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'''Rebbetzin Devorah Leah Ginzburg''' ([[Lubavitch]], [[5615|1855]] – [[Vitebsk]], [[5684|1924]]) was the eldest daughter of the [[Maharash|Rebbe Maharash]], the fourth Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch. | '''Rebbetzin Devorah Leah Ginzburg''' ([[Lubavitch]], [[5615|1855]] – [[Vitebsk]], [[5684|1924]]) was the eldest daughter of the [[The Rebbe Maharash|Rebbe Maharash]], the fourth Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch. | ||
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* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CRzsQfT6irXjelLpg8C1Zeso5ZJtGdWj/view The Year of Moras Devorah Leah Ginzburg's Passing], ''Kovetz Hearos u'Biurim — Ohalei Torah'', 3 Tammuz 5783, p. 252. | * [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CRzsQfT6irXjelLpg8C1Zeso5ZJtGdWj/view The Year of Moras Devorah Leah Ginzburg's Passing], ''Kovetz Hearos u'Biurim — Ohalei Torah'', 3 Tammuz 5783, p. 252. | ||
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Rebbetzin Devorah Leah Ginzburg[edit | edit source]
Rebbetzin Devorah Leah Ginzburg (Lubavitch, 1855 – Vitebsk, 1924) was the eldest daughter of the Rebbe Maharash, the fourth Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch.
Life[edit | edit source]
Devorah Leah was born in 1855 in Lubavitch, the eldest daughter of the Rebbe Maharash.[1] Her father once remarked of her: "Devorah Leah, you have a good head."[2]
Although it is not the Chabad custom to hide or "steal" the afikomen at the Passover Seder, the Frierdiker Rebbe (the Previous Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn) once recalled how Devorah Leah, as a young child, made an exception — she snatched the afikomen and received a pearl necklace in return.[3]
The Rebbe (Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson) related at a farbrengen (chassidic gathering) that upon learning of her father's passing, Devorah Leah turned to face the wall and stood that way for three full days, unaware of everything around her, not uttering a sound — or, in another version of the story, no sound was heard from her.[4] The Rebbe also told that as a young child, whenever she was given something to calm her crying, she would say that she had not stopped — she was only taking a break.[5]
On the 8th of Sivan, 1872, she married Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Leib Ginzburg, and the couple settled in Vitebsk, where they lived for the rest of their lives. In the month of Menachem Av 1893, the Rebbe Rashab (Rabbi Shalom Dovber Schneersohn, the fifth Rebbe of Chabad) stayed as a guest in their home for approximately two weeks.[6]
Rebbetzin Devorah Leah passed away in Vitebsk in 1924. She was buried with great honor: the local Anash (Chabad chassidim) and the Chevra Kadisha (Jewish burial society) insisted on carrying her coffin on their shoulders rather than transporting it by wagon. This was recounted by her granddaughter Zinaida Kushner to her daughter Galina Yakovov (daughter of Sheina).
Family[edit | edit source]
- Son: Dov Ber Ginzburg
- Son: Aharon Yosef Ginzburg[7]
- Son: Shmuel Ginzburg
- Daughter: Mussia Gurvitch
- Daughter: Sheina Meirowitz
- Daughter: Rochel
- Daughter: Chasia
Further Reading[edit | edit source]
- Yosef Yitzchak Kaminetzky, Kitzur Toldos Chabad, pp. 184–187.
- Alter Eliyahu Friedman, Ateres Malchus, pp. 267–270.
- The Year of Moras Devorah Leah Ginzburg's Passing, Kovetz Hearos u'Biurim — Ohalei Torah, 3 Tammuz 5783, p. 252.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Reshimos Admur Shlita, p. 331.
- ↑ Sefer HaSichos 5700, p. 71. Also cited in Toras Menachem, vol. 36, p. 313; vol. 43, p. 201.
- ↑ Reshimos Admur Shlita, p. 373. Haggadah shel Pesach im Likkutei Taamim u'Minhagim, p. 11.
- ↑ Farbrengen, 13 Tishrei 5712 (1951).
- ↑ Toras Menachem, vol. 7, p. 120.
- ↑ Igros Kodesh of the Frierdiker Rebbe, vol. 3, p. 409. See also Sefer HaSichos 5696, p. 57.
- ↑ For 13 Tishrei: A grandson of the Rebbe Maharash who became a Russian revolutionary, COL.