Reb Shmuel ben Avraham Yeshayahu of Karov (

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: שמואל בן אברהם ישעיהו מקארוב; - 1820) was a late 18th-century

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who was a leading disciple of both

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and

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Biography

Born in

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around 1735. His father Avraham Yeshayahu ben David Shmuel was the grandson of Judah Leib ben Isaac and thus the great-great-grandson of

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. Despite his illustrious pedigree, he grew up in immense poverty, to the point where the community needed to support him during the Jewish holidays. In his early years, Reb Shmuel became a disciple of Elimelech of Lizhensk later traveling to Lublin, where he became one of the main disciples of Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin who helped Reb Shmuel to head a small yeshiva in Lublin. In 1815, Reb Shmuel became the head of his own Hasidic court in

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, which received thousands of young Hasidim from surrounding areas. Among his most notable followers were

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and Yechezkel Taub, who founded Kuzmir Hasidism. After his death, his eldest son, Reb Dovid refused to succeed him as head of the court in Kurów and thus he majority of his followers travelled to

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. Several of Reb Shmuel's teaching were collected in "Shir La'Chasidim" published in 1930 in

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References

1820 deaths Hasidic Judaism 18th-century Polish rabbis People from Prudnik Year of birth uncertain