21 of Teves - Birth of Rebetzin Sheyna, youngest daughter of the previous Rebbe in 5644 – 1/9/1904

00:00 Speaker 1 We will start with the twenty-first day of Teves in the year Taf Reish Samech Daled. That is the twenty-one Teves in five thousand six hundred and sixty-four. Okay, so that's January ninth, nineteen oh four, is the day of the birth of the Rebbetzin Shenna. She was the, uh, youngest daughter of the Mitler Rebbe. As we had spoken, the Mitler Rebbe had three daughters. Unfortunately, this daughter perished in the Holocaust, you know, together with her husband-

00:32 Speaker 2 Oh, no

00:32 Speaker 1 ... uh, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hakohen Horenstein. Um, and, um, she was born in, in Lubavitch, in the city of Lubavitch, where so many of these great rabbis and tzadikim, especially of the Chabad, uh, dynasty, have been, uh, born. And actually, a lot, as we've learned, that even some of them who later on branched off to other, to other groups and to other Hasidim, but they have their roots in the city of Lubavitch. And as the, uh, Rebbe, uh, writes in one letter about that she was born. So here we have a couple of interesting things about the Rebbetzin. First of all, in the year Taf Reish Tsadik Beis, um, um, that is, um, when she was eighteen years old, uh, that was eighteen years later. Uh, in the year Taf Reish Tsadik Beis, um, this was already after the marriage of the Rebbe because, uh, the Rebbe got married in Taf Reish Peh Tes. This, uh, this marriage was three years after the Rebbe's marriage to the Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka. Um, so she got married on Taf Reish Tsadik Beis, and she got married to a cousin. It's actually a second cousin, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Horenstein. He was a grandson of the Rebbe Maharash because his father married a daughter of the, um, a, a, a daughter of the Rebbe Maharash. Which means, uh, the Rebbe Maharash had his son-in-law, um, Rabbi Menachem, his father, and then his, uh, daughter, um-- Then they had, they had the, um, Rabbi Menachem Mendel, they had their son,

02:23 Speaker 1 and their son married the daughter of the Mitler Rebbe. So basically, the Mitler-- the, the, uh, the Frydiker Rebbe. The previous Rebbe, Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak, was first cousins with the father, with Horenstein's father, because, uh, the previous Rebbe's-

02:40 Speaker 2 Okay, yeah. I know it

02:41 Speaker 1 ... because the previous Rebbe's, uh, father, the Rebbe Rashab, was a brother to the wife of the Horenstein, of this Horenstein's father, and then their children. Uh, uh, so the previous Rebbe was a first cousin to, uh, their son. Oh, one second. The father of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hakohen Horenstein, his father was Rabbi Moshe Horenstein, and his mother was Chaya Mushka, the daughter of the Rebbe Maharash. So Rabbi Menachem Mendel Horenstein was actually a grandson of the Rebbe Maharash. It was his mother's, Chaya Mushka's father was the Rebbe Maharash, Reb Shmuel. He married a great-granddaughter, not a granddaughter, great-granddaughter because the Rebbe Maharash's son, the Rebbe Rashab, had a son, Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak, the Frydiker Rebbe, and her, uh, and her daughter, and their daughter, the Rebbe Frydiker Rebbe's daughter, married... It's a cousin once removed, not a first and not a second cousin. It's a one-- cousin once removed. That's the way it works. Previous Rebbe with this Rebbe Menachem Mendel were first cousins because the previous Rebbe's father, the Rashab, with the Mendel's, Menachem Mendel's mother, Chaya Mushka, were brothers and sisters. They were both children of the Rebbe Maharash.

04:13 Speaker 2 Yeah.

04:13 Speaker 1 So they were first cousins, but the daughter of the Frydiker Rebbe was already once removed because she was one generation later. So there was-- she married her father's first cousin. Okay? Okay, yeah. Now, unfortunately, as mentioned earlier, after getting-- she was married to, uh, this Rebbe Menachem Mendel, to her first cousin once removed. This was in the year Taf Reish Tsadik Beis. And, um, unfortunately, they perished. And we learned earlier because Rebbe Menachem Mendel was taking care of his father, Rebbe Moshe, over there, so he didn't, he didn't leave right away. He didn't wanna leave him. And then by the time that he passed away, it was already too late, and they couldn't leave, and they, they perished. Um, but her father, uh, writes, uh, in one of his letters, he says that, uh, he writes to his daughter, he says, "My father, the Rebbe Rashab," this is her grandfather, "said about you that you have very refined, um, characteristics. You know, you have very-- and, um, which is, is a very, uh, uh, respectful, uh, description, uh, honorable description coming from my father about you. That means that, uh, it's really you're, you're special in that way." And the Rebbe related something about her when she was a child, about the Rebbetzin Shenna, that he says that one time the Rebbe Rashab said to his granddaughter, Sheindl, he said to her that she was a young child then, and he says that on Shabbos she has to do everything for the honor of Shabbos.

05:49 Speaker 1 Whatever she does, everything, everything. She has to eat for Shabbos, she has to take a walk in honor of Shabbos, and everything what she does similar, everything she does for Shabbos. So she responded, she says, "I agree for everything to do it in the honor of Shabbos. But one second, one thing I don't understand, how can you sleep in honor of Shabbos? How could you have anything in mind while you're sleeping?" Yeah, that was very good. But additional story the Rebbe said about her is that while she was young, she would cry. You know, like children, she would cry.

06:23 Speaker 2 Right.

06:23 Speaker 1 So they gave her something to calm her down. So once she would calm down, she says, "I'm letting you know that I'm not really stopping to cry. I am just making an interruption Till, till, till the next time."

06:41 Speaker 2 Yeah.

06:42 Speaker 1 And the Rebbe used this as an analogy about saying that he was in the middle of a gathering. He says, uh, they were going to continue the farbrengen. So he says, "We're not making an interruption. We're not stopping to farbreng. We're not stopping our gathering. We're just making a little interruption till the following farbrengen." And, you know, talking about this also, you know, this was the Rebbe's, uh, uh, constant, uh, reminder that we always have to cry for Mashiach and, uh, and never actually make even a hafsaka, not even to, to make a stop about it and but to constantly demand. Okay.