Ever Heard of the Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky School of Management?

The latest edition of the N’shei Chabad Newsletter brings readers a vivid description of the Rebbe’s wedding, an interview with Rabbi Abba Paltiel about his grueling life under communist Russia, and an editorial about the very unusual and dearly beloved man that was Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky.

Here are some highlights from the latest edition of the N’shei Chabad Newsletter:

Ever heard of the Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky School of Management? Become one of its students by reading the editorial about this very unusual, dearly beloved man in the upcoming Kislev issue of NCN. Buy it in Crown Heights stores or subscribe now at https://nsheichabadnewsletter.com/subscribe/

Seven Rebbeim attended the wedding of our Rebbe and Rebbetzin. Get the details in a feature by Sara Gold in the Kislev issue.

Esther Sternberg recalls her father’s words about that wedding:

“It was traditional to hold a chassan mohl the night before the wedding with dancing and a festive meal, to encourage the chassan. The Frierdiker Rebbe told them, ‘Tomorrow night you will have to stand on the bleachers and watch from afar, but tonight [at the chassan mohl] I will dance with YOU.’ That night all the bachurim in Tomchei Temimim danced vigorously with the Frierdiker Rebbe. My father, Rabbi Zalman Gurary, was one of the bachurim who merited to participate in that beautiful and memorable evening. They could all see the joy of the Frierdiker Rebbe for the son-in-law who would soon be joining him.”

The N’shei Chabad Newsletter interviewed Rabbi Abba Paltiel about his life, which began in Russia under communism. Here’s an excerpt:

“When the Nazis bombarded Moscow during WWII, our brick house was hit. The government was supposed to give us a home, but in the interim, we had to evacuate. My father took us to Omsk, Siberia, where Uncle Nochum and his children lived. There were no telephones and there had not been enough time to send a telegram. We just showed up at his door.

“Nochum took us in immediately and indefinitely. We slept on blankets on the floor and my father found a job at the Siberian branch of the Bank of Russia. My father came home from work one day and asked my brother Lazer if he had davened. Lazer replied, ‘Voss darf men doss—who needs that?’ My father immediately understood that our older cousins were indoctrinating us with Communist anti-religious beliefs. He decided then and there that we could not stay.

“It was nighttime, but my father went out and found a dilapidated shack behind a house. He carried us there in the middle of the night. We lived there for two years. I remember my father dumping a big bag of potatoes onto the floor, and that’s what we lived on for the rest of our stay. Our new home was a lot less comfortable than Uncle Nochum’s. We had to constantly choose between freezing and choking. If we turned on the small furnace, smoke would fill the room because the chimney was clogged. If we turned off the furnace, we shivered from the cold. But my father would never trade physical comforts for spiritual survival.”

Rabbi Abba Paltiel gave shalom bayis classes in the 1990s. We bring you excerpts of those classes in this issue.

The Rebbe warned us about what happens when women are trying to look younger and younger. It can really get out of hand! No excerpt. You have to see the center spread of this issue to believe it.

Rabbi Chaim Levi Goldstein brings us letters from the Rebbe explaining to parents why children need to go to school with other children and not be homeschooled.

Last but not least, we had the zchus and pleasure to meet with Holocaust survivor Mrs. Judy Fettman, whose picture graces our cover. She described how she was born in horrific times, surrounded by fear and hunger and death. And yet, she had two parents who had shalom bayis and she feels her childhood was, overall, happy and secure; Mrs. Fettman does not speak of her childhood with words like “trauma” and “emotional neglect,” and she concludes the interview with what she considers an important message to us about the power of our shalom bayis.

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These and many more grace the pages of the Kislev 5785 issue of the N’shei Chabad Newsletter. Subscribe now at https://nsheichabadnewsletter.com/subscribe/ or buy it in Crown Heights stores before Chanukah. You don’t want to be out of the loop when everyone’s talking about it!