Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam ( he, בן ציון אריה לייבוש הלברשטאם) is the current leader of the
Bobov Hasidic
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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, 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
Naftali Halberstam 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, called
Bobov-45.
Rebbes of Bobov
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Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam (1847–1905), grandson of the
Sanzer Rebbe,
Rabbi Chaim Halberstam
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Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam (1874–1941)
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Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam (1907–2000)
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Rabbi Naftali Halberstam (1931–2005), older son of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam
#Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam (b. 1955), younger son of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam
See also
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Bobov
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Bobowa, Poland
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Rabbi Chaim Halberstam
References
External links
Kol Bobov: Bobover Music (Yiddish Site), of Ben Zion HalberstamLink to Bais Din Ruling (in Hebrew)
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1955 births
Living people
Rebbes of Bobov
American Hasidic rabbis
Rabbis from New York (state)
People from Borough Park, Brooklyn
Descendants of the Baal Shem Tov