An evening marking the Eighth yartzeit of Mrs. Gita Gansburg will take place this Wednesday, Vov Kislev/November 30. The Hakhel Gathering, beginning at 8:00 p.m. will be held at Mrs. Gansburg’s home for 38 years, the Machon L’Yahadus dormitory at 1367 President Street and on Zoom.
During one of the Rebbe’s visits to the dormitory on the first night of Pesach, the Rebbe told Mrs. Gansburg, “Thank you for raising my daughters.”
Mrs. Gansburg devoted nearly four decades of her life to “raising the Rebbe’s daughters.” In this capacity she worked together with her husband, famed chasid Rabbi Yitzchok (“Itchke”) Gansburg. Mrs. Gansburg is the daughter of the renown chasid Reb Refoel Nachman Kahn.
The event, “Five Minutes with Mrs. Gansburg,” will feature people who knew Mrs. Gansburg in different capacities and at different times of her life. They will each share a teaching, memory or life-lesson from Mrs. Gansburg for five minutes. Featured speakers are: Rabbi Shloma Majeski, principal of Machon L’Yahadus; Mrs. Chaya Chanin – one of Mrs. Gansburg’s granddaughters; Rachel Benchimol, shlucha in Manhattan, Alizah Chekroun, Natalie Rice and Tanya Shaider.
“Our dorm is a nurturing place for our students,” explains Rabbi Majeski, “surely due in part to the continuation of Mrs Gansburg’s legacy of making the dorm a ‘home away from home’ for the students.”
This year’s Machon L’Yahadus students hail from all over the United States as well as from Canada, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Brazil, Hungary, and Argentina.
The event will be on Zoom ID #832 826 3444 password Learning or FB Live @womensyeshiva
To donate in memory of Mrs Gansburg visit womensyeshiva.org/donate/ or call 347-300-7729
Machon L’Yahadus is a division of NCFJE.
To her dear family, thank you for allowing your mother to be our mother during this special time in our lives.
Real care, caring dedicated mother figure for so many girls in the world, health action and the rebbe to build kosher families all her life 💕kol hakavod and ty for the rest of the family ,children that allowed this to happen♥️
I was there when the gansbougs first came in 1977.. ..since i knew yiddish i was one of the few girls the could translate and communicate with our new dormintory parents……so began our long but special relationship with the gansbourgs.. there devotion to the rebbe the care for the girls.. their chayus for doing everything in yiddishkeit especially..connecting to the rebbe….our father …his daughters from the dorm named after his mother …was so special.. i also had the special merit to learn one on one with mrs gansbourg ….a mirmar as she was daughter of the famous raphel kahn yoel… Read more »