23 of Teves -Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Siratin in 5665 – 12/31/1904

00:00 Speaker 1 Due to the Chabad for the twenty-third day of Teves. Uh, this is in the year Taf Res Samech Hey, which is-- that's, um, uh, five six six five, the twenty-third day of Teves, is the Yahrtzeit of the Rebbe, um, Levi Yitzchok of Siratin, who was the son-in-law of the Admor Chaim Schneur Zalman of Liadi. December thirty-first, nineteen oh four.

00:31 Speaker 2 Same as yesterday.

00:32 Speaker 1 Uh, he was, uh-

00:34 Speaker 2 Yesterday

00:34 Speaker 1 ... was the son of the Tzemach Tzedek. As we saw-- said, said many times, the Tzemach Tzedek had seven sons, and these seven sons are also, um, the heads of certain dynasties, and some of them went outside of Chabad, uh, not necessarily the Chabad branch of Hasidis. And, um, he, this Levi Yitzchok, whose Yahrtzeit is on the twenty-third day of Teves in Taf Res Samech Hey, uh, Levi Yitzchok's from Siratin. That's the name of the city they called it. Um, he was actually born in Warsaw.

01:10 Speaker 2 Yes, sir.

01:10 Speaker 1 And he was in the family of the Rebbe of Radzymin. It was a, that was a Hasidic sect, and he was the, um, and he was a son of that, uh, of that group. But after his, uh, wife passed away, uh, this, uh, Levi Yitzchok's wife passed away, the Chaim Schneur Zalman, that was the son of the Tzemach Tzedek, took him as a, um, for his daughter. So he married Reb Chaim Schneur Zalman's daughter, and he made a condition with him before the marriage. He said to him conditionally that he has to remain in the city of Lubavitch. Um, this was in Liadi, sorry. This was before Lubavitch. This was still-- They were still ab-abso-- Um, they were... I shouldn't say still. What am I saying still? No, but they lived, this Reb Chaim Schneur Zalman, uh, he lived in the city of Liadi. Liadi was the city where his grandfather, the Alter Rebbe, originally lived. After the second imprisonment, he moved from Lyozno to Liadi. But he, Reb Chaim Schneur Zalman, went back to his grandfather's place to, to Liadi. We also talked about him earlier. He was named after his grandfather also, Schneur Zalman. Um, and he was very, um, he was very close with his grandfather. And after his grandfather, um, after the Alter Rebbe passed away and everybody moved to Lubavitch, he went back to the city of Liadi, and he conditioned with, uh, with him, um, not to go back to Poland. He says, he says to remain, and if

03:00 Speaker 1 he's gonna be a son-in-law, he's gonna remain in Liadi. Um, and he held him, his father-in-law held him very dear, and he used to teach him the Hasidis Chabad because he was a son of the Tzemach Tzedek. He used to teach his son-in-law for many hours. And, um, after his father-in-law passed away, so I guess the condition was for as long as he lived, he had to stay with him. But after he passed away, he settled in the city of Siratin, and then he became a, a Rebbe over there. He, uh, he still, I, I think, became a Rebbe because he, he followed, I guess, in his... I'm not sure exactly, uh, what kind of a tish, they say. They call it a tish. What kind of a table he used to, he used to run. But it says here that many of Chabad people would, uh, go to this Levi Yitzchok of Siratin. Um, seems like because of all the teachings of the Hasidis that his father-in-law taught him, he probably picked up some of the Chabad, the Hasidis, and therefore many of the, uh, Chabad would go to him. And towards the end of his life, he returned to Warsaw. As we said that he was in the beginning, he started out in Warsaw. He was born to the family of Radzymin. He returned to Warsaw. And over there, and over there, he, he's passed away on the third day of Teves in Taf Res Samech Hey, and his resting place is in

04:30 Speaker 1 Warsaw. Radzymin is a suburb of, of Warsaw. It's right outside of Warsaw.

04:35 Speaker 2 Yeah.

04:35 Speaker 1 Okay.

04:35 Speaker 2 Let me just look up