At age twenty- seven, Chaya Mushka became wife and life- partner of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. While her husbands name would become renowed world- wide, her life remained unknown and out of the public eye.
Chaya Mushka born in Babinovitch, near the city of Lubavitcher in Russia, on the 25th of Adar 1901. The second daughter of the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe and Rebbetzin Nechama Dina Schneerson. After she was born het grandfather the 5th Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer, at the time of her birth he was away from home and send a telegram to her father, " Mazel Tov, if she has not yet be named, you should give her the name Chaya Mushka. " This was the name of the wife of the Tzemach Tzedek the 3rd Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch.
In 1915, during the first world war, the family fled Lubavitch and settled in the town of Rostov. While living in Rostov her grandfather became ill, and Chaya Mushka cared for her grandfather, spending most time on his bedside. Before his passing, in 1920, he left several Chassidic classics to Chaya Mushka in his will.
Because of her wisdom, strength and courage, her father involved her in much of his work. Chaya Mushka was asked to secretly transport food and other supplies for the underground yeshiva. Risking her life in smugglng Shabbos candles to yeshiva students.
When life became more dangerous for Jews in Rostov, the familiy moved 1924 to Leningrad. Where Chaya Mushka continued with her work.
On the 4th of December 1924 her father wrote:
"i hereby empower citizen Chaya Moussia Yosepuvna (daughter of Yosef) Schneersohn, residing at Machovaya Street 12/22, apartment 10, to receive monies on my behalf or documents that are addressed to me, in all forms, from the government bank and all of its branches and offices, and from other banks, government or communal, or from other organizations or private persons or by telegraph."
In 1927 the communist police came to arrest her father at their home in Leningrad, she managed to alert her husband to be, Rabbi Menachem Mendel, who was outside,
"Schneerson, guests have come to visit us!" Understanding her message, the Rebbe was quickly able to notify others to take the necessary precaution and begin the international campaign for his release.
Following his arrest, the Rebbe was exiled from Leningrad prison to Krostoma. Chaya Mushka accomanied her father on the journey. On the 12th Tammuz she brought good news to the family in Leningrad, the release of her father.
In the autum of 1927 the family left the Soviet- Union and moved to Riga in Latvia. But just before leaving Russia, Chaya Mushka was engaged to marry Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. There marriage, however, was delayed until 1928. On the 14th of Kislev they celebrated their marriage in Warshaw, Poland.
The Rebbe's parents, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak and Rebbetzin Chana, unable to attend in person, organized a festive meal and farbrengen in their own house, to which hundreds of local Jews.
On the 14th of Kislev, 5714, twenty-five years later, the Rebbe said to his Chasidim: "It was this day that bound me to you, and you to me…"
