Editing Baruch (father of the Alter Rebbe) (section)

== Marriage ==
Shortly after arriving in Vitebsk, Baruch entered into a shidduch with Rivka, daughter of Rabbi Avraham the Gardener from Liozna. Baruch presented several conditions to his father-in-law: 1. That he would not be supported by his father-in-law's table (as was customary in those days), but rather R' Avraham would build him a special house immediately after the wedding. Baruch's purpose was to create a guest house for hidden tzaddikim who wandered from city to city, whom he had met several times during his wanderings. 2. That he would not receive any dowry or wedding gifts from R' Avraham. 3. That immediately after the seven days of celebration, he and his wife would leave his father-in-law's table and sustain themselves solely through his own labor. His wife had to agree in advance to be content with little, according to whatever livelihood Hashem would provide, and not to need help from flesh and blood.

After his future father-in-law R' Avraham agreed, the shidduch was concluded. Baruch's aunt and sister wanted R' Avraham to also commit to allocating suitable land for Baruch to maintain a garden, because Baruch had told them that one of the main reasons he wanted to marry R' Avraham's daughter was that R' Avraham earned his living from gardening, and he too wanted to earn his living as a gardener like his father-in-law, pursuing the profession he had learned from him. R' Avraham agreed to this as well and allocated a plot of land several versts from Liozna.

Baruch stipulated with his father-in-law that the wedding should be postponed as long as possible. This was because he wanted a period of at least one year to continue his wanderings and complete his search for the correct path in serving the Creator. For this reason, he hurried to hold the engagement celebration.

Afterward, he remained studying in the yeshiva in Vitebsk for a full year. During this year, Baruch continued to behave as before, dedicating certain hours of the day to work for his livelihood, and the rest of the time to Torah study. Throughout the winter, Baruch studied according to the schedule his brother-in-law, the Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak, set for him. The program included much Gemara, Tanach, Mishnayot, Rambam, and various commentaries, along with mussar works, which he continued to study with great enthusiasm. When winter passed and Pesach was approaching, Baruch left Vitebsk and set out again. Although his relatives invited him to celebrate Pesach with them, he replied that he had his own plans and intended to celebrate Pesach elsewhere. Knowing that he would soon marry and begin a new life, Baruch wanted to visit his old friends again, with whom he had close contact and who had influenced him during his years of wandering. Thus, before Pesach, Baruch set out again on his journey and visited the towns of Yanovitch and Dobromysl. After that Pesach, Baruch decided to stay for a short period in Dobromysl.

Initially, R' Baruch (as part of his conditions with his father-in-law R' Avraham) set the wedding date for 18 Elul 5503. That year, 18 Elul fell on Shabbos, and R' Baruch set the chuppah time for motzei Shabbos kodesh. However, a few weeks before the wedding, R' Baruch informed his mechutan R' Avraham that he agreed to hold the chuppah on Friday, the seventeenth of Elul. And so it was - R' Baruch's marriage to Rebbetzin Rivka took place on 17 Elul 5503, erev Shabbos kodesh "Ki Savo".

After his marriage, R' Baruch lived on his dowry estate near Liozna, which was called "The White Spring" (in Yiddish "Weissqualik", today: Veleshkovichi). Many refugees from Prague and Pozna settled as families working the land on R' Baruch's large estate.