16 Cheshvan 5676 (October 24, 1915) – The Rebbe Rashab Leaves Lubavitch for Rostov

00:00 Speaker 1 Sixteenth day of Marcheshvan in the year Taf Reish Ayin Zay-- Ayin Vav, uh, which is, uh, coming up almost a hundred years. Uh, that's the date in which the Rebbe Rashab, that's the, uh, fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, uh, left the city of Lubavitch finally and moved to Rostov, moved to the city of Rostov. Um, that was on the sixteenth day of Cheshvan. Um, you know, the, um, city of Lubavitch was the headquarters of, uh, four Chabad Rebbes. Um, the Mitteler Rebbe moved to-- thank you, moved to, to there, and then the Tsamach-- the Tzemach Tzedek, and then the Rebbe Maharas, and then the Rebbe Rashab. They were all, uh, in Lubavitch. Uh, during the First World War, when the German, uh, forces started to advance towards Russia, the Rebbe Rashab decided that he's going to leave Lubavitch and to move the, uh, court, uh, Chabad court, the Chabad empire to the city of Rostov. And the previous Rebbe relates that we left, it was on the sixteenth day of Cheshvan, we left from Lubavitch, and we traveled to Orel for three days, and then we came there on Wednesday, the nineteenth day of Cheshvan at six o'clock in the evening. And while we were sitting in the carriage, this was what my father said, the Rebbe Rashab said then that for one hundred and two years our family lived in Lubavitch. It was actually from month to month because the Mitteler Rebbe settled in Lubavitch on a permanent basis in the month of Cheshvan, Marcheshvan in

02:04 Speaker 1 the year Taf Kuf Ayin Daled. That would be exactly hundred years. Lubavitch, uh, came to being... I mean, it's, I mean, two hundred years. Exactly two hundred years ago, 'cause today we're Ayin Daled Marcheshvan, so it's exactly two hundred years ago they settled in Lubavitch. And, um, on the Marcheshvan, hundred and two years later in the year Taf Reish Ayin Vav, which is one hundred and two years later, we are leaving Lubavitch. And then he also interpreted the-- as a statement of the sages that says that, uh, when one recites the study one hundred times, there's something about one hundred and one times. Uh, Talmud says there's no comparison because the extra time more than hundred adds so much. And then he explains that the two is even more, one hundred and one, so this is one hundred and two, and the fact that they were in the, uh, in, in, uh, in, in Lubavitch for that time. And he said that that would come out the numerical value of the word yesod, means foundation. The word yesod, if you take the numerical value of the word yesod, uh, comes out to seventy because yud-- I mean to eighty. Yud and samach, samach is sixty, yud is ten, is seventy, and vav and daled is another ten, so together it's eighty. Now, if you take foundation, the word, and you include the chovoth, the twenty-two letters of the alphabet, which basically are the structure of the Hebrew language, uh, together you come up with the

03:48 Speaker 1 number one oh two. So it's eighty plus twenty-two is one oh two, uh, which is Lubavitch on the one hundred and two years made a foundation with the twenty-two letters, so that it was a foundation with the twenty-two letters which equal the number one hundred and two. That was, uh, the special number at that time. And for eight years, uh, from the year Taf Reish Ayin Vav until the year of Taf Reish Pei Daled, uh, the, uh, city of Rostov was the, uh, base for the, uh, Lubavitch headquarters, uh, uh, the kingdom of Lubavitch lived in Rostov. Eventually, they moved to Leningrad, uh, later on, and, um, um, you know, eventually, uh, the Rebbe left the previous-- then the Pre-- Rebbe died, uh, passed away, the, the Rebbe Rashab, and then his son, the previous Rebbe, he's in Rostov. He's in Rostov. And, uh, then his, uh, son, the previous Rebbe, the sixth Lubavitch Rebbe, eventually they left, they left Russia. They went to, to, to Latvia and then to Poland, and then eventually they came to the United States. One more thing on, on the sixteenth day of Cheshvan, this is in the year, um, Taf Reish Pei. Um, so this is-- we're going now back to, uh, ninety, uh, ninety years ago, a little less than ninety years.

05:14 Speaker 2 Nineteen twenty-s.

05:15 Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah. In the... Actually, um, this is, yeah, nineteen twenty, yeah, around that, yeah. So, uh, that was the day of the passing of the Rebbetzin Yocheved Schneerson. She was the wife of Rabbi Avraham Schneerson, who was the, uh, mother-in-law-- she was the mother-in-law of the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe. The previous Lubavitcher Rebbe's Rebbetzin Nechama Dina, she was a daughter of Avraham and Yocheved Schneerson. And, uh, we already said that this Avraham Schneerson was a, a grandson of the, um, of the, uh, Tzemach Tzedek. Um, it's actually-- this Avraham Schneerson, he was the son of the Maharim, Rabbi Yisroel Meyuch, who was the Re-- from Nezin, he was the The fourth son of the Tzemach Tzedek, and Rabbi Avraham Schneerson was his, uh, the, the, uh-- was the son of the Maharim. And, um- Right ... and the rebbetzin, uh, and, and, um, and, and the rebbetzin-- and, and his wife was-- and, and his son was-- Avraham Schneerson was Rebbi Sholom's son, and Avraham's, uh, wife, uh, was Yocheved. And Yocheved, they had the rebbetzin Nechama Dina, which was the wife of the, uh, of the, uh, previous rebbe. Yocheved's yahrtzeit is on the sixteenth day of Cheshvan. Only relatives of the rebbe that we know that is, uh, today, I shouldn't say that I, I, I know again, um, I believe is the rebbe's brother, um, got married and, um, eventually moved to Israel. So the rebbe's brothers, um, um, um, they had a, a daughter, and that daughter and two, uh, and two

07:21 Speaker 1 of her daughters, that's-- they live, I believe, in Rehovot in, in Israel. Uh, they are not, uh, that, uh, you know, involved in the, uh- In the movement ... yeah, in the movement, in the, the Chabad. But, um, they respect their privacy also. I mean, I've read they, they don't wanna, uh, um, you know, uh, to be, you know, the Chabad is very, uh, uh, would be very interested, would hold her on a pedestal to even just... That's the physical dynasty and physical, uh, relationship to the rebbe. And, uh, but that's, I think, the, um-- I think that's what we know today that is known is, is what-- is that what we know. I mean, in previous years- Mm-hmm ... they used to come to visit the rebbe and, uh... But there, there's a-- there's history. Everything is already today been published and written down. Oh, wonderful. I don't know. It's, it's something that we need to just look up and see what it is that- It's like Machar Chabad