The Rebbe Rashab: Difference between revisions

Born in [[Lubavitch]] on Monday, [[Parshas Chayei Sarah]], 20 Cheshvan 5621. Regarding his birth, it is told that a year earlier, on the 10th of Kislev 5620 (1860), his mother dreamed that she saw her mother, Mrs. Chaya Sarah, and her grandfather, the Mitteler Rebbe. Her mother said to her with a happy face: "Rivka, you and your husband should write a Torah scroll," and the Mitteler Rebbe added: "And you will have a good son, and don't forget to name him after me." Her mother added: "Rivka, did you hear what my father is telling you?" And thus the dream ended. After nine days, on the night of the 19th of Kislev, she dreamed again, and this time in addition to her mother and grandfather, an elderly man arrived. Her mother said to her: "Rivka, you and your husband should write a Torah scroll." The Mitteler Rebbe said: "And you will have a good son," and the elderly man said: "Amen, so may Hashem say." Her mother concluded: "Grandfather, bless her," and the elderly man blessed her. Her mother and the Mitteler Rebbe answered Amen loudly, and she awoke. Afterwards she told her dreams to her husband,  the Rebbe Maharash, who said that he wanted the Torah scroll to be written on elegant parchment from properly slaughtered and kosher hides. The Tzemach Tzedek commanded that the beginning of the Torah scroll writing should be done secretly, in the presence of his brothers only and in his room. Less than a year later, the son was born and was named 'Shalom Dovber' after his two grandfathers, Rabbi Shalom Shachna and the Mitteler Rebbe.