Woman Dies at 99, Leaves Behind 1,400 Descendents

တုိ ့ရဲ ့ဘြားဘြား...

” ေကာင္းမြန္စြာထြန္ယက္စိုက္ပ်ဴိး၍တုိးပြားေလာ ့....”  ဟူေသာ ပညတ္ေတာ္မွာႀကားခ်က္ကုိ
Krishevsky  မိသားစုက တိတိက်က် တစ္ေသြမတိမ္း လုိက္နာခဲ ့သည္ဟုဆုိလွ်င္ လြန္အံ ့မထင္
မိပါေပ...

လြန္ခဲ ့သည္ ့စေန ေန ့က ၎မိသားစု၏ ဘြားဘြားႀကီး Rachel Krishevsky  ဟာအသက္ ၉၉
ႏွစ္အရြယ္မွာကြယ္လြန္သြားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
ဘြားဘြားႀကီးကြယ္လြန္ခ်ိန္မွာ သား၊သမီး၊ေၿမး၊ၿမစ္၊တီ၊တြတ္ အပါအ၀င္ မ်ဴိးဆက္သစ္အားလံုး
စုစုေပါင္း ၁၄၀၀ မွ်ေသာအေရအတြက္ရွိ မိသားစုႀကီးကုိခ်န္ထားရစ္ခဲ ့ေလသည္....

ဘြားဘြား Krishevsky  ဟာ အသက္ ၁၉ ႏွစ္အရြယ္မွာပဲ ၀မ္းကြဲအစ္ကုိတစ္ဦးၿဖစ္သူ Yitzhak
နဲ ့လက္ထပ္ခဲ ့တာပါ...
သူတုိ ့ႏွစ္ဦးကေန သားခုႏွစ္ေယာက္၊ သမီးေလးေယာက္ လူ ့ေလာကကုိ ေခၚေဆာင္လာခဲ ့ပါ
တယ္...သူတုိ ့ရဲ ့အစဥ္အဆက္လက္ခံက်င္ ့သံုးလာခဲ ့တဲ ့ ဓေလ ့ထံုးတမ္းအရဘြားဘြား Krishevsky
ဟာ သူမရဲ ့သားသမီးေတြကုိ ရင္ေသြးဟူက ရွဳမ၀၊ သားသမီးဆုိတာ ရတနာ ဟု သေဘာထား
ရန္သြန္သင္ခဲ ့သၿဖင္ ့ သူမ၏သားသမီးမ်ားက ထပ္မံ၍ သားသမီးေပါင္း ၁၅၀ ဦး ထပ္မံေမြးဖြား
ခဲ့ႀကပါတယ္....

ထုိ ၁၅၀ မွ် ေသာ သာသမီး( ေၿမး ) မ်ားကလည္း အေသအခ်ာပင္ ထြန္ယက္စုိက္ပ်ဴိးၿပီး တုိးပြား
လာခဲ ့ရာ မ်ဴိးဆက္သစ္ေပါင္း ၁၀၀၀ ထက္မနည္း ေပၚထြန္းေမြးဖြားလာခဲ ့သည္ ဟူသတတ္....
ဤသို္ ့ၿဖင္ ့ဘြားဘြား Krishevsky ၏ မိသားစုအသုိက္အၿမဳံႀကီးတုိးပြားခဲ ့ရာ သူမ မကြယ္လြန္
ခင္အထိ သူမတြင္ေၿမးမ်ားကေမြးေသာၿမစ္မ်ားပင္ ရာႏွင္ ့ခ်ီၿပီးရွိလာခဲ ့ေလသည္....

သုိ ့ၿဖင္ ့ သူမခ်စ္ခင္ၿမတ္နိုးသည္ ့ သားသမီး၊ေၿမးၿမစ္မ်ား ၀ုိင္းရံလွ်က္ပင္ ဘြားဘြားႀကီး  Krishevsky
တစ္ေယာက္ လူ ့ေလာကမွအၿပီးအပုိင္ထြက္ခြာသြားခဲ ့ရွာေလသည္...
ေမြးဖြားခဲ့ေသာ မ်ဴိးဆက္သစ္မ်ားမွာ မ်ားၿပားလြန္းလွသၿဖင္ ့ဘယ္သူက ဘယ္ႏွစ္ေယာက္ စသည္
ၿဖင္ ့အတိအက်ပင္ေရတြက္ၿခင္းငွာ မစြမ္းနုိင္ေတာ ့ေပ...
အႀကမ္းအားၿဖင္ ့သာ အေယာက္ ၁၄၀၀ ခန္ ့ရွိမည္ဟုခန္ ့မွန္းရေႀကာင္း ဘြားဘြားႀကီးရဲ ့ေၿမး
တစ္ဦးက ေၿပာခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
ဘြားဘြားအေနနဲ ့သက္တမ္းၿပည္ ့( တစ္ကယ္ေတာ ့ေက်ာ္တယ္လုိ ့ေတာင္ဆုိနုိင္ပါတယ္...)
အသက္ရွင္ေနထုိင္သြားခဲ ့ရေပမယ္ ့ မိသားစုႀကီးကေတာ ့အဘြားကုိ ႏွေၿမာ တသ ေႀကကြဲ
ေနႀကပါတယ္...
အဘြားဟာ သူမရဲ ့ဘ၀တစ္ေလွ်ာက္လံုးနီးပါး ေဂ်ရုဆလင္ၿမဳိ ့က Mahane Yehuda ေလဟာ
ၿပင္ေစ်းႀကီးနားမွာ ေနထုိင္ခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္....

” အဘြားဟာ ဘုရားသခင္ကုိ အလြန္ပ်ပ္၀ပ္ႀကည္ညဳိခဲ ့တာ  သူ ့ဘ၀တစ္ေလွ်ာက္လံုးပါပဲ...
သူမရဲ ့အိမ္တံခါး ကုိ အိမ္ေၿခယာေၿခမဲ ့သူမ်ားနဲ ့ေစ်းအနီးက ဆင္းရဲခ်ဴိ ့တဲ ့သူမ်ားအတြက္ လာ
ေရာက္စားေသာက္နုိင္ဖုိ ့အတြက္ အၿမဲပဲတံခါးဖြင္ ့ထားခဲ ့တာပါ....”  လုိ ့အဘြားရဲ ့ေၿမးတစ္ဦးက
ေၿပာၿပပါတယ္....

” အဘြားစာ သမၼာက်မ္းစာရဲ ့ ဆာလံ အခန္းကုိ အလြတ္ရၿပီး မိသားစုႀကီးရဲ ့သာေရး၊ နာေရး
အခန္းအနားေတြအားလံုးမွာ မပ်က္မကြက္ပါ၀င္ခဲ ့တာ လြန္ခဲ ့တဲ ့ႏွစ္ႏွစ္အထိပါပဲ....သူမရဲ ့
သားသမီး၊ ေၿမးၿမစ္ေတြအားလံုး ကုိလည္းမွတ္မိ သိရွိေနပါေသးတယ္...
သူမရဲ ့ဘ၀ဟာစြမ္းေဆာင္မွဳမ်ားနဲ ့ေၿဖာင္ ့မတ္မွန္ကန္တည္ႀကည္မွဳ၊ ေမတၱာ၊ဂရုဏာ တရားေတြ
ၿပည္ ့၀မွဳတုိ ့အတြက္ ဂုဏ္ယူရပါတယ္ ....”   လုိ ့ေၿမးမ်ားကဆုိပါတယ္...

ယခုလုိ သားသမီးေၿမးၿမစ္ေတြ အေၿမာက္အမ်ားေမြးထုတ္နုိင္ခဲ ့တာေတာင္မွ အဘြားထက္စံ
ခ်ိန္ခ်ဴိးနုိင္တဲ ့သူရွိေနပါေသးတယ္တဲ ့.....
အဘြားထက္ပုိၿပီး ေၿမးၿမစ္၊ တီ၊ တြတ္၊ ကြ်တ္ အထိရွိတဲ ့ အသက္ရွင္ေနဆဲ ဘုိး၊ ဘြား သက္ရွည္
မိသားစုႏွစ္ခု အခုအထိရွိေနပါေသးတယ္...
တစ္စုကေတာ ့ ေဂ်ရုဆလင္ၿမဳိ ့ရဲ ့ Mea Shearim  အရပ္မွာေနတဲ ့ Hassidic  မိသားစုပါ...
ေနာက္မိသားစုကေတာ ့ လစ္သူေယးနီးယား ဂ်ဴးအႏြယ္တစ္ခုရဲ ့ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ရဟူဒီဘုန္းေတာ္
ႀကီး Yosef Shalom Elyashiv  ရဲ ့မိသားစုပဲၿဖစ္ပါတယ္တဲ ့....
အဲဒီမိသားစုေတြရဲ ့လူဦးေရဘယ္ေလာက္လဲဆုိတာေတာ ့ေဖာ္မၿပထားတဲ ့အတြက္အတိအက်
မသိရေပမယ္ ့....၁၄၀၀ ေလာက္ရွိတဲ ့မိသားစုအႏြယ္ထက္ပုိမ်ားတယ္ဆုိေတာ ့....
ေအာင္မယ္ေလး....လုိ ့သာ တ လုိက္မိခ်င္ပါေတာ ့တယ္...

ကဲ....
သမီးႀကီး အိန္ဂ်ယ္ေရ....
ေကာင္းစြာထြန္ယက္စုိက္ပ်ဴိး၍ တုိးပြားေလာ ့....တဲ ့..
တုိ ့ေၿပာတာမဟုတ္ဘူးေနာ္....
ပညတ္ေတာ္ထဲမွာ ပါတာတဲ ့....

မူရင္းေလးကဒီလုိပါ....

JERUSALEM, Israel — The commandment to “be fruitful and multiply” the Krishevsky family follows quite closely. Last Saturday, the great grandmother, Rachel Krishevsky passed away at the age of 99, leaving behind no less than 1,400 children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and even great-great-grandchildren.

Krishevsky got married to her cousin, Yitzhak, just before turning 19. The couple brought seven sons and four daughters into the world. In accordance with haredi custom, Krishevsky brought up her children to see children as a great joy. Her children subsequently adopted her outlook and produced 150 children of their own.

These 150 children continued the commitment to be fruitful and multiply and themselves had no less than 1,000 children. From here, the lineage continued even further, and Rachel Krishevsky was blessed with a few hundred great-great-grandchildren.

Rachel Krishevsky died on Saturday surrounded by loving descendants.
Due to their great numbers, the family is not quite clear on precisely how many descendents there are. “The estimate in the family is that we are about 1,400 people since almost all of those from the family line were blessed with many children,” said one of the grandchildren Wednesday.

Though she lived a full and long life, the family is saddened by Rachel's passing. Krishevsky lived nearly her whole live next to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market.

“Grandma was a God-fearing woman her whole life, and her door was always open to the homeless and poor near the market who were looking for a place to eat,” added the grandchild.

“She knew the entire book of Psalms by heart, and participated in all the family events, happy and sad, up until two years ago. She knew all of her descendents. We are sad about her death, but proud of what she achieved in her life and her righteousness and compassion.”

Though Krishevsky certainly produced many offspring, she did was not a record-breaker. In the haredi sector, there are two well-known cases of living people having great-great-great-grandchildren. One such case is in a Hassidic family living in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim. Another such family is that of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the leader of the Lithuanian branch of haredi Judaism. A few months ago, his great-great-grandson had his first child.