Heartfelt Tehillim Even with Many Mistakes

Though Rebbitzin Chaya Mushka, the wife of the Tzemach Tzedek, would recite a lot of Tehillim, she would do so with many mistakes. When one of her sons pointed this out to her, she asked her husband whether perhaps she should stop saying Tehillim.

The Rebbe advised her to continue and then called for his son and admonished him, saying that it was her Tehillim that had protected him at the Rabbinic Conference in Petersburg in רת"ג (1843).

The government, enraged by his views, had placed the Rebbe under house arrest twenty-two times, and it was her Tehillim that had saved him from a more serious punishment. On another occasion, too, when a libel was plotted against the Tzemach Tzedek, he asked his wife to recite Tehillim for him.