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[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]
In Eastern European Hasidic Judaism, during the early 19th-century, Hannah Rachel Verbermacher, also known as the Maiden of Ludmir, became the movement's only female Hasidic rebbe, [50] however, the role of rebbe relates to spiritual and communal leadership as opposed to the legal authority of "rabbi".
The Maiden of Ludmir (Yiddish: לודמירער מױד, romanized: Ludmirer Moyd, Hebrew: הבתולה מלודמיר, romanized: HabBeṭulah milLuḏmir), Hannah Rachel Verbermacher (Yiddish: חנה רחל ווערבערמאכער, romanized: Hane Rokhl Verbermakher, 1805–1888), [notes 1] also known rarely as the Ludmirer Rebbe, [1] was the only independent female rebbe in the history of ...
The Hasidic Rebbe Aharon Roth reportedly insisted on the use of this term. While Schachter-Shalomi notes that Hasidim valued the living guide over the use of books, some Rebbes, such as Shalom Dovber of Lubavitch , wrote various tracts for different types of spiritual seekers.
Chaya Mushka Schneersohn married the third Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn.She is known in the Chabad community as "Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka." Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka was an advocate for Agunot, women who are bound to their marriages by Jewish law whether through the husband's disappearance or refusal to comply with divorce proceedings.
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 .
In 2014, Telushkin released Rebbe, which appeared on the bestseller lists of New York Times Best Seller list, Wall Street Journal, [7] and Publishers Weekly. Telushkin tours the United States as a lecturer on Jewish topics, and he has been named by Talk Magazine as one of the 50 best speakers in the United States.
Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal (or Israel Abraham Portugal) (June 2, 1923 – April 1, 2019) son of Rabbi Eliezer Zusia, was the Rebbe (Grand Rabbi) of Skulen in Brooklyn, New York. [1] He was the last Holocaust era Rebbe to lead a Hasidic dynasty. [2]