28 of Teves - Birth of Rebbitzin Chana, Mother of the Rebbe. In 5640 –1/12/1880

00:00 Speaker 1 May Chabad for the twenty-eighth day of Teves, and this is in the year Taf Reish Mem. So that's January 12, 1880, is the day that the Rebbetzin Chana, the righteous Rebbetzin, the mother of the Rebbe, was born. That's the year she was born. And she was born in the city of Nikolaev. Um, her father was the great, uh, uh, genius and Hasid, Reb Meir Shulem Yanovsky, who was the rav of the city of Nikolaev. And, uh, her mother's name was Re-Rebbetzin Rochel. She was the daughter of Rabbi Chassidim Yitzchak Pushnitz, who was the rav of the city of Dubrinka. And, uh, we've already discussed stuff about her life and about her, her total dedication to her husband and how she followed him, and she helped him out to the best she could under the circumstances when they-- Russian government sent him away to exile, and she tried to alleviate his, uh, difficulty to the best she can. Eventually, she did come out of Russia, and she was able to live and see her son. The Rebbe actually went to Paris when she first came out to greet her, to come and, uh, and greet her, and then she came with him over to this country. And then she was able to see, um, the Rebbe's, uh, you know, leadership and, you know, and be proud. And, uh, the Rebbe would, uh, always go and visit her and do the, uh, mitzvah of honoring one's mother to the, uh, to the utmost for all of us

01:42 Speaker 1 to, uh, to, to learn to do a little some of it. Uh, Rebbe wouldn't miss a day in which he wouldn't go to his mother, pour a cup of tea, and just, uh, uh, protected her in many other ways by not causing her any, any pain. And so she was a very, very special person, and, you know, she gave us the Rebbe, so that's, uh, says more than anything else. Yeah, what were you gonna say?

02:04 Speaker 2 Which one of his parents was a descendant of-

02:08 Speaker 1 His father. From his father's side, he was a son after a son. He comes from Reb Boruch Sholom. That's the Rebbe's father. Yeah, that's her hus- That was the husband. That was Reb Levi Yitzchak, um-

02:17 Speaker 2 Who was a descendant of one of the Rebbes

02:18 Speaker 1 ... Schneersohn. Yeah, they are. Reb Levi Yitzchak, yeah, you know, who was-- They later on, they moved. You can see these are all daughters and sons. They were all sons of rabbis of cities, and then later on, they moved to the city of, uh, of Yekatirinoslav, uh, where the Rebbe spent his, his youth after they moved over there