Shmuel Yitzchok Bornsztain (born 1961), also spelled Borenstein or Bernstein, is the sixth

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of the Sochatchov

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dynasty.

Biography

Bornsztain was born in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

in 1961. His father was Rabbi

Menachem Shlomo Bornsztain Menachem Shlomo Bornsztain (11 October 1934–10 August 1969), also spelled Borenstein, Bornstein, or Bernstein, was the fifth Rebbe of the Sochatchov Hasidic dynasty. He acceded to the position of Rebbe following the death of his father, Rabb ...

who the fifth Rebbe of Sochatchov, the fifth Rebbe of

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and Rabbi of the Yad Eliyahu neighborhood in Tel Aviv. Bornsztain was orphaned in 1969 at the age of 8, when his father was killed in a car accident. Bornsztain attended the

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. In the early 1980's, Bornsztain married Rivka Shternbuch a granddaughter of Grand Rabbi Boruch Hager of Seret-Vihznitz. Rivka's father, Rabbi Eliyahu Shternbuch was the

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of the Machzikei Hadaas Kehilla. He was a brother of Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch and a brother-in-law of Rabbi

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. Bornsztain's son, Meir, is married to a daughter of Grand Rabbi

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Sochatchover Rebbe

In 1987, 18 years after the sudden death of his father, Bornsztain acceded to the position of Sochatchover Rebbe. The Rebbe leads the Sochatchover dynasty from the

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neighborhood of Jerusalem, where the Sochatchov

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, Yeshivat Avnei Nezer, is located. In 2018, he established an additional

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and

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Rebbes of Sochatchov

Avrohom Bornsztain Avrohom Bornsztain (14 October 1838 – 7 February 1910), also spelled Avraham Borenstein or Bernstein, was a leading posek in late-nineteenth-century Europe and founder and first Rebbe of the Sochatchover Hasidic dynasty. He is known as the ...

, the ''Avnei Nezer'' (1838–1910) # Shmuel Bornsztain, the ''Shem Mishmuel'' (1856–1926) #

Dovid Bornsztain Dovid Bornsztain (1876 – 17 November 1942), also spelled Borenstein, Bornstein and Bernstein, known as the Chasdei Dovid, was the third Rebbe of the Sochatchov Hasidic dynasty. He succeeded his father, Rabbi Shmuel Bornsztain, as Rebbe u ...

(1876–1942) #

Chanoch Henoch Bornsztain Chanoch Henoch Bornsztain (died 23 September 1965), also spelled Borenstein or Bernstein, was the fourth Rebbe of the Sochatchov Hasidic dynasty. He acceded to the position of Rebbe following the death of his older brother, Rabbi Dovid Bornsztain ...

(d. 1965) #

(1934–1969) # Shmuel Yitzchok Bornsztain (b. 1961)

References

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