14 Cheshvan 5585 (November 5, 1824) – Wedding of the Maharil of Kapust

00:00 Speaker 1 The Yemei Chabad for the fourteenth days of MarCheshvan, uh, the, uh, fourteen days of, fourteenth day of Cheshvan in the year Taf Kuf, uh, Peh Hei. Um, okay, this is already, um, going back, uh, almost, uh, two hundred years. Not, uh, quite two hundred years. Not, not, not quite two hundred years, but it's a little short of two hundred years. Just a hundred and ninety about-- almost a hundred and ninety years ago. It was the wedding-

00:30 Speaker 2 Where to go every day.

00:31 Speaker 1 In, in the wedding-

00:32 Speaker 2 But-

00:32 Speaker 1 One second. One-- In the, in the wedding of the Rebbe of the Maharil of Kapust, as the Rebbe Yehuda Leib of Kapust, who was the son of the Tzemach Tzedek. As we said, the Tzemach Tzedek had seven sons. The second one was Rebbe Yehuda Leib. He became a Rebbe in the city of Kapust. His, his, uh... He only lasted for six months. He died six months after his father passed away, so he wasn't there for that long. But his wedding-- He was a very, uh, special, great, uh, Talmid Chaham. Um, the, um... His wedding took place on the fourteenth day of Cheshvan, and, um, he married the daughter of a, uh, Hasid named Reb Shloime Fredes of Shklov, who was one of the great followers, Hasidim, of the Alter Rebbe and the Mitteler Rebbe. Um, he was the one who used to actually write down, uh, the words of the Alter Rebbe. Uh, he was one of the, uh, writers, sort of, who used to put down... The Alter Rebbe would give a talk. It was Shabbos, and it was, uh, uh, Yom Tov, and somebody would remember it, and then they would write it down to bring it into the Rebbe. So that was his father-in-law of the Maharil, the, uh, Rebbe Yehuda Leib. Um, and when they arrested the, uh, Mitteler Rebbe in the year Taf Kuf, uh, Peh Zayin, um, they actually arrested him as well. Um, he, he got arrested. That was two years after his marriage, I guess. And then

02:06 Speaker 1 he, he, he was arrested at that time as well. Um, during his wedding, which again took place on the fourteenth day of Cheshvan, uh, theee Mitteler Rebbe gave over many Hasidic discourses, which are printed in the, uh, publication on the Maimonim. And we learned earlier that the, um, uh, Mitteler Rebbe had a very special love to his grandson, to the Maharil. Uh, he used to lean on him. He used to call him his tender, as we learned. And, um, what I, what I'm, what I'm reading here, just so you know, again, is this is the-- a book that collects all the, uh, Chabad history for every day. Of course, it doesn't go through every individual. Mainly talks about the Rebbes and some of the Rebbe's family, the children, the wives, the, the daughters, the family members, and some great Hasidim also who have marked, you know, left a mark in the special days, uh, in the Hasidic calendar. Uh, and, uh, while we, we learn this, you know, we try to, uh, uh, bring down various, you know, to expand, expound on it a little bit. But we're actually gaining a good insight of a, of the Rebbe's family and the different, uh, history of the, of the Chabad movement as it went throughout through the years. Um, quick, uh, day is the fourteenth day of Cheshvan for Yemei Chabad, the days in Chabad history, and this is, uh, a fairly recent in Taf Reish Chof Alef. That's the, uh, that's, uh, hundred and, uh,

03:43 Speaker 1 fifty years ago. Um, we, um... At that time, there was the, uh, completion of a Sefer Torah which the Tzemach Tzedek, uh, the Rebbe Nachum of the third of Babich Rebbe instructed to write for the birth of the Rebbe Rashab, as the story we'll learn later on in the twentieth day of Cheshvan, on the birthday of the Rebbe Rashab. But it was completed on the fourteenth day of Cheshvan. Um, the Rashab was born on the twentieth day of Cheshvan. This was completed a few days before the birth of, of Cheshvan, so-- which is the fourteenth day of, uh, of Cheshvan.