An evening marking the seventh yartzeit of Mrs. Gita Gansburg will take place this Wednesday, Vov Kislev/November 10. The event, beginning at 8:00 p.m. will be held at Mrs. Gansburg’s home for 38 years, the 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 renowned 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, dean of Machon L’Yahadus; Mrs. Nechama Chanin – one of Mrs. Gansburg’s daughter; Adina Adry and Miriam Bard-Wigdor, Crown Heights; Shulamis Blokh – Chabad of Rego Park, NY; Aliza Krivisky – MiYad Chabad House, Jericho, NY.
“Our dorm is full to capacity this year,” 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, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Papua New Guinea, Panama, Dominican Republic, Mexico, France, Russia and Ukraine.
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.
