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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 ...
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 .
Yehuda Leib "Leibel" Groner (Yiddish: יהודה ליב גראנער; April 25, 1931 – April 7, 2020) was an American Hasidic Jewish teacher, scholar, and author. He is best known for having served as the personal secretary to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, for 40 years.
Yissachar Dov Rokeach (born 19 January 1948) [1] is the fifth, and present, Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Belz.He is the son of Rabbi Mordechai of Bilgoray (1902 – 1949), the grandson of the third Belzer Rebbe, Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach, and the nephew of the fourth Belzer Rebbe, Rabbi Aharon Rokeach, who raised him.
The Kopust group was founded following the death of the third rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the Tzemach Tzedek. At the time of Rabbi Menachem Mendel's death, several of his sons assumed the title of rebbe, splitting the movement into several groups. Following Chabad-Lubavitch, the Kapust group was the longest surviving group.
A historic Brooklyn synagogue that serves as the center of an influential Hasidic Jewish movement was trashed this week during an unusual community dispute that began with the discovery of a ...
Most significant of all was his accessibility to the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn and the fact that he was able to go into private audience with him. On the outbreak of World War II, he returned to America and in 1940 he was among the first students who sat down to learn in the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in 770 Eastern Parkway .
Unger was born to Yaakov Yitzchok Unger of Dombrov. [1] [2] He is the younger son-in-law of Naftali Zvi Halberstam, the fourth Bobover Rebbe.[1]Following the death of his father-in-law right before the Purim holiday in 2005, [3] a dispute arose as to who should be the Grand Rebbe of the then 120,000 Bobov Hasidim worldwide. [1]