Chaya mushka schneerson biography samples

Wife of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson (–)

For the wife of the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, see Chaya Mushka Schneersohn.

Chaya Mushka (Moussia) Schneerson (Yiddish: חיה מושקא שניאורסאן; March 16, – February 10, ), referred to by Lubavitchers as The Rebbetzin, was the wife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh and last rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism.

Chaya mushka schneerson biography samples

She was the second of three daughters of the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn. She was named after the wife of the third Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn.

Biography

Early life

She was born in Babinovichi, near the city of Lubavitch on Shabbat, the 25th of Adar of the year (March 16, (NS); March 3, (OS)).

At the request of her grandfather, Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, she was named Chaya Mushka after her great great grandmother, the wife of Menachem Mendel Schneersohn.^[2] She lived in Lubavitch until the autu