter of the uncle. That was of the Rebbe's first cousin, the Zelda Mishkovsky. Um, you know, here we see there was-- it says no other choice, uh, because sometimes women don't say, uh, daughters don't say Kaddish, but I guess she said Kaddish over there, uh, the Zelda Mishkovsky. It says here about the Zelda Schnersa Mishkovsky, who was the first cousin of the Rebbe. Um, and, um, her mother was, as we said, her mother was Rochel, um, who was the daughter of, of the Radatz, of Reb David Tzvi Heim-

07:22 Speaker 2 Right

07:22 Speaker 1 ... as we said, because that was his father-in-law. So his mother, um, so her mother was Rochel. This Zelda's mother was Rochel, and, um, the daughter, and she married the brother of the Reb Leib, as we said. She was a famous singer, and her-- it says that her songs are, are studied in, in schools, universities, and she, she's won some, uh, some prizes over there for her, for her work. It says she married, that's the Rebbe's cousin, the Zelda, in the year taf shin yud. That was in nineteen fifty. So she married Rav Chaim Aryeh Mishkovsky, who was a son of Cheske Yosef Mishkovsky, who was of the, um, he was o-one of the rabbis in-- from Poland, and he was like, uh, like the assistant of the, of the, of the Agudas Harabonim. And he, he was a pretty, uh, a pretty, uh, interesting, um, you know, pretty important, uh, person there. Uh, he himself, he, uh, says that he finished, uh, the Yeshivas Hebron, and, uh, he was a rabbi.

08:32 Speaker 2 Can I-- I gotta-

08:32 Speaker 1 Read it again. Read it again.

08:33 Speaker 2 Okay. Um-

08:33 Speaker 1 So this is about Zelda, the Rebbe's cousin.

08:35 Speaker 2 Zelda.

08:35 Speaker 1 But apparently they did not have any children. Did they have-

08:38 Speaker 2 Uh, not really

08:39 Speaker 1 Did they have any children? Did Zelda have any children?

08:42 Speaker 2 It doesn't say.

08:43 Speaker 1 Zelda Mishko-Mishkovsky.

08:45 Speaker 2 Yeah, it was M-I-S-H-K-O-V-S-K-Y.

08:48 Speaker 1 Okay. So what does it say about her there?

08:50 Speaker 2 It says here, "Commonly known as Zelda, is a twentieth-century Israeli poet. As such, she is a rarity in having a deep and traditional faith without the doubts of irony about religion that are so common about Hebrew poets of the nineteen twenties to twenty-first century."

09:10 Speaker 1 And okay, so you can see that she comes from a very prestigious lineage. I mean, she was like a-- she's a direct descendant from the Tzemach Tzedek, from the Boruch Shalom.

09:18 Speaker 2 It says Schnersa, Shmuel Schnersa, Joseph Isaac, Shlomo Dovber, Menachem Mendel, Zelda, and the Legend of Zelda. These-

09:26 Speaker 1 But I'm talking about did they have any children. Any children?

09:28 Speaker 2 No, they don't give any-

09:29 Speaker 1 No children. I don't think there was any children there.