Husiatyn is the name of a

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, whose founder was a scion of the Ruzhiner dynasty.

Husiatyn Husiatyn ( uk, Гусятин; yi, הוסיאַטין, Husyatin) is an urban-type settlement in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. Alternate spellings include Gusyatin, Husyatin, and Hsiatyn. It hosts the administratio ...

is located in present-day

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History

It started with the

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Rabbi Mordechai Shraga Feivish Friedman, the youngest son of Rabbi

Israel Friedmann Israel Friedman of Ruzhyn ( he, ישראל פרידמן מרוז'ין) (5 October 1796 – 9 October 1850Assaf, ''The Regal Way'', p. 170.), also called Israel Ruzhin, was a Hasidic Judaism, Hasidic ''Admor, rebbe'' in 19th-century Ukraine and Au ...

of Rizhin. Reb Mordechai Shraga Feivish was only 16 when his father died and when he turned 30 in 1865, he moved to

where he established a large Hasidic court. He died during the spring of 1894 and was succeeded by his son Reb Yisroel who took over the position of rebbe in Husiatyn until 1912. At the outbreak of

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, he together with other Rebbes of Rizhin moved to

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, subsequently settling there. From time to time he made trips to visit his chassidim that remained in Galicia. The Admorim of Rizhin were known for their love of the

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, and Reb Yisroel's feelings were especially deep. The Husiatyn Rebbe was very pro yishuv ha'aretz, settling the land with frum Jews, in order to have influence over secular Jews settling the land. He wanted to exert a more Torah and Jewish influence to a very secular Zionism. When one of the rebbes of Rizhin died, plans were made to establish a Rizhin section in the Jewish cemetery in Vienna. The rebbe of Husiatyn stated that there would be no need to take him into account as he proposed to emigrate to

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. And so it was, during the 1930s, Reb Yisroel made plans to make

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. He traveled around

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to bid farewell to his followers and warn them of the impending danger. He urged them to make aliyah and leave Europe. As a result of the increased

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he had witnessed, himself being a victim of stone throwers in a Viennese street, he had visions of what was to befall the Jewish people in the years to come. In Cracow he was reported to have instructed: "Whoever has some sense should flee while he can - even in his slippers!" To the Jews who came to the train station in

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to greet him he said: "Whoever can sell his property should do so, and those who are unable to sell should leave everything and flee from here, even if only with a sack on his back!" In 1937 the rebbe docked at

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and settled in Tel Aviv. Aged 80 and the only surviving grandson of the Rizhiner Rebbe, he was considered the "elder" of the rebbes of Rizhin. During the summer months he would reside in

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until the 3rd of

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, the

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of his grandfather. On that day he would visit the

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and go to pray at the grave of the holy Ohr Hachaim on the

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. He led his Hasidim for over 50 years until he died in Tel Aviv aged 92. In his

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he requested to be buried on the Mount of Olives and if that was not possible, in

Safad Safed (known in Hebrew as Tzfat; Sephardic Hebrew & Modern Hebrew: צְפַת ''Tsfat'', Ashkenazi Hebrew: ''Tzfas'', Biblical Hebrew: ''Ṣǝp̄aṯ''; ar, صفد, ''Ṣafad''), is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Located at an elevat ...

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. When he died on the fifth day of

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1949, the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem was inaccessible being under Jordanian control. As he died on a Friday there was also not enough time to organise a plot in the ancient Jewish cemetery in Safed. He was therefore buried in Tiberias amongst the students of the

Baal Shem Tov Israel ben Eliezer (1698 – 22 May 1760), known as the Baal Shem Tov ( he, בעל שם טוב, ) or as the Besht, was a Jewish mystic and healer who is regarded as the founder of Hasidic Judaism. "Besht" is the acronym for Baal Shem Tov, which ...

. His son-in-law, Rabbi Yaakov Freidman, a son of the Bohusher Rebbe, Rabbi Yitzchok Friedman, was appointed as the new leader. He continued the dynasty until his death in 1957 when his son Reb Yitzchok took over. When Reb Yitzchok died in 1968, the Husiatyn dynasty ended. Today the Husiatyn

Beth midrash A ''beth midrash'' ( he, בית מדרש, or ''beis medrash'', ''beit midrash'', pl. ''batei midrash'' "House of Learning") is a hall dedicated for Torah study, often translated as a "study hall." It is distinct from a synagogue (''beth kness ...

on Bialik Street, Tel Aviv, continues to be used for prayer and study.

Lineage of the Husiatyn dynasty

External links

The Rebbe of Husiatyn: Elder of the House of Rizhin

The synagogue of the Admor of Husiatyn in Tel Aviv

References

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History

Lineage of the Husiatyn dynasty

External links

See also

References