Editing Menachem Mendel Schneerson (section)

===Marriage and family life===
In 1923, Schneerson visited the sixth Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, [[Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn]], for the first time. He met the rabbi's middle daughter [[Chaya Mushka Schneerson|Chaya Mushka]]—they were distant cousins. Sometime later, they became engaged but were not married until 1928 in [[Warsaw]], Poland.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ehrlich |first=Avrum M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SZR6ZOS0-KsC&q=%22Chaya+Mousia%22&pg=PA35 |title=The Messiah of Brooklyn: understanding Lubavitch Hasidism past and present |publisher=KTAV Publishing House, Inc. |year=2004 |isbn=9780881257809 |page=35}}</ref> Taking great pride in his son-in-law's outstanding scholarship, Yosef Yitzchak asked him to engage in learned conversation with the great Torah scholars that were present at the wedding, such as [[Meir Shapiro]] and [[Menachem Ziemba]].<ref>Chaim Rapoport ''The Afterlife of Scholarship: A Critical Review of 'The Rebbe' by Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman'', Oporto Press, 2011, {{ISBN|9780615538976}}, p. 77.</ref> Menachem Mendel and Chaya Mushka were married for 60 years and were childless.<ref name="Wall Street Journal">Dara Horn, June 13, 2014 [https://online.wsj.com/articles/book-review-rebbe-by-joseph-telushkin-and-my-rebbe-by-adin-steinsaltz-1402696458 "Rebbe of Rebbe's"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026163324/http://online.wsj.com/articles/book-review-rebbe-by-joseph-telushkin-and-my-rebbe-by-adin-steinsaltz-1402696458 |date=October 26, 2014 }}. ''Book Review 'Rebbe' by Joseph Telushkin and 'My Rebbe' by Adin Steinsaltz'', The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 28, 2014.</ref>

Menachem Mendel and Yosef Yitzchak were both descendants of [[Menachem Mendel Schneersohn]], known as the ''Tzemach Tzedek'', the third Rebbe of Chabad.<ref>Chana Schneerson, [http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1881290/jewish/Memoirs-of-Rebbetzin-Chana-Part-34.htm "Memoirs of Rebbetzin Chana - Part 34"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120704233204/http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1881290/jewish/Memoirs-of-Rebbetzin-Chana-Part-34.htm |date=July 4, 2012 }} Kehot, 2011.</ref> Schneerson later commented that the day of his marriage bound the community to him and him to the community.<ref name="chabad.org">Eli Rubin, [http://www.chabad.org/2619803 "High Holidays in Riga: Self and Community"]</ref>

In 1947, Schneerson traveled to Paris to take his mother, [[Chana Schneerson]], back to New York City with him.<ref name="Rebbe 2014. Page 475">''[[Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History]]''. HarperCollins, 2014. Page 475</ref> Schneerson would visit her every day and twice each Friday and prepare her tea.<ref>Chana Schneerson, [http://www.chabad.org/1881290 My Son Visits Every Day].</ref> In 1964, Chana Schneerson died.<ref>Joseph Telushkin, ''[[Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History]]''. HarperCollins, 2014. Page 488.</ref>

On February 10, 1988, Schneerson's wife Chaya died.<ref name="Chaya Schneerson">''The New York Times'' [https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/11/obituaries/chaya-schneerson-wife-of-the-leader-of-the-lubavitchers.html "Chaya Schneerson"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306062305/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/11/obituaries/chaya-schneerson-wife-of-the-leader-of-the-lubavitchers.html |date=March 6, 2016 }}, February 11, 1988</ref> A year after the death of his wife, when the traditional year of [[Jewish mourning]] had passed, Schneerson moved into his study above the [[770 Eastern Parkway|central Lubavitch synagogue]] on Eastern Parkway.<ref>Alan Feuer, January 14, 2009 [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/nyregion/15rooms.html "No One There, but This Place Is Far From Empty"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230085840/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/nyregion/15rooms.html |date=December 30, 2016 }} ''The New York Times''</ref>