Naftali Tzvi Halberstam ( he, ר' נפתלי צבי הלברשטאם) (1931–2005) was the Grand

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of Bobov from August 2000 until March 2005. He succeeded his father, Shlomo Halberstam (1907–2000), as Grand Rebbe of Bobov.

Early life

Naftali Tzvi Halberstam was born in

Bobowa Bobowa ( yi, בּאָבּאָוו, ''Bobov'') is a small town in Gorlice County, southern Poland. Administratively part of the Lesser Polish Voivodeship, it is situated west of Gorlice and south-east of the regional capital Kraków. It was f ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is divided into Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 mill ...

in 1931 (25 Sivan, 5691) to Shlomo Halberstam, the third Bobover Rebbe. His mother and two siblings were murdered in the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

, and after the war, Naftali's father Shlomo had arranged for him to go to

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 i ...

. Shlomo remained in Europe, and Naftali was unsure if his father had survived the war.

Post-war

Halberstam lived for several years in

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

, where he received his

rabbinical ordination Semikhah ( he, סמיכה) is the traditional Jewish name for rabbinic ordination. The original ''semikhah'' was the formal "transmission of authority" from Moses through the generations. This form of ''semikhah'' ceased between 360 and 425 C ...

. In 1951, after discovering that his father had survived the war and relocated to New York in the late 1940s, he joined him there. Upon his father's death in 2000, he became the Grand Rebbe of Bobov in Borough Park, Brooklyn. He died on March 23, 2005 (12 Adar, 5765). Halberstam was buried next to his father in

Floral Park Cemetery Floral Park Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in South Brunswick, New Jersey, where many prominent Hassidic Rabbis are buried, including Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam and Rabbi Naftali Halberstam of Bobov, Rabbi Hershele Horowitz of Spinka, Rabbi Yechezk ...

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. Halberstam's wife, Rebbetzin Hesa, died on May 15, 2011 (11 Iyar, 5771) aged 80. Halberstam left no sons, only two daughters. His older daughter is married to Yehoshua Rubin, the current Bobov-45 ''dayan'' (judge). His younger daughter is married to the first Bobov-45 Rebbe, Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger Shlita.

Rebbes of Bobov

# Shlomo Halberstam (1847–1905) grandson of the Sanzer Rebbe,

Chaim Halberstam Chaim Halberstam of Sanz (1793–1876) ( he, חיים הלברשטאם מצאנז), known as the ''Divrei Chaim'' after his sefer (works), was the rabbi of Sanz ( pl, Nowy Sącz), a famous Hasidic Rebbe and the founder of the Sanz Hasidic ...

Ben Zion Halberstam Ben Zion Halberstam (1874–1941) was the second Bobover Rebbe. He was murdered by the Nazis in 1941. Biography Halberstam was born in Bikofsk in 1874. His father was Shlomo Halberstam (1847–1905), the first Rebbe of Bobov, and a scion of ...

(1874–1941) # Shlomo Halberstam (1907–2000) # Naftali Halberstam (1931–2005) #

Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam ( he, בן ציון אריה לייבוש הלברשטאם) is the current leader of the Bobov Hasidic dynasty A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family,''Oxford English Dictionary'', ...

(b.1955), current Rebbe, younger son of Shlomo Halberstam :* Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger Shlita (b. 1954), current and first Bobov-45 Rebbe, son-in-law of Naftali Halberstam

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Wedding video with Grand Rabbi Naftali Halberstam - Part 1Part 2

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Early life

Post-war

Rebbes of Bobov

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