Shulem Moskovitz (23 November 1877 – 14 January 1958), known as the Shotzer Rebbe, was a Romanian

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rabbi. He was a descendant of the famed hasidic

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Yechiel Michel of Zlotshov.

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Moskovitz emigrated to

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, before

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, settling in

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, a part of London where not many hasidic Jews lived then. In London, he became known as the ''Shotzer Rebbe''. He established a ''Beis Medrash'' affiliated to the

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. Rabbi Shulem was the son of Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Moshe of Sulitza. He married Shlomtza, his first cousin, the daughter of his father's brother, Rabbi Meir, and his first wife, Dinah. The Shotzer Rebbe wrote several volumes of

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commentaries named ''Daas Sholom'', are arranged according to the order of ''

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''. He was a genius both in the revealed Torah and in Kabbala, and lived a lifestyle of holiness and simplicity. Among the Shotzer Rebbe's descendants are Rabbi David Moskowitz, the Shotzer Rebbe of

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, and Rabbi Y. M. Moskowitz, the shotz-drubitz'r rabbi (Brooklyn / bet shemesh), and Rabbi Naftali Asher Yeshayahu Moskowitz, the Melitzer Rebbe, also in Ashdod, author of several books, including ''Peiros Hailan'' on the laws of

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, and ''Nefesh Chaya'', a commentary and interpretation of the

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. Moskovitz died in London on 14 January 1958, at the age of 80. He is buried in the Adath Yisroel cemetery in Enfield. An '' ohel'' was built over his grave. His gravesite is known as a source of yeshuos and people from all over the world travel to his kever to seek salvations; it is a place of pilgrimage every Friday Moskovitz left an ethical will specifying that anyone could come to his grave and ask for his help, as long as they undertake to better themselves in at least one way in exchange.Kesher Community Website
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