Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam ( he, בן ציון אריה לייבוש הלברשטאם) is the current leader of the

Bobov 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 Br ...

Hasidic Hasidism, sometimes spelled Chassidism, and also known as Hasidic Judaism (Ashkenazi Hebrew: חסידות ''Ḥăsīdus'', ; originally, "piety"), is a Jewish religious group that arose as a spiritual revival movement in the territory of contem ...

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. He was born in 1955 to the third Bobover rebbe, Grand Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam and his second wife; Grand Rabbi Shlomo had lost his first wife and most of their children in the Holocaust. His son from his first marriage,

Naftali Halberstam Naftali Tzvi Halberstam ( he, ר' נפתלי צבי הלברשטאם) (1931–2005) was the Grand Rebbe of Bobov from August 2000 until March 2005. He succeeded his father, Shlomo Halberstam (1907–2000), as Grand Rebbe of Bobov. Early life Na ...

, survived and would eventually become the fourth Bobver Rebber. After his father's passing in 2000, Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish older half-brother, Grand Rabbi

was appointed to be the fourth Bobover Rebbe, and Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish was appointed as '' Rav Hatza'ir'' ("Younger" Rabbi). After Grand Rabbi Naftali's passing in 2005, the Bobov Community split their fellowship between the younger brother Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam and the son in law

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, t ...

, called

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 Br ...

Rebbes of Bobov

# Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam (1847–1905), grandson of the Sanzer Rebbe, Rabbi Chaim Halberstam # Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam (1874–1941) # Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam (1907–2000) # Rabbi Naftali Halberstam (1931–2005), older son of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam #Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam (b. 1955), younger son of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam

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Kol Bobov: Bobover Music (Yiddish Site), of Ben Zion Halberstam

Link to Bais Din Ruling (in Hebrew)
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Rebbes of Bobov

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