Teves 8 in Chabad History

00:00 Speaker 1 We're gonna do Yemei Chabad for the eighth day of Teves in the year Taf Reish Chof Alef, which is the, uh, day of passing of the Rabbonis Tzidkonis, Chaya Mushka, the wife of the Tzemach Tzedek. Um, that's December twenty-first, eighteen sixty. Yes. It's interesting that the Rebbe Rashab- Was born ... was born that year, just in, in Chof Cheshvan, just about two months before that. So that was- Uh, that's his-- That, that was his grandmother. His grandmother. Yeah, because the, uh, Maharash's mother. That was the Rebbe Maharash mother. Yeah. That was the Rebbe Maharash's- He was the seventh child though, right? Who was the seventh? Yes. The Rashab- The Maharash was the-- Rebbe Maharash was the seventh child. Seventh child. Yes. So she had seven grandchildren already, including- Oh, yeah. She had many grandchildren before that. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yes. No, but I'm saying, but she died, but she, she died in the same year now. Um, she was the wife of the Tzemach Tzedek, and we've learnt over the time, the-- We learned about three daughters of the Tzemach Tzedek that we've studied already. This was one of the daughters. This was Chaya Mushka. Uh, we, we read about one daughter that married the Cherkasser, Yaakov Yisroel from Cherkas, who was from the Reb Nachum Chernobyler, who was a student yet of the Baal Shem Tov, goes back to the Baal Shem Tov. So he, he, he goes back. So that was a, a marriage between the Mitler Rebbe, a mechutan became with the

01:31 Speaker 1 Chernobyler dynasty. Uh, so that was one daughter married. Uh, another daughter we learned was Menuchah Rochel. She married this Yaakov Cholo Slonim, who eventually made Aliyah to Eretz Yisroel, and that was the seed for the Chabad in Hebron. And then we also learn about the Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, which was also the daughter of the Tzemach Tzedek, of the Mitler Rebbe, and she married the Tzemach Tzedek. So these were, uh, all daughters. These three that we discussed. Uh, there's other children, but the-- so far that we've discussed is these three daughters that are prominent in this sense that, uh, the families that they married, the Slonim, Yaakov Cholo Slonim family in Israel, and then you have the Chernobyler family, and then eventually their children married back. Uh, the Rebbe Rashab's wife was a daughter of... Uh, actually, uh, the Tzemach Tzedek's son, Reb Yosef Yitzchak, ended up marrying his cousin. Remember? Because the Tzemach Tzedek's son, Reb Yosef Yitzchak, uh, he ended up marrying, uh, the, the daughter of, of, of, of, of, of, uh, of Reb Yaakov Yisroel of Cherkas, who was, was his first cousin because the Tzemach Tzedek, the Tzemach Tzedek's wife, we're talking about Chaya Mushka now, right? Yeah. And, uh, and, and her sister, uh, married-- The Tzemach Tzedek's wife married Tzemach Tzedek, and her sister married Reb Yaakov Yisroel of Cherkas. So-- And, and, and their daughter ended up marrying the Rebbe Mahara-- uh, the, uh, brother of the Rebbe Maharashev, Yosef Yitzchak, a son of the Tzemach Tzedek. So-

03:36 Speaker 1 And she married- The, the, the two sisters, two sisters, so one of them had a son, which was the son of the Tzemach Tzedek, was Reb, was Reb Yosef Yitzchak. That was one son. And the other sister had a daughter and, and, and, and they married each other, so that was the Rebbe Maharash. And then eventually, uh, uh, uh, not-- That was Reb Yosef Yitzchak. So the Tzemach Tzedek's son or his wife's son, same, because two sisters. You got mixed up. All I remember is at the cemetery- This was-- Yeah ... the previous Rebbe's grandma-- mother was a descendant of the Tzemach Tzedek. Yes. That you remember correctly. I can't remember what you- Shterna Sara. Right. Shterna Sara. The Rebbetzin Shterna Sara, who was the mother-- who was the wife of the Rebbe Rashab. Right. The previous Rebbe's mother. Right. The wife of the Rebbe Rashab. She comes from that lineage. Right. Because she, her, her mother, her mother was the daughter of the Tzemach Tzedek, of the, of the Mitler Rebbe. Isn't that with Mushka? Yes. That's the-- that's it right here. So you have the Shterna Sara was, uh, was the daughter of Chana, and her mother, Shterna Sara was daughter of Chana, and her mother was the daughter of the Mitler Rebbe. Thank you, sir. Of Yisroel-- uh, sister-in-law. Okay. But let's go, instead of going to getting confused, let's stick to today's, today's, today's piece over here. Um, so she, uh, the Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, the wife of the Tzemach Tzedek,

05:33 Speaker 1 she passed away on the eighth day of Teves in the year Taf Reish Chaf Alef, as we said. Now, we're gonna talk a little bit about this Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka. Um, she was born, uh, to the Mitler Rebbe, and the Mitler Rebbe's wife was Rebbetzin Shenah. She was, she was Shenah. So the Mitler Rebbe was the son of the Alter Rebbe. And the Mitler Rebbe married Shayna, and they had this daughter, Chaya Mushka, as well as the other daughters that we port-po-uh, that we talked, that we talked about. She was born in the year Taf Kuf Nun in the city of Lyozno. Now remember, the-- through seventeen eighty-nine, so she lived about from Taf Kuf Nun to Taf Reish. She lived about for seventy years, seventy-one years. That's what she lived for. But first, remember, which was-- which year did you say it was in English? Seventeen eighty-nine. Seventeen eighty-nine. The Alter Rebbe originally lived in the city of Lyozno, and then eventually after the second arrest, if you remember, in the year Taf Kuf Samech Alef. In Taf Kuf Nun he was arrested the first time, that's nine years later, and then another two years later, he was arrested in Taf Kuf Samech Alef again, and then he went out on the third or the fifth day of Hanukkah. And then they had the Alter Rebbe move to the city of Liadi. But she was born yet in Lyozno while the Alter Rebbe lived in Lyozno. And in the year Taf Kuf Samech Daled,

07:12 Speaker 1 um, she was fourteen years old at the time. She got married. Today it would be against the law, but, uh, I think in Israel, they just passed a law that you can only get married at eighteen. Now they just, uh, I think they passed it, 'cause in a lot of Chabad communities especially it's, uh- They get married very young. They get married very young. So in the year Taf Kuf Samech Daled, uh, she g-- she married her cousin, the Tzemach Tzedek, as we said, because the Devorah Leah, the Devorah Leah and the Mitler Rebbe were brothers and sister. Okay? They were first cousins. Uh, so he married the daughter of Devorah Leah, Chaya Mushka, who was- First cousin. Um, yeah, it was first, uh, it was, um- The first cousins. It was first cousins. Um, so Chaya Mushka was first cousins with the Tzemach Tzedek because Chaya Mushka was the daughter of the Mitler Rebbe, and the Tzemach Tzedek was the son of her s- of her-- of his sister. His sister, Devorah Leah, was the sister of the Mitler Rebbe. And Devorah Leah and Tzemach Tzedek, they got married, uh, when she was fourteen years old. Now the Rebbe Rashab relates that the Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka would say a lot of Tehillim every day. Uh, one day the Tzemach Tzedek told his sons, he had seven sons, the Tzemach Tzedek told his sons, that was their mother, their mother was Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka. She told them that the-- "Do you know that the success

08:47 Speaker 1 that I had in Petersburg..." Because the-- there was a whole big problem because the government wanted to get involved in Jewish education, and they wanted to change things around. And as we learned, the Tzemach Tzedek was arrested. Twenty-two times he was arrested. And we learned also in the Yom Yom, it says that they told the Tzemach Tzedek, "You know that you're rebelling against the government." And he answered, "So what's worse, to rebel against the government of this world or against-- rebelling against the government of Hashem? What's more?" And he, and he, he stood very, very, very, very, very strong. But he was protected. He says, "The reason I was protected, that was the Tehillim that your mother said." That his wife said, that the Tehillim that the Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka said. And, um, in the beginning, after she, uh, got married, her grandfather, the Tzemach Tzedek-- the Alter Rebbe, because that was her, uh, that was her father's, her father's father. Father. Father's father. The Mitler Rebbe's father, the Alter Rebbe, asked her to bring to him... We wr-- I think we read this story elsewhere before. She asked him to bring several writings of the Tzemach Tzedek. Now, the Tzemach Tzedek wrote and was a, a, a very privileged to be able to study with the Alter Rebbe. The Alter Rebbe took him in because his mother, basically Devorah Leah, the, the Tzemach Tzedek's mother, basically, um, uh, took him in after his mother gave up his life for the Alter Rebbe. As we

10:26 Speaker 1 learned the story that she, uh, the Alter Rebbe was, uh, about to pass away. She sort of substituted for the Alter Rebbe, as we learned that story. And the Alter Rebbe told her that he's gonna take care of her son, of the Tzemach Tzedek, which he did. You know, we learned about him taking him into cheder and, and he gave him all the attention. But he was a, a, a, a, a brilliant and, uh, a great, uh, uh, scholar, and he, he, he had, you know, uh, tremendous abilities, and he wrote very scholarly things. So the Alter Rebbe-- But he was very modest, so I guess he didn't wanna show off what he wrote, and he wouldn't just go ahead and show it to his, to his grandfather. That's his... In the Tzemach Tzedek's case, it would be his mother's father. Okay? Devorah Leah was his mother. He didn't wanna show it, but the Alter Rebbe had his other granddaughter, that's his wife. She-- He asked her to bring some of his writings to her. Uh, after the Alter Rebbe looked into the writings of the Tzemach Tzedek, he crol- called his brother, Reb Yehuda Leib. That was the brother of the Alter Rebbe, the Maharil. And he also called the Chassid Reb Pinchas Reizes. As we learned, they were two great Chassidim, and their mother, Reize, was from the Misnagdim, from Shklov. She made a lot of tzoros to her son-in-laws until she had to promise when, uh, her, um, her daughter, uh, had

12:00 Speaker 1 a hard time giving birth, and she promised that she's not gonna bother them anymore, as we learned before. So- So this Pinchas raises, he called them, and he told them, "You know, I have to make a blessing of Shehecheyanu. I have to make the blessing Shehecheyanu. You know, you make the blessing Shehecheyanu when something very joyous, something very happy takes place in your life. And I'm gonna make the bracha Shehecheyanu, I want you to answer Amen." And he related to them about those pamphlets that he-- that his granddaughter, that's the wife of the Tzemach Tzedek, has brought to him from her husband. And there was the ma'amar in today, we have the Shoresh Mitzvot Tefillah, which is a ma'amar which is studied. There's a book of the Tzemach Tzedek called the Derech Mitzvotecha, The Ways of Your Mitzvahs, in which he gives a inner explanation of various different mitzvahs of the Torah, explaining the different mitzvahs, organized by the mitzvah. A very profound and a very, uh, uh, intellectual dissertation over there. It's explanations in various... In Kabbalah, Hasidus, and explain the Chakir in all different parts. So he was so excited, the Alter Rebbe, when he saw this. But the Hasidim in the meantime, word went out, you know, I guess that the Alter Rebbe blessed Shehecheyanu. So the Hasidim started to give honor to the Tzemach Tzedek, that if the Alter Rebbe makes the Shehecheyanu on the writings of the Tzemach Tzedek, they started giving him honor. And when the Tzemach Tzedek was--

13:44 Speaker 1 found out about this, what's going on, he was very, um... Became very emotionally, uh, upset about this. And in a moment of weakness, of anger, he was so upset that his wife took without his permission, and she took his writings to her grandfather, that in a moment of anger, he said that he's going to divorce her because she did it without his permission. She went and she took his, his things without his permission. So the Ra-- the Rebbetzin, she argued that she's obligated to honor her grandfather. And the honor of a, uh, grandfather is even greater than the honor of a father. But the Tzemach Tzedek argued, he says, no, he has to study through the Halakha, and since he is upset with her, he cannot... Right now, he can't live with her. When the Alter Rebbe, you know, heard about this, so his grandfather, he called the Tzemach Tzedek, and he told him, "In order to get you to totally, uh, forgive, so you should have no hard feeling against your wife, and not only that you should not have any hard feeling, but you should rejoice with her, I'm going to go and make a havrusa, a study session with you personally. Uh, from now on, in the time that I'm at home, I will study with you personally. And that shiur will be twice a week, we'll study the revealed part of the Torah, and three times a week, I will review before y-you those ma'amarim that I've said, discourses, Hasidic, uh,

15:38 Speaker 1 discourses that I've said already in the past, and also explain to you some of the teachings that I've received from my teachers." And the Alter Rebbe added, "May it be fulfilled by you the verse that it says that," quoted the verse over there, "that the plantings that you plant should be sweet, and they should be prosperous, and your children should blossom." The Alter Rebbe leaned on his hands in sort of in a trance as he would, like, go up into spiritual levels. He gave a sigh, a big sigh, and he concluded. He says-- And he said, "Nod katzir beyom nechlah u'keiv enesh." So, um, the, um, the, um, the verse that says that nod is fifty-four, um, the number fifty-four, as we'll see. It says in a day, uh, that a person gets sick. There's like a verse representing, uh, a person's demise. He gave a big sigh, and that was the end of the story. Nobody really knew what the meaning, what the sigh was all about. Many years passed by. On the eve of the Shabbos, the portion of Vayigash in the year taf res hof alef, as we're talking about now, before Parshas Vayigash, the Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka passed away on Motzei Shabbos. When the Rebbe Maharash, that's the wife of the Tzemach Tzedek. When the Rebbe Maharash went into his father, the Tzemach Tzedek, he saw that the Tzemach Tzedek was very, very emotional, very charged, emotionally charged. Tzemach Tzedek says that, "The holy words of my grandfather, of the Alter

17:37 Speaker 1 Rebbe, have been fulfilled." Because the Alter Rebbe said in the year taf kuf tzadik zayin, that was the year that that incident took place. And if you think about it, is, um, um, that was, um, just trying to, um, get, uh, how many years were they married by then? Um, so we said that they got married in taf kuf nun. So this was already, um, like seventeen years after their marriage, uh- Uh, this was Taf kuf Samech Zayin, so that, that's when the incident happened. So he says, in that year, um, that, um, that this happened, that was Taf kuf Samech Zayin, and he said the words when he sighed, "Neit kat sir." The word fifty-four. He says fifty-four years have passed from that time till today. And he says, uh, "Now I understand why my grandfather gave us such a sigh at that point." Um, at that point, from that point on, from the year Taf Reish Chaf Alef, from that year on, um, the Tzemach Tzedek, um, stopped, uh, teaching, uh, uh, stopped taking, uh, in seeing people. He said that, "My world has become darkened for me." And he said to his children, he says, "Till now, you had a mother in this world, and now you have a mother in Gan Eden. But I miss her." That's what he said. And, um, after she passed away, the Tzemach Tzedek stopped seeing per, people personally for yehidut by saying that, "Right now, I'm without etza." In the Gemara it says, etza, without

19:38 Speaker 1 advice. I don't have my advisor, so basically, he stopped seeing people in yehidut. And, um, see now the Tzemach Tzedek lived till the year Taf Kuf, uh, Mem Tes, he lived. Uh, uh, no, what am I talking about? He used to live Taf Reish Chaf Vav. So he passed away, uh, he passed away, uh, five years later. Taf, from Taf Reish Chaf Alef to Taf Reish Chaf Vav. Tzemach Tzedek passed away five years after, after the Rebbetzin, after his Rebbetzin, after the Chaya Mushka. It's interesting also to note, you know, we, we already spoke about it, the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin had the same names as the Tzemach Tzedek and his wife, Menachem Mendel and Chaya Mushka. And actually, after the Rebbetzin passed away, and I hate to say there's also similarity in the difference of the years between, uh, after the passing of, between the Rebbetzin who passed away in, in, uh, in, uh, in Taf Re-- in Taf Shin Mem Ches to the time. It's also about the same, same period of time in the distance in the time. Um, and the Rebbe also stopped, basically after the passing of the Rebbetzin, he stopped seeing people individually for- Reb Schneur Zalman Yeah, I'm talking about the Rebbe, our Rebbe. He stopped, from that point on, he stopped seeing, very similar to that. Uh, he would see dollars and he would see people as groups, but I have to look exactly the history. It's not-- I'm not sure exactly, but there's a certain point

21:19 Speaker 1 definitely after the passing of the Rebbetzin, there was like a, a change, you know, as the, uh, as the, uh, as in this case. Um, it says like this. We find, um, um, something very, uh, special about the Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, that she is surrounded in all sides. She has, uh, Rebbes. Chabad Rebbes are on every side. She has Rebbes. Why? First of all, she was the wife of a Rebbe, so she was the wife of the Tzemach Tzedek, so he was the third Lubavitcher Rebbe. She was also the daughter of a Rebbe 'cause she was the daughter of the Mitler Rebbe because the Mitler Rebbe was her father, so she's a daughter of a Rebbe. She's also a granddaughter from a Rebbe because the-- on both sides. Her mother, her, uh, mother's father and her, uh, father's father, I mean, uh, uh, were both, um, grandchildren. She was a grandchild from the, uh, from, from the Alter Rebbe. Alter Rebbe. Yeah. Her mother, uh, her mother was a, um, um, a daughter of the Alter Rebbe. And, um, and, uh, and so she-- No, so she was a granddaughter of the Alter Rebbe because of her, of her mother's, uh, of her mother's father. Uh, no, uh, because of her father's father, because the Alter Rebbe was her father's father, was the Mitler Rebbe's father. Uh, of course, her father, father, she was a granddaughter of the Rebbe. Um, now she was the Rebbe of, of her son, was the Rebbe Maharash, and, uh,

23:07 Speaker 1 she was the grandmother of the Rebbe Rashab, and she was the great-grandmother of the Friediker Rebbe, and she was also the grandmother's grandmother of the, uh, of the Rebbe. Wow.

23:24 Speaker 2 You said that-

23:25 Speaker 1 Why? Because the, her, her oldest son, Chaya Mushka's oldest son was Baruch Shalom, and Baruch Shalom is also a direct line from the Rebbe. The Rebbe comes from the Baruch Shalom too, so she's also a, uh, a grandmother, grandmother also from the Rebbe. So she is actually, um, connected to Rebbes on all, on all sides. Um, she passed away, um, on Friday. It said on Erev Shabbos Parshat Vayigash, the eighth of Teves in the year Taf Reish Chaf Alef, and she is interred-- she was interred, and her resting place is in Lubavitch together with the, uh, place, the Ohel of her grandmother, the Rebbetzin Stirna, the mo-- the wife of the Alter Rebbe, and her mother, uh, the Rebbetzin Shenna, which was the wife of the Mitler Rebbe. So the Mitler Rebbe's, uh, wife as well as the Alter Rebbe's wife, as well as the Tzemach Tzedek's wife, uh, are all in that same place in the city, the town of Lubavitch. Uh-huh. Now we have another entry here. There's another entry here for the eighth day of Teves, and this is in the year of Taf Reish Nun Vav. Um, eighth Teves, Taf Reish Nun Vav. That's December twenty-fifth on 1895. Okay. That was the day of the passing of the Rebbe of... Named, he was not a Chabad Rebbe, but he was a Rebbe, Nachum Duber, who was the son of Reb Yosef Yitzchak of Overtch, who was the son of the Tzemach Tzedek. we said before, Reb Yosef Yitzchak of Obruch ended

25:21 Speaker 1 up, uh, he was the son of the Tzemach Tzedek, but he ended up marrying in a different dynasty, uh, in the, uh, Cherkassor dynasty from the Chernobyler because the Cherkassor took this Reb Yosef Yitzchak as a son-in-law. And, um, and eventually, this Reb Yosef Yitzchak led his Chasidis like Polisha as we, as we learned, uh, earlier. But the-- his son, Reb Yosef Yitzchak's son of Obruch, uh, I'm not, I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing it correctly, his name was Nachum Duber, and he passed away on the eighteenth of Teves. He was born in the city of Lubavitch in the year Tet Reish Beis. These people all come because they come with the Tzemach Tzedek, so they all come from the city of Lubavitch. He was the youngest son of his father, Reb Yosef Yitzchak of Obruch, who was again, he was the son, son of the Tzemach Tzedek. After his father passed away, Reb Yosef Yitzchak, the Nachum Duber became the Rebbe in the city of Obruch. And as we learned, this Nachum Duber was the brother of the Rebbetzin Sterna Sara, who was the wife of the Rebbe Rashab because-- So one-- because as we learned before, the Rebbe Rashab married also his cousin because, uh, the Rebbe Maharash and his brother, right, Yosef Yitzchak, Reb Shmuel, the Rebbe Maharash, and his brother, Reb Yosef Yitzchak, right? So the Rebbe Maharash's son, which was the Rebbe Rashab, married the daughter of his, uh, father's brother, Reb Yosef Yitzchak's daughter, and, um, her name was

27:12 Speaker 1 Sterna Sara. And this Sterna Sara, uh-- So the Rebbe Rashab married his cousin. And, um, and this was the Rebbe Nachum Duber. Uh, in one of the Sichas, the, uh, Rebbe, the Prizhiker Rebbe relates about his uncle, Reb Nachum Duber, uh- What's a Sichas? Because the, the-- That's in the talks, one of the talks. So he- Discussion. Discussion, yeah. So he, he talked about his uncle, Reb Nachum Duber. No. How is it-- Nachum Duber was, Nachum Duber was, um... Oh, because Nachum Duber was his mother's brother, right? Sterna Sara's brother, Sterna Sara's brother. Brother's. Rashab's-- Uh, the, the Prizhiker Rebbe's uncle because it was the Prizhiker Rebbe's mother's brother. Sterna Sara and Nachum Duber were both the sons, children of Reb Yosef Yitzchak of Obruch, who was the son of the Tzemach Tzedek. His uncle. So that was his uncle. So he said like this, "In the Shabbos Kodesh in Shlach Tet Reish Nun Alef, my uncle, Rav Tzaddik Nachum Duber, nishmata hadin." Um, so he came, so he came to visit. So he came to his brother-in-law. He came to the Rebbe Rashab. He came to visit to the Rebbe Rashab. So my father told me that your uncle, Reb Nachum Duber, is a true humble person, and he's a true person with a broken heart in real, real genuine truthfully. So one of the weekdays when I went, uh, on the-- It was the second, uh, two-- it looked like two o'clock. I went from the cheder, from the place study. I went

29:01 Speaker 1 to our house for lunch. I entered into the sh-shul, and that was called the Kleiner Saal. It's called the small shul. It was like the big one that was like a little, uh, small shul, a weekday shul, or maybe a Malchama shul. And I was, uh, astound by the sight because Reb Duber, who was the father of Mendel the Meshars, it was Mendel the attendant, he would see to it. He was standing, and he was leaning on the table that you read from, Shul Machria, and he's saying to him, "And my uncle, Reb Nachum Duber, is standing on the southern wall. He's facing north. He's looking at this Duber, who was a-- just a very simple, just a simple person. He was a Yishuvnik who lived in a village, a villager who really was very, very unlearned. He was just a very simple person. And he was looking at him, and he looked in-- He looked like he was in pain mixed with jealousy. And he was-- Tears were coming down of his eyes. And when I came home, I told my father what I just saw when I was coming. This Rebbe Rashab was, uh, Tet Reish Nun Alef. Rebbe Rashab was eleven years old then. You know, he was born in Tet Reish Mem. He was eleven years old. So I told him that-- So my father said that my brother-in-law, Reb Nachum Duber, is jealous, he's envious of this Reb Duber the Yishuvnik, this Yishuvnik. He sees how he's saying to Tehillim

30:56 Speaker 1 with such fervor, with such honesty, with such sincerity, with such simplicity. So he, this great tzaddik, and learned, and, and scholar is envious of that simple person serving Hashem with his heart, with the truth. Uh, during the last months of his life, he got sick and he went to the city of Kyiv, and, um, they made a, an operation for him over there, but several days later he passed away, and his resting place is in the city, si-- in the city of Kyiv. That's where his, uh, resting place is. So this is, um, a little bit another piece to the history that we saw, uh, on the Rebbetzin Sterna Sara. We saw over there, uh, at the Ohel, and over there we also read-- Whatever it says there applies to him as well. Besides, she was a wife... Sterna Sara was the wife of the Rebbe Rashab. But the lineage coming from Reb Yosef Yitzchak, who was a son of the Tzemach Tzedek, and also Reb Yosef Yitzchak's wife, who is a daughter of the Mitteler Rebbe's-- a daughter of the Mitteler Rebbe's daughter. Because the Mitteler Rebbe's daughter, as we said, also had, um, married Reb Yosef Yitzchak of Obrach that came-- That gives you the lineage. The whole thing is, is over there on that, on that tombstone. And, you know, these, these are the great tzaddikim that are, um, and tz'dekaniot, rebbetzins, and, and, and, and rebbes. And, um, I guess, um, we, uh, should look up to them and see how

32:42 Speaker 1 sometimes even just simple service, you don't have to... This was actually what the Baal Shem Tov, um, taught, that it's not always how much you know, and it's not always how much you're able to, um, I guess, to use your intellect and your emotions, but it's mostly about your simplicity. It's about your serving Hashem.

33:09 Speaker 3 Humbleness.

33:09 Speaker 1 You know, humbleness and, and sincerity. I guess it's the genuine sincerity to serve Hashem. And you can sometimes reach much higher places and greater places when you serve Hashem with your, uh, true, true and a genuine heart. You wanted to say something?

33:29 Speaker 3 Um, the Rebbe's father came to America. Is that why the Rebbe came in the nineteen-ties?

33:35 Speaker 1 The Rebbe's father did not come to America.

33:37 Speaker 3 No, he stayed. Was he the-- Then was the Rebbe the first one to come to America?

33:40 Speaker 1 The Rebbe's father-in-law came to America.

33:44 Speaker 3 Oh, it was the father-in-law.

33:45 Speaker 1 The Rebbe's father-in-law. The Rebbe's father, the Rebbe's, uh, father passed away in... He was exiled, and then later on he passed away over there while under exile.

33:54 Speaker 3 It was, it was strange. Oh, yeah. The Rebbe's father-in-law was the sixth Rebbe.

33:57 Speaker 1 The sixth Rebbe. And we had was the Rebbe.

33:58 Speaker 3 So was he the first one to come to America?

34:00 Speaker 1 Yes.

34:01 Speaker 3 So the graves you're visiting are the people that eventually came here and then passed away.

34:06 Speaker 1 Of course. The, the, the people who's here, yeah.

34:08 Speaker 3 No one was moved from- No, no ... Pshevorgel to here.

34:11 Speaker 1 No, no.

34:11 Speaker 3 No, it says online that the-