Radzymin was a Polish Chasidic dynasty named after the town of its founder Yaakov Aryeh Guterman who came from

Radzymin Radzymin is a town in Poland and is one of the distant suburbs of the city of Warsaw. It is located in the powiat of Wołomin of the Masovian Voivodeship. The town has 8,818 inhabitants (as of 2008, but the surrounding commune is heavily pop ...

History

Jews had first started settling in Radzymin in the middle of the seventeenth-century. By 1840 the community erected their first synagogue. In 1848, after the death of Rabbi Yitzchok of Vurka, Rabbi Yaakov Guterman founded the Radzymin dynasty and brought the teachings 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 ...

to Radzymin making it a Chasidic centre.

Leaders

* Yaakov Aryeh Guterman (1792-1874), founder and first leader ('' admur'') of the Radzymin Hasidic dynasty. * Shlomo Yehoshua David Guterman son of Rebbe Yaakov Aryeh the, second admur of Radzymin. * Aharon Menachem Mendel Guterman (1860-1934), son of Rebbe Shlomo Yehoshua David, the third and last admur of Radzymin

References

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