!ערעב ציג! ס'נישט קיין איינע פון די מונקאטשער רביצינ'ס

A reader was quite upset with the post that "accused" the Munkatcher Rebbetzin of accompanying the Rov on a walk whilst on דאטשע. מ'קאן שוין מיינען, ווער ווייס וואס... According to him it was NOT the Rebbetzin, or his mother, the דרכי תשובה'ס Rebbetzin, and he provided the pictures to prove it. He says it was the wife of Reb Mordche Wulliger, later of New York. That she only looked old because of her frum style of dress. Maybe he just wants to set the record straight. Maybe he's a stickler for the truth, and isn't so bothered by the idea of the Rebbetzin walking nearby.

In any case...

Here's the Rebbetzin Ruchel Perel, daughter of Reb Yakov Moshe of Komarna (center, with the "shteren tichel") at the wedding in Munktach in 1933

Here's Esther, born Horowitz, the Darkei Tshuvah's Rebbetzin. She was a granddaughter of Reb Yankele Melitzer. 

אסאך רעבעצינס אין דארנא, בוקאווינע

Vatra Dornei -  דארנא וועטרא in Bukovina was a resort town/spa where many Jews would travel on vacation. It was also where a certain Bar Mitzvah took place in the summer of 1939. The bochur - Yaakov Yosef Twerski, son of the Reb Mordche Yisroel Twerski הי"ד, Rebbe of Azarnitz-Chotin - was a VERY big Yachsan and EVERYBODY and their wife came to the Bar Mitzvah. Some of them posed for pictures. We bring you two pictures from that occasion. You might say that is בהמשך to yesterday's post about the Rebbetzin Tzipoyreh, wife of the previous Skverrer Rebbe, zt"l.  Taking a closer look, without, ahem, looking too close, one can see a little of ירידת הדורות, or נשתנו העתים, if you will, in the manner of dress of the ladies, with the older generation still wearing the old tichel and the younger ones wearing some sort of sheitel or sheitel/tichel combo. This may have been the forerunner of what we see today in the ezras noshim in some kehillos. The Rebbe of Azarnitz-Chotin was killed by the רשעים in Bessarabia in 1941, but his son, the bochur haBar Mitzvah survived and married the daughter of the late Kopycnitzer Rebbe, Reb Avrohom Yehoshua Heschel, zt"l. We shall try and name the ladies pictured here, at least those in the first photograph. Photo caption courtesy of ספר מי יראנו טוב מאת הרב יצחק מאיר טווערסקי

מימין לשמאל: עומדות שניה מימין - הרבנית בת שבע אשת רבינו (רבי מרדכי ישראל טווערסקי מאזארניץ-חאטין), רייזל מרים ליפקיס בת רבינו, הרבנית טריינא (טראנע) אשת רבי יעקב יוסף טווערסקי אדמו"ר מסקווירא, הרבנית שיינדל אשת רבי  ישראל הגר אדמו"ר מוויזשניץ, הרבנית צירל אשת רבי ברוך  הגר אדמו"ר מסערט-וויזשניץ, הרבנית ברכה אשת רבי יהושע אייכנשטיין אדמו"ר מזידיטשויב גראסווארדיין, מימין לשמאל - יושבות: הרבנית בת שבע אשת רבי דוד פרידמאן אדמו"ר מפלוישט, הרבנית חוה אשת רבי אליעזר הגר אדמו"ר מוויזשניץ, הרבנית רחל אשת רבי לייפער אדמו"ר מפיטסבורג, הרבנית ראצע אשת רבי פנחס הגר מבארשא, יושבות ששי מימין: הרבנית ריבא אשת רבי שמחה רובין אדמו"ר מטאמאשאוו, הרבנית חנה סימא בת רבי דוד (הראשון) אדמו"ר מסקווירא, הרבנית שיינדל אשת רבי ברוך הגר אדמו"ר מווישיווא, הרבנית בלימא אשת הרב פייוועל הורוויץ, הרבנית מירל אשת רבי מרדכי דוד רובין מסאסרעגן. מימין לשמאל יושבות: הרבנית שרה אשת רבי משה זייוואלד, הרבנית צפורה חנה בת רבי ברוך הגר אדמו"ר מווישיווא, הרבנית סימה מירל אשת רבי מרדכי הגר אדמו"ר מוויזשניץ-מאנסי, הרבנית מרים אשת רבי חי יצחק אדמו"ר מרחמסטריווקה-בארא פארק  

In this picture I assume that seated second from left is the Vizhnitzer Rebbetzin again. See if you can identify others based on the picture above.

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who will be the Rebbetzin Kanievski of our children?

Reb Chaim's Rebbetzin passed away on Shabbos Chol Hamoed Sukkos in her home in Bnei Beraq. She was the daughter of Rav Elyashiv, a meyucheses in her own right. An eynikel of Reb Aryeh Levin. The Leshem! ניט שייכות צו זאגען! what more can you say. [מאמר המוסגר: what's with the "nifteres" shtick? all the "yeshivishe" sites write she was "nifteres" on Shabbos. No more "niftar." Is that even grammatically correct? She is a Nifteres, but she was Nifteres? Am I wrong on this one?] During the subsequent hespedim by the levaya and after YomTov she was dubbed the "mother of Klal Yisroel." I'm not here to bash that. וואס גייט מיר אהן what people say? זאל איר זייער וואויל באקומען. I'm just worried about the future. Who will be the Rebbetzin Kanievski of our children, screams this Circus Tent headline, and I could not have said it better myself. Who will bless Esrog Jelly from now on. Who will say Perek Shira at dawn with the Netz minyan at Lederman? Who will be mafrish challah for the rest of Klal Yisroel that cannot do it? If this what we make of frumme Yiddenes אך און וויי to us. What do we leave for the men? Maybe I'm jealous. Maybe it's because my Bubbe, who was a kaylichdig'e yesomeh at a young age in Hungary, didn't have a zeide like Reb Aryeh, could've very easily been not frum even before the war, was deported to Auschwitz, lost her siblings, nieces and nephews, made bombs for the Nazis in Leipzig - you get my drift. Bah-Bee also davened three times a day with a minyan, (she lived next to a shul) fasted on the Yohrtzeit of her husband, parents, siblings, said tehillim (Perek Shira wasn't a "thing" yet) every spare moment, took care of an Alzheimer's patient many years her junior, and best of all PASSED AWAY ON HER BIRTHDAY!!! She wore a white tichel and shirtzel on R"H and Y"K and cried to Hashem for a Gut Yohr. She cried to him because she loved him and wished only that she have to strength to serve him, not to לעבן א גוטען טאג, chas vesholom. Never have you seen a woman cook and bake with more lofty kavonos. Every poke of the fork into the Kokosh Cake dough was with the loftiest of intentions, no less than a Brisker rolling his rrrrreish during KrishMeh. And I say that in all seriousness. I'll show you her Hungarian צאינה וראינה one day. Halevai my Tanya should one day look like that, or your shas. Or any of our siddurim.

So if my Bubbe would be alive I'd say that she could very easily take the place of the lofty Rebbetzin BatSheva. Despite the fact that her husband was not the Sar Hatorah, nor was her father the Posek HaDor/Urim VeTumim. (He was a musmach of the Pressburger Yeshivah, though) Maybe BECAUSE of that she'd be a very good candidate. She was self-made, after all. (Yea, Yea, צדיק בן צדיק, I know what you'll say.) They say that Reb Chaim appointed his daughter Rabbanit Kuledtzki to replace his wife as mother of Klal Yisroel. I haven't seen her at all, but I saw her husband, and he's no Reb Chaim. Rebbetzin Batsheva had a old time Yerushalayimer charm that you can't just pass on to your children, necessarily. In the pictures Reb Chaim looks very, very distraught. Utterly devastated. May the Eybershter comfort him and his family בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים.

(I would go be menachem avel if I had the means.)

Rebbetzin Chana's Memoirs (Part II)

Rebbetzin Chana Memoirs Part 2

די חשוב'ע רביצין האט די בעסטע 17 פון איר לעבן געלעבט דא אין ניו יארק, זעהענדיג ווי איר גרויסער זונ'ס כוחות און פעהיגקייטן ווערן אויסגענוצט צום פולן מאס. דער רבי פלעגט איר יעדן טאג באזוכן אין שטוב, און זי האט געווארט בכליון עינים פאר די וויזיט.