Shpikov is a
Hasidic dynasty
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originating in
Shpykiv
Shpykiv (, pl, Szpików) is an urban-type settlement in Tulchyn Raion (a district in Vinnytsia Oblast (province) in central Ukraine, southwest of Kyiv and northwest of Tulchyn, the raion center. Population: . It is located in the historic regio ...
. The dynasty is derived from the
Skver dynasty, which in turn is derived from the
Chernobyl dynasty.
The first
rebbe
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of Shpikov was Rabbi Menachem Nochum Twersky of Shpykiv.
Lineage
*Rabbi Yitzchak Twersky of Skver
**Rabbi Menachem Nochum Twersky of Shpikov (died March 26, 1887, at Shpikov), second son of Rabbi Yitzchak
***Rabbi Mordechai Twersky of Shpikov (born 1862, died April 14, 1914, at Shpikov), son of Rabbi Menachem Nochum
****Rabbi Yitschok Nochum Twersky of Shpikov (born 1888 at Shpikov, perished 1942 at
Belzec extermination camp
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) son of Rabbi Mordechai
****Rabbi Sholom Yosef Friedman of Shpikov (died March 1920 of
typhus
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),
son of Rabbi Dovid Friedman of
Bohush and son-in-law of Rabbi Mordechai
*****Rabbi Dovid Friedman of Shpikov-
Ploiești
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, son of Rabbi Sholom Yosef
*****Rabbi Yitzchok Friedman of Bohush-Shpikov (born May 1903 at Shpikov, died Wednesday, August 12, 1992, at
Arosa
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), son of Rabbi Sholom Yosef and husband of his cousin, Yocheved Feige, daughter of Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Bohush
See also
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Hasidic Judaism
Hasidism, sometimes spelled Chassidism, and also known as Hasidic Judaism (Ashkenazi Hebrew: חסידות ''Ḥăsīdus'', ; originally, "piety"), is a Judaism, Jewish religious group that arose as a spiritual revival movement in the territory ...
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Hasidic rebbes
Hasidism, sometimes spelled Chassidism, and also known as Hasidic Judaism (Ashkenazi Hebrew: חסידות ''Ḥăsīdus'', ; originally, "piety"), is a Jewish religious group that arose as a spiritual revival movement in the territory of contem ...
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Skver (Hasidic dynasty)
Skver (also Skvir, Skvere, or Skwere; yi, סקווירא) is the name of a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rebbe Yitzchok Twersky in the city of Skver (as known in Yiddish; or Skvyra, in present-day Ukraine) during the mid-19th century. Followers o ...
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Bohush (Hasidic dynasty)
Bohush ( yi, בוהוש) is a Hasidic dynasty named for the town of Buhuși, Romania. The dynasty began in the mid-nineteenth century with Rabbi Yitzchok Friedman of Bohush, the eldest grandson of Rabbi Yisrael Friedman of Ruzhyn, and was bas ...
References
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