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Rebbetzin Beila Walls

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Rebbetzin Beila was born to her parents, the Mitteler Rebbe and Rebbetzin Sheina.

She married the Chassidic Rabbi Yekusiel Zalman Walls, son of Rabbi Yosef Bunim, who was the son-in-law of the holy Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev.

In recent years, her husband Rabbi Yekusiel Zalman's headstone was discovered in the cemetery of Lubavitch.

Family

  • Her daughter Mrs. Freida was married to Rebbe Yisroel Noach Schneersohn of Niezhin, son of the Rebbe the Tzemach Tzedek.
  • Her son Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Zalmanson was the son-in-law of the Rebbe the Tzemach Tzedek, having married his daughter Rebbetzin Devorah Leah.
  • Her son Rabbi Shneur Zalmanson - was named after the Alter Rebbe.

The Walls family were related through marriage twice with the family of the Rebbe the Tzemach Tzedek.

  • Her daughter Mrs. Keila was the mother of Hinda Gurevitch, in whose estate was found a copy of a portrait of the Tzemach Tzedek, and of Miriam Sheinkin, wife of Menachem Sheinkin who was a senior aliyah activist and Zionist leader.

Menachem Sheinkin was a descendant (from a third marriage) of Rabbi Avraham Sheines, who was the son-in-law of the Alter Rebbe. His family was among the distinguished Chassidim of Kopust.