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Distinguished from a dynasty, a Hasidic group or Chassidic group has the following characteristics: It was founded by a leader who did not appoint or leave a successor; It may be named after a key town in Eastern Europe where the founder may have been born or lived, or where the group began to grow and flourish, or it may be named after the ...
Those who supported the tunnel, meanwhile, said they were carrying out an “expansion” plan long envisioned by the former head of the Chabad movement, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
Grand Rebbe Shmuel Halberstam officiating over the tish celebrating the Jewish holiday of Purim, video taken in his synagogue in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn, New York. This article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
Yaakov Aryeh Alter (Polish: Jakub Arie Alter, Hebrew: יעקב אריה אלתר, born 18 May 1939) is the eighth, and current, Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he has held since 1996. He lives in Israel, and has followers there and in the United States, Europe, and Canada.
[citation needed] Deutsch is the Rebbe of Anshei-Liozna, a Chasidic court that is centered in Boro Park, Brooklyn. He has been the Liozna Rebbe since 1995. The group appointed him their Rebbe at their synagogue on 45th Street in Brooklyn. He took the name of the town of Liozna in Belarus (where the early Chabad movement was founded). [7]
Burshtin is a Hasidic dynasty headed by Grand Rabbi David Eichenstein, the Burshteiner Rebbe. The main Burshteiner synagogue is located in Borough Park, Brooklyn. The group originated in Burshtyn, now located in Ukraine, but was once part of Austria-Hungary. The Grand Rebbe is a scion of many great rabbinical dynasties, including Zidichov and ...
Right after his father's passing in 2000, Naftali was appointed as fourth Bobover Rebbe at age 69, [1] while Halberstam was appointed as Rav Hatza'ir (assistant rabbi). Naftali died right before the Purim holiday in 2005, [ 4 ] which led to a succession crisis over who should be the Grand Rebbe of the many Bobov Hasidim worldwide. [ 1 ]