3 Cheshvan 5627 (October 12, 1866) – Yahrzeit of the Maharil of Kapust, Son of the Tzemach Tzedek

00:00 Day Chabad of Gimel Marcheshvan, the third day of Cheshvan in the year Taf Res Chav Zion. Um, now again, Taf Res Chav Zion is, um, some, uh, one hundred and fifty years ago, okay? One hundred and fifty years ago. Excuse me. Um, a-a-around. It's not quite, uh, because, uh, we're an ayin-- Dalet Ayin Zion would make it one hundred and fifty years ago. So what are you reading? This what you now- This is a Yemei Chabad. This is the Chabad history. It's a Chabad history, yeah. But it's, it's available online, and it's, uh- It's in English ... it gives you the story of, uh, of the Chabad's, of the Chabad history. Now, and every day it has a different, uh, a different part to it. Um, so today we're learning that this day was the passing of the Maharil from Kapust, the Yehuda Leib. In short, called the Maharil, from the city of Kupu-Kapust, who was the son of the Tzemach Tzedek. Now, we mentioned many times the Tzemach Tzedek had seven sons. Each one of them eventually became a, a, a leader, uh, moved-- Some of them moved, moved away from the city of Lubavitch, where they were all born to the Tzemach Tzedek. And the follower who continued the Chabad Hasidis was the Rebbe Maharash, based on the instruction of his father, the Tzemach Tzedek. He remained in Lubavitch, and the Rebbe Maharash, Reb Shmuel, he is the one that continued the Hasidic dynasty of the Lubavitch Rebbe. Now, the Rebbe Maharil, he

01:44 was born-- He was the second son of the, uh, of the Tzemach Tzedek, our Menachem Mendel, the third Lubavitch Rebbe, and he was born in the year Taf Kuf Samech Ches, he was born. And, you know, that was, um, that's just over two hundred years ago, uh, two hundred and five years ago, uh, two hundred and six years ago. How far back does this book go? Uh, it tells the Chabad Hasidis basically, so it goes back for two hundred and, uh, couple hundred years, uh, ago, okay? Do they have it in here you can look at too, or- Yeah, you-- There's probably must be an English version of it here too. I'm reading the Hebrew version of it. Yeah. Okay. He was the second son of the Tzemach Tzedek and the Alter Rebbe, that was his great-grandfather- Yeah ... uh, was his sandek. Yeah. Uh, he, uh, held the baby while during his bris. The Alter Rebbe known raised basically the Tzemach Tzedek, as we've read earlier, and because his mother died and he raised and, and then his son, uh, Reb Yehuda Leib, he was a sandek, the Alter Rebbe. The Alter Rebbe passed away like five years later in Taf Kuf Ayin Gimel. He passed away five years later. Why do they call him Alter Rebbe? Other Rebbe- The Old Rebbe because that was the-- At the time he was the Old Rebbe. There was- Old Rebbe ... three Rebbes. The Old Rebbe. There was the Mitteler Rebbe, the Middle Rebbe, and the

03:13 Tzemach Tzedek, and that name stuck to the Alter Rebbe- Right ... as the Old Rebbe. Okay? And he was very, very close and loved and tied to his grandfather. That's the Mitteler Rebbe. That's the second, the Middle Rebbe, the second Rebbe, Reb Dov Ber, the son of the Alter Rebbe, who was his grandfather. He was his grandfather because, um, the, um, the daughter of the, um, the daughter of the, uh, of, of the Mitteler Rebbe married the Tzemach Tzedek. Okay? The Tzemach Tzedek married-- His father married his cousin. Okay? He, he lost- His father, who was the son of the Mitteler Rebbe... I'm sorry. No. I confused it. Yeah. Uh, I confused it. His... Yeah, his, his, his father was-- No, I didn't confuse it. His father was the Tzemach Tzedek, who was the son-in-law of the Mitteler Rebbe. Son-in-law. So the Middle Rebbe, Dov Ber- Had a daugh ... right, had a daughter who married the Tzemach Tzedek. The Tzemach Tzedek himself was a son of the Mitteler Rebbe's sister. The Mitteler Rebbe-- We went through this. The Mitteler Rebbe had a sister named Dvora Leah. Yeah. The Alter Rebbe had two children. He had more, but I'm saying he had a daughter, for, for our sake now, for the Tzemach Tzedek's sake, let's just think about it. The Alter Rebbe had two children. He had more, but the two-- He had a son who was the Mitteler Rebbe, Dov Ber, and had a daughter, Dvora Leah. Right. Okay? Now, the Mitteler, the Mitteler

05:04 Rebbe had a daughter, and the Mitteler Rebbe's sister had a son. They're married first cousins. They were first cousins, and they married. Say that again, first cousins. The Mitteler Rebbe's- Had a daughter ... had a-- The Mitteler Rebbe had a daughter. Yeah. And the Mitteler Rebbe's sister, Dvora Leah, had a son. Right. And that son and daughter got married. That son and daughter, the son was the Tzemach-- The, the, uh, the son of the Dvora Leah, of the Mitteler Rebbe's sister's son, his name was Menachem Mendel. He became the Rebbe afterwards. From the father. And his, his wife was the daughter of the Mitteler Rebbe. Do that one more time. The Mitteler Rebbe Okay. Yeah. It's- Okay, one second. One second. We're going to Europe. The Mitteler Rebbe- Had a daughter The, the Alter Rebbe had a daughter and a son. The daughter was Devorah Leah. And the son was the Mitler Rebbe. The son was the Mitler Rebbe, was Dov Ber. Got that. And Dov Ber's daughter- Right ... married his- His sister ... sister's son. First cousins. They were first cousins. Yeah. His name was the Tzemach Tzedek. Right. So he was the son-in-law. So now their child, right? Became the Rebbe. Their child of the Tzemach Tzedek was the-- one of the children, he had seven sons, the Tzemach Tzedek, and that son was named-- Her name was the Tzemach Tzedek's wife's name was Chaya Mushka. Yeah. Okay? Tzemach Tzedek's wife. Yeah. Her name was Chaya Mushka. And so Menachem Mendel married

06:54 Chaya Mushka, right? So Chaya Mushka and Menachem Mendel, the Tzemach Tzedek and his wife, had seven sons. So the Maharil, who was the second son, Yehuda Leib, his grandfather, his mother's father was the Mitler Rebbe. Right. Okay, let's just continue here because we're not gonna finish. Are we okay? It's, it's very common. And he was very tied to him, and he held him very dear, and he would actually wait for him before he would give Hasidic a discourse. He would wait for his grandson. He would wait for the Maharil, for Yehuda Leib. The Rebbe Rashab, which is the son of the Rebbe Maharash, that was the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, the Rebbe Rashab. His father, the Maharash, was the seventh son. The Maharash was the fourth Lubavitcher Rebbe. The Rebbe Rashab, Sholom Dov Ber, was the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe. He related that the, uh, Mitler Rebbe would refer to his grandson, to the Maharil, as his standard. A standard is a, uh, standard, what you lean on. Why? Because he would lean on him when he would say Hasidus, he would lean on, on him. And it's related at some point that he was one time over him for eighteen hours. They were like, uh- Um, you know, together in, in such a situation. And that's how, uh, special. His father, the Tzemach Tzedek, would hold him very dear, the Maharil. And he would instruct him to recite Hasidus in front of the, uh, Hasidim, and also to respond to their questions that they would ask.

08:38 He would tell his son, the Tzemach Tzedek, the Maharil, to do so. And he was, you know, very, uh, un- dedicated and totally disconnected from anything physical of this world. He was like a- Who was the- This Maharil, the grandson and the son of whose Yahrtzeit is on the third day of Cheshvan. Um, and what happened was that, um, the children of the Tzemach Tzedek originally, um, they were in business. They had partners with some other business people. And, uh, the Maharil, the Yehuda Leib, the second, and they would be in business, and they had partnerships, and they would do business. And, uh, he had a business with somebody who dealt with horses. So, uh, and one time, the Maharil made a calculation. He went through the, uh, uh, Cheshbonos, you know, how much they earned or not. And, uh, when he came to the total, so he says, "What is the total number?" He ended up with the words, "Leis asar," uh, "ponime." He wrote, "There is no space which is empty from Hashem." He wanted to write a number, and he basically, instead of writing a number, he, he sort of came up with an idea. What is the total? The total is that Hashem is everywhere. That's the total, actual total of everything. Not, not the total of his accounting is- Right ... there is nothing besides Hashem. That's not what he... Uh, he wanted to write a number, but that was what came through him. Several months after his father passed

10:23 away, uh, which is the Tzemach Tzedek passed away in Taf Res Chav Rov, that was on the thirteenth day of Nisan, of Taf Res Chav Rov, he left the city of Lubavitch. Who's- The Maharil, Rabbi Yehuda Leib. And he sat, and he settled in the city of Kopust. The city of Kopust, and he became a Rebbe over there. However, his leadership was only for a very short time, for two months. Only two months. Uh, that was the months of Elul. Uh, only for-- No, not two months, about half a year, because we're saying his father passed away on Nisan, this was MarCheshvan. But for two months... No, but it says apparently he, uh, didn't take it, he didn't become Rebbe right away. I guess, I'm not sure, but it says it was only for two months. Uh, during the month of Elul and Tishrei, uh, thousands of Hasidim came to him because they thought, I guess, at the time, that maybe he will be the next Rebbe after the, uh, Tzemach Tzedek. So thousands of Hasidim visited him. But on Simchat Torah, Taf Res Chav Zayin, which was the following year, not even a, uh, uh, half a year, um, he got sick. And on the third day of Cheshvan, uh, which was just about a half a year after his father's passing, uh, he's passed away. And he is interred in his, uh, places of, uh, resting places in the city of Kopust. Now, his son became the Kopuster Rebbe. It was also like

11:57 a, a traditional Chabad. None of these branches of the Chabad Hasidus really took off, and none of them really, uh, survived. Like, you know, there is maybe, uh, of all the sons of the Tzemach Tzedek, you know, there was-- like we read yesterday, there was one, there was Rabbi Yisroel Meir of Nezhin was another. Another, that was the fourth son, was Yisroel Meir. And, uh, Maharil Yehuda Leib was the second son. And there was Reb Boruch Shalom, that was the oldest son. He was actually stayed in Lubavitch, he refused to become Rebbe. Uh, and the Lubavitch Rebbe is a direct descendant, son after son, from the oldest son of the Tzemach Tzedek too. The Rebbe, instead of-- besides being a son-in-law of the previous Rebbe, is also a direct descendant from the Tzemach Tzedek, from the oldest son of the Tzemach Tzedek, the Rebbe Boruch Shalom. Right. His father. So- Right. Which Rebbe? The- The Lubavitch Rebbe, our Rebbe. Right. Uh, so he is- He is the- Yeah. Yeah. He was a descendant of- Of the oldest of sons. See, we're talking about the different sons. We talked about Reb Boruch Shalom is the oldest son of the seven sons. The second son was Maharil, Rabbi Yehuda Leib. He became the Rebbe in Kopust, as we're reading now. His Yahrtzeit is on the third of Cheshvan. Then we talked about, yesterday, about the fourth son of the Tzemach Tzedek. His name was Yisroel Meir of Nezhin. He led a Hasidus over there. And then, of

13:24 course, the seventh son we know is the Rebbe Maharash. He became the Lubavitch Rebbe. He stayed in the- Seventh ... city of-- The seventh. He stayed in the city of Lubavitch. So you had the-