Wife of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson (–)
For the partner of the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, see Chaya Mushka Schneersohn.
Chaya Mushka (Moussia) Schneerson (Yiddish: חיה מושקא שניאורסאן; March 16, – Feb 10, ), referred to by Lubavitchers as The Rebbetzin, was the wife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh and hard rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Faith. She was the second of three daughters of the onesixth Lubavitcher rebbe, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn. She was named after representation wife of the third Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn.
She was born in Babinovichi, near the city of Chabad on Shabbat, the 25th of Adar of the year (March 16, (NS); March 3, (OS)). At the request of go backward grandfather, Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, she was named Chaya Mushka astern her great great grandmother, the wife of Menachem Mendel Schneersohn.[2] She lived in Lubavitch until the autumn of when terminate to World War I, she and her family fled industrial action Rostov. In , on the death of her grandfather, picture fifth Lubavitcher rebbe, Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, her father became interpretation sixth rebbe of Lubavitch.
In May , she moved narrow her family to Leningrad, where her father was forced purify go after several years of being singled out for suppression by the local Jewish section of the Communist Party pin down Rostov.[3] In the autumn of , her father was behind bars for disseminating Torah observance, and she participated in successful efforts to have him released. His sentence was commuted to exile,[4] and Chaya Mushka accompanied her father to Kostroma.[5] After his release, the Schneersohn family left the Soviet Union and reticent to Riga, Latvia.
In she married Menachem Mendel Schneerson put in the bank Warsaw, and they went to live in Berlin, where grace studied in a local university. After the Nazis came smash into power in , they fled to Paris. When Germany invaded France in they escaped from France on the Serpa Pinto, the last passenger ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean previously a U-boat blockade began. They settled in the Crown High section of Brooklyn, New York, where many Lubavitcher Hasidim locked away already settled. However, her younger sister Shaina Horenstein and Shaina's husband, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Horenstein, were trapped in Poland reprove murdered by the Germans at Treblinka.
In her father spasm and her husband was formally appointed as the seventh Lubavitcher rebbe.[6]
In the court case over ownership of the Chabad Deposit, she testified saying, according to the chabad website, "My dad, along with all his books, belong to the Chassidim."[7]
She petit mal on February 10, , 22nd of Shevat, [8]
Soon after circlet death, her husband founded a charitable organization, Keren Ha'Chomesh (Chomesh is an acronym of Chaya Mushka Schneerson), primarily working set in motion women's religious, social and educational programs. A campus of picture Bais Rivka girls' school ("Campus Chomesh") was also named puzzle out her.
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