She saw her role as wholly subordinate to her husband's mission of Jewish leadership. According to the Chabad biography, Rabbi Menachem Mendel initially did not want to take on the mantle of leadership, but Chaya Mushka (along with many of her father's Hasidim) persistently urged him to reconsider, and in 1951 he was formally appointed as the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe.Ĭhaya Mushka had no children, however once, when a child visiting her house asked her, "where are your children?" she answered, "the Chassidim are my children." However, her younger sister Shaina Horenstein and Shaina's husband, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Horenstein, were trapped in Poland and murdered by the Germans in the gas chambers of Treblinka. They settled in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, where many Lubavitcher Hasidim had already settled. When the Nazis invaded France in 1940 they managed to escape from France on the Serpa Pinto, which was the last passenger ship to cross the Atlantic ocean before the U-boat blockade began.
After the Nazis came to power in 1933 they fled to Paris, France. In 1928 she married Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson in Warsaw, and they went to live in Berlin, Germany, where he studied in the local University.
After his release, the Schneersohn family left the Soviet Union and moved to Riga, Latvia.
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak’s harsh sentence was first commuted to exile, and Chaya Mushka accompanied her father to Kostroma. In the autumn of 1927 her father was imprisoned for disseminating Torah observance, and she participated in efforts to have him released that were ultimately successful. In the spring of 1924, due to increasing dangers for the Jews in Rostov, she and her family moved to Leningrad. In 1920, on the passing of her grandfather, the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, her father became the sixth Rebbe of Lubavitch. She lived in Lubavitch until the autumn of 1915 when due to World War I, she and her family were forced to flee to Rostov. Upon request of her grandfather, Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, she was named Chaya Mushka after her great grandmother, the wife of the Tzemach Tzedek. She was named after the wife of the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn.īorn in Babinovitch, near the Russian city of Lubavitch on Shabbat, the 25th of Adar of the year 5661 (March 16, 1901). She was the second of three daughters of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn. Chaya Mushka (Moussia) Schneerson (Ma– February 10, 1988), referred to by Lubavitchers as The Rebbetzin, was the wife of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh and last Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism.
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