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Dombrov (Hasidic Dynasty)
Dombrov is a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rebbe Mordechai Dovid Unger (c. 1770-1846). Dombrov is the Yiddish name of Dąbrowa Tarnowska, a town in present-day Poland. Lineage Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger was the son of Tsvi Hersh, a disciple of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk and Rabbi Avrohom Yehosua Heshil of Apt. He studied under the Kozhnitzer Magid. Lineage of the Unger Family *Grand Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger of Dombrov **Grand Rabbi Yosef of Dombrov—son of R' Morechai Dovid ***Grand Rabbi Yisroel Elimelech Unger of Zhabno—son of R' Yosef ****Grand Rabbi Mordechai David Unger of Tsanz—son of R' Yisroel Elimelech, son-in-law of Rabbi Moshe Unger son-in-law of *****Grand Rabbi Ben Zion Unger of Tsanz—son of R'mordechai david , son-in-law of Rabbi Sholom Reinman of Narol ******Grand Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Unger, Dombrover Rebbe in America—son of R' Ben Zion *******Grand Rabbi Ben Zion Unger, present Dombrover Rebbe of Boro Park *******Grand Rabbi Mordechai David Ung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasidic Dynasty
A Hasidic dynasty is a dynasty led by Hasidic Jewish spiritual leaders known as rebbes, and usually has some or all of the following characteristics: * Each leader of the dynasty is often known as an ''ADMOR'' (abbreviation for '' ADoneinu MOreinu veRabeinu'' – "our master, our teacher, and our rabbi"), or simply as ''Rebbe'' (or "the Rebbe"), and at times called the "Rav" ("rabbi"), and sometimes referred to in English as a "Grand Rabbi"; * The dynasty continues beyond the initial leader's lifetime by succession (usually by a family descendant); * The dynasty is usually named after a key town in Eastern Europe where the founder may have been born or lived, or where the group began to grow and flourish; * The dynasty has (or once had) followers who, through time, continue following successive leaders (rebbes), or may even continue as a group without a leader by following the precepts of a deceased leader. A Hasidic group has the following characteristics: * It was founded by a le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobov-45
Bobov (or Bobover Hasidism) ( he, חסידות באבוב, yi, בּאָבּאָװ) is a Hasidic community within Haredi Judaism, originating in Bobowa, Galicia, in southern Poland, and now headquartered in the neighborhood of Borough Park, in Brooklyn, New York. Bobov developed into a leading Hasidic dynasty through the leadership of Shlomo Halberstam, a Holocaust survivor. There are currently two independent Bobov communities, each with their own rebbes and institutions. The first, which carries the name Bobov and inherited all Bobov institutions, is led by Benzion Halberstam. The second one, named Bobov-45, broke away from the main group in 2005, and established their own institutions; they are led by Mordechai Dovid Unger. Bobov communities are found in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn; in Monsey, New York; Los Angeles; Lakewood, New Jersey; Montreal; Toronto; Antwerp; and London. In Israel, Bobov has large branches in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Ashdod, Elad, Beitar I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg's capital. Berlin's urban area, which has a population of around 4.5 million, is the second most populous urban area in Germany after the Ruhr. The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Rhine-Main regions. Berlin straddles the banks of the Spree, which flows into the Havel (a tributary of the Elbe) in the western borough of Spandau. Among the city's main topographical features are the many lakes in the western and southeastern boroughs formed by the Spree, Havel and Dahme, the largest of which is Lake Müggelsee. Due to its l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. Located near the southern tip of New York State, Manhattan is based in the Eastern Time Zone and constitutes both the geographical and demographic center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. Over 58 million people live within 250 miles of Manhattan, which serves as New York City’s economic and administrative center, cultural identifier, and the city’s historical birthplace. Manhattan has been described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world, is considered a safe haven for global real estate investors, and hosts the United Nations headquarters. New York City is the headquarters of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Heights, Manhattan
Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the uppermost part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest natural point on Manhattan by Continental Army troops to defend the area from the British forces during the American Revolutionary War. Washington Heights is bordered by Inwood to the north along Dyckman Street, by Harlem to the south along 155th Street, by the Harlem River and Coogan's Bluff to the east, and by the Hudson River to the west. Washington Heights, which before the 20th century was sparsely populated by luxurious mansions and single-family homes, rapidly developed during the early 1900s as it became connected to the rest of Manhattan via the A, C, and 1 subway lines. Beginning as a middle-class neighborhood with many Irish and Eastern European immigrants, the neighborhood has at various points been home to communities of German Jews, Greek Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordechai Dovid Unger
Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger Shlita ( he, הרב מרדכי דוד אונגער) is the first Rebbe of Bobov-45. Biography Unger was born in 1954 to Yaakov Yitzchok Unger of Dombrov. He is the younger son-in-law of the Naftali Zvi Halberstam, the fourth Bobover Rebbe, and the second oldest grandson of Shlomo Halberstam, the third Bobover Rebbe. Following the death of his father-in-law in 2005, a dispute arose as to who would be named Grand Rebbe of Bovov. Some began to follow Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam, while others followed Unger. In the end, a beth din (religious court) decided to split the two congregations, with Halberstam being declared Rebbe of Bobov () and Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger Shlita Grand Rabbi of Bobov-45 (). Although many leading Jewish Torah scholars, such as the late Rav Wosner and the late Rav Roth, fundamentally disagreed with the ruling, Rabbi Unger agreed to the ruling for the sake of peace. Rebbes of Bobov Bobov # Shlomo Halberstam (1847–1905) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satmar (Hasidic Dynasty)
Satmar (Yiddish: סאַטמאַר, Hebrew: סאטמר) is a Hasidic group founded in 1905 by Grand Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, in the city of Szatmárnémeti, Hungary (now Satu Mare in Romania). The group is an offshoot of the Sighet Hasidic dynasty. Following World War II, it was re-established in New York. Satmar is the largest Hasidic dynasty in the world, with some 26,000 households. It is characterized by extreme conservatism, complete rejection of modern culture, and fierce anti-Zionism. Satmar sponsors a comprehensive education and media system in Yiddish, and its members use Yiddish as a primary language. The sect also sponsors and leads the Central Rabbinical Congress, which serves as an umbrella organization for other very conservative, anti-Zionist, and mostly Hungarian-descended ultra-Orthodox communities. After Joel Teitelbaum's death in 1979, he was succeeded by his nephew, Moshe Teitelbaum. Since the latter's death in 2006, the dynasty is split between his two sons, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsey, New York
Monsey (, yi, מאנסי, translit=Monsi) is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Ramapo, Rockland County, New York, United States, located north of Airmont, east of Viola, south of New Hempstead, and west of Spring Valley. The village of Kaser is surrounded by the hamlet of Monsey. The 2020 census listed the population at 26,954. The hamlet has a large, and growing, community of Orthodox Jews. History Rockland County was inhabited by the Munsee band of Lenape Native Americans, who were speakers of the Algonquian languages. Monsey Glen, a Native American encampment, is located west of the intersection of State Route 59 and State Route 306. Numerous artifacts have been found there and some rock shelters are still visible. The Monsey railroad station, which received its name from an alternate spelling of the Munsee Lenape, was built when the New York & Erie Railroad passed through the glen in 1841. In the 1950s, Monsey was a one stoplight town with a singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadvorna (Hasidic Dynasty)
Nadvorna is a Hasidic rabbinical dynasty within Haredi Judaism, ultra-Orthodox Judaism. The dynasty derives its name from the town of Nadvorna, known in Ukrainian language, Ukrainian as Nadvirna. The town was located in the province of East Galicia (near the Carpathian Mountains) in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until World War I; and between the two world wars, the town was located in eastern Poland (today, it is in Ukraine). The most famous rebbe of the dynasty was Rabbi Mordechai of Nadvorna, Mordechai Leifer of Nadvorna (the son of Rabbi Yissachar Dov Ber (Bertche) Leifer of Nadvorna), whose writings form the corpus of the group's Hasidic thought. He was raised by his great-uncle, Rebbe Meir, the Second, of Premishlan (Hasidic dynasty), Premishlan. He lived a life of poverty and simplicity, as he would donate all the money that came his way to the needy. He was well known as a godly man, and a Baal Ruach HaKodesh. Hasidim from all over Hungary and Romania would come to rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordechai David Unger
Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger Shlita ( he, הרב מרדכי דוד אונגער) is the first Rebbe of Bobov-45. Biography Unger was born in 1954 to Yaakov Yitzchok Unger of Dombrov. He is the younger son-in-law of the Naftali Zvi Halberstam, the fourth Bobover Rebbe, and the second oldest grandson of Shlomo Halberstam, the third Bobover Rebbe. Following the death of his father-in-law in 2005, a dispute arose as to who would be named Grand Rebbe of Bovov. Some began to follow Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam, while others followed Unger. In the end, a beth din (religious court) decided to split the two congregations, with Halberstam being declared Rebbe of Bobov () and Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger Shlita Grand Rabbi of Bobov-45 (). Although many leading Jewish Torah scholars, such as the late Rav Wosner and the late Rav Roth, fundamentally disagreed with the ruling, Rabbi Unger agreed to the ruling for the sake of peace. Rebbes of Bobov Bobov # Shlomo Halberstam (1847–1905) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dąbrowa Tarnowska
Dąbrowa Tarnowska ( yi, Dombrov) is a town in Poland, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, about north of Tarnów. It is the capital of Dąbrowa County. Before reorganization (in 1999) Dąbrowa Tarnowska was part of Tarnów Voivodeship (1975–1998). As of December 2021, the town has a population of 11,828. Etymology The name of the town comes from oak groves, called ''dąbrowy'' in Polish, which were abundant here in the past. Dąbrowa used to be called Dambrawa Wielka (Dambrawa Magna) as well as Dobrowa, and finally the adjective “Tarnowska” was added to it, to distinguish it from Dąbrowa Górnicza and Dąbrowa Białostocka. Geography Dąbrowa lies on the Bren river, on the boundary of two geographic regions, the Carpathian Foothills and the Sandomierz Basin. History Dąbrowa Tarnowska was first mentioned as a parish village in 1326. At that time, it already was a large village, which belonged to the noble Ligeza family, and had a mill, fish farm, 60 agricultural farms and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narol (Hasidic Dynasty)
Narol is a dynasty of Hasidic Judaism, Hasidic rebbes originally based in the village of Narol (town), Narol, W. Galicia (Central Europe), Galicia (now Poland). The Naroler dynasty was founded by Rabbi Yaakov Reinman (1778–1814) (b. 5538, d. 4 Tammuz (Hebrew month), Tamuz 5574 on the Hebrew calendar), who served as rabbi of Radichow, Kozova, Kozowa and Holishits before being appointed to the rabbinate of Narol. The late Naroler Rebbe, Rabbi was born on the 25th of Elul 5667 (1907), and at the time of his death was one of the oldest living Hasidic rebbes. He was a Belz (Hasidic dynasty), Belzer Hasid, chasid. In 1927, at the age of 20, he was appointed as the 20th Rabbi of Narol. He married the daughter of Rabbi Meshulam Zalman Yosef Zilberfarb of Toporow (now Toporiv); they had a son Aharon and a daughter Malka who perished in World War II, and a son Dov Berish Shapiro, Dov Berish who is the present Naroler Rebbe. He survived World War II in Siberia; then resided in Antwerp, Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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