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Boyaner Rebbe
Boyan () is a Hasidic Judaism, Hasidic List of Hasidic dynasties, dynasty named after the town of Boiany in the historic region of Bukovina, now in Ukraine. The Hasidut is headquartered in Jerusalem, with communities in Beitar Ilit, Bnei Brak, Manchester, Australia, Beit Shemesh, London, Antwerp, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Monsey, New York, Monsey, Lakewood, New Jersey, Lakewood, and Atlanta, Georgia, Atlanta . Boyan is one of the branches of the Ruzhin (Hasidic dynasty), Ruzhiner dynasty, together with Bohush (Hasidic dynasty), Bohush, Chortkov (Hasidic dynasty), Chortkov, Husiatyn (Hasidic dynasty), Husiatyn, Sadigura (Hasidic dynasty), Sadigura, Kapishnitz, Vasloi (Hasidic dynasty), Vaslui and Shtefanesht (Hasidic dynasty), Shtefanesht. History First Boyaner Rebbe The founder of the dynasty was Rabbi Yitzchok Friedman (1850–1917), known as the ''Pachad Yitzchok''. He was the eldest son of Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov Friedman (first Sadigura rebbe), Avrohom Yaakov Friedm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boiany
Boiany (; ; ) is a village in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is located close to Sadagura in the historic region of Bukovina. It hosts the administration of Boiany rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The Boiany rural hromada includes Boiany village, Boianivka village, Hai village and Prypruttia village. It was the ancestral estate of Ion Neculce, chronicler of the history of the Principality of Moldavia in the 18th century. History Moldavia According to legend, the village was founded by a forester raising oxen (''boi'' in Romanian) in a glade. In the Middle Ages, trade route linking Cernăuți (now Chernivtsi) with Iași passed through the village. The village is first officially attested in a document dated 8 April 1528 by Petru Rareș, ruler of Moldavia. The Boian estate is given as a wedding gift to Ion Neculce's mother, Catrina Cantacuzino, together with Cernauca and 21 other villages. Upon Neculce's flight and exile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antwerp
Antwerp (; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of Antwerp Province, and the third-largest city in Belgium by area at , after Tournai and Couvin. With a population of 565,039, it is the List of most populous municipalities in Belgium, most populous municipality in Belgium, and with a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million people, the country's Metropolitan areas in Belgium, second-largest metropolitan area after Brussels. Definitions of metropolitan areas in Belgium. Flowing through Antwerp is the river Scheldt. Antwerp is linked to the North Sea by the river's Western Scheldt, Westerschelde estuary. It is about north of Brussels, and about south of the Netherlands, Dutch border. The Port of Antwerp is one of the biggest in the world, ranking second in Europe after Rotterdam and List of world's busiest container ports, within the top 20 globally. The city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shtefanesht (Hasidic Dynasty)
Shtefanesht () was a Hasidic dynasty named for the town of Ștefănești, Romania. It was one of the branches of the Ruzhiner dynasty, together with Bohush, Boyan, Chortkov, Husiatyn, and Sadigura. The dynasty lasted from 1851 to 1933 and had only two Rebbes: Rabbi Menachem Nochum Friedman, a son of the Ruzhiner Rebbe, and Rabbi Avrohom Mattisyohu Friedman, the only son of Rabbi Menachem Nochum. During the latter's reign, Ștefănești became one of the most important Hasidic centers in Eastern Europe. Rabbinic leadership Rabbi Menachem Nochum Friedman, First Shtefaneshter Rebbe Following the death of Rabbi Yisrael Friedman of Ruzhin on 9 October 1850, his six sons established their own courts in different towns. His fourth son, Rabbi Menachem Nochum Friedman (1823–1869), moved to the town of Ștefănești in Romania.Friedman, ''The Golden Dynasty'', p. 133. Unlike the Jews of Poland and Galicia who were well-versed in Torah study and included many Torah scholars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasloi (Hasidic Dynasty)
Vasloi was a Hasidic dynasty centered in Vaslui, Romania, and founded by Rabbi Shalom Halpern, a grandson of Rabbi Yisroel Friedman of Ruzhyn in the Russian Empire. History Shalom Halpern was born on 15 Shevat, 1857, to Rabbi Dovid Halpern of Berdychiv and Leah, a daughter of Rabbi Yisroel Friedman. In 1873, aged 17, he married his cousin Chana Sarah, daughter of Rabbi Yitzchok Friedman of Buhuși (), a town in the Kingdom of Romania. He subsequently settled among the Jewish community in Buhuşi for many years, until he was nearly thirty, when his father-in-law decided that the time was ripe for him to become a ''rebbe'' himself.and sent him to the village of Răducani (''Radukan''), later part of Lunca Banului, Vaslui County where he stayed for more than 13 years. After the opening of a school in the area by the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) movement Halpern demanded it be closed and left Răducani because it was not, settling in nearby Vaslui (''Vasloi'') where a large court ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadigura (Hasidic Dynasty)
Sadigura is a Hasidic Judaism, Hasidic List of Hasidic dynasties, dynasty named for the city of Sadhora (Sadigura in Yiddish language, Yiddish), Bukovina, which was part of the Austrian Empire. The dynasty began in 1850 with Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov Friedman (first Sadigura rebbe), Avrohom Yaakov Friedman, a son of Rabbi Israel Friedman of Ruzhyn, Yisrael Friedman of Ruzhyn, and was based in Sadigura until 1914. During the interwar period the dynasty was led by rebbes (ruling hereditary dynastic rabbis) in Vienna and Przemyśl, Poland, and just before World War II moved to Israel. Sadigura is one of the branches of the Ruzhin (Hasidic dynasty), Ruzhiner dynasty, together with Bohush (Hasidic dynasty), Bohush, Boyan (Hasidic dynasty), Boyan, Chortkov (Hasidic dynasty), Chortkov, Husiatyn (Hasidic dynasty), Husiatyn, and Shtefanesht (Hasidic dynasty), Shtefanesht. As of 2013, Sadigura had several hundred members in Israel, the United States and Europe. Its members reside in Israel i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Husiatyn (Hasidic Dynasty)
Husiatyn is the name of a Hasidic dynasty, whose founder was a scion of the Ruzhiner dynasty. Husiatyn is located in present-day Ukraine. History It started with the Rebbe Rabbi Mordechai Shraga Feivish Friedman, the youngest son of Rabbi Israel Friedmann of Rizhin. Reb Mordechai Shraga Feivish was only 16 when his father died and when he turned 30 in 1865, he moved to Husiatyn where he established a large Hasidic court. He died during the spring of 1894 and was succeeded by his son Reb Yisroel who took over the position of rebbe in Husiatyn until 1912. At the outbreak of World War I, he together with other Rebbes of Rizhin moved to Vienna, subsequently settling there. From time to time he made trips to visit his chassidim that remained in Galicia. The Admorim of Rizhin were known for their love of the Land of Israel, and Reb Yisroel's feelings were especially deep. The Husiatyn Rebbe was very pro yishuv ha'aretz, settling the land with frum Jews, in order to have influenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chortkov (Hasidic Dynasty)
Chortkov (also ''Chortkov'', ''Tshortkov'', ''Czortkow'') is a Hasidic dynasty that originated in Chortkiv (), present-day Ukraine. The town was part of the Tarnopol Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic until September 1939. The town itself was founded in 1522 by Polish King Sigismund I the Old. The dynasty had a large following before the Second World War, but most of its adherents were murdered in the Holocaust. Chortkov is one of the branches of the Ruzhiner dynasty, together with the Bohush, Boyan, Husiatyn, Sadigura, Kapishnitz, Vasloi, and Shtefanesht dynasties. Chortkov dynasty history Duvid Moshe Friedman The first Rebbe of Chortkov was Rabbi Duvid Moshe Friedman (1828–1903), son of Rabbi Yisroel Friedman of Ruzhyn. He was born in 1828 on the festival of Shavuos. His first wife was the daughter of Rabbi Aaron Twerski of Chernobyl. In 1865, 14 years after his father's death, he settled in Chortkov forming his own community there. Rabbi David Moshe complet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohush (Hasidic Dynasty)
Bohush () 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 based in that town until 1951, when his great-grandson, Rabbi Yitzchok Friedman of Bohush-Tel Aviv, moved the dynasty to Tel Aviv. In 1987 the Bohush '' beis medrash'' was transferred to Bnei Brak, where the dynasty is led today by Rabbi Yaakov Mendel Friedman, a great-great-grandson of the first Bohusher Rebbe.Friedman, ''The Golden Dynasty'', p. 244. Rabbi Yaakov Mendel leads his court at 12 Rechov Chaggai, a few doors away from the original Kloyz in Bnei Brak. He leads it with a fire and a passion. Since he took on the mantle of leadership, the Hasidus has expanded tremendously with three yeshivos, two kollels, and communities all over Israel, in The United States, Antwerp and London. Bohush is one of the branches of the Ruzhiner dynasty, together with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruzhin (Hasidic Dynasty)
Ruzhin (or Rizhin) is the name of a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rabbi Yisroel Friedman (1796–1850) in the town of Ruzhyn, Ukraine, today an urban-type settlement in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. Friedman was the first and only Ruzhiner Rebbe. However, his sons and grandsons founded their own dynasties which are collectively known as the "House of Ruzhin". These dynasties, which follow many of the traditions of the Ruzhiner Rebbe, are Bohush, Boyan, Chortkov, Husiatyn, Sadigura, and Shtefanesht. The dynasties of Vizhnitz and Vasloi are related to the Ruzhiner Rebbe through his daughters. History Rabbi Yisroel Friedman was a direct descendant through the male line of Rabbi Dov Ber, the Maggid of Mezritch (1704-1772), the main disciple of the Baal Shem Tov. Friedman's father, Rabbi Sholom Shachne of Prohobisht (1769-1802), died when he was six years old. His older brother, Avrohom (1787–1812), became Rebbe of their father's Hasidim upon their father's death. When Rab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georgia, Fulton County and extends into neighboring DeKalb County, Georgia, DeKalb County. With a population of 520,070 (2024 estimate) living within the city limits, Atlanta is the eighth most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast and List of United States cities by population, 36th most populous city in the United States according to the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census. Atlanta is classified as a Globalization and World Cities Research Network#Beta +, Beta + global city and is the principal city of the much larger Atlanta metropolitan area, the core of which includes Cobb County, Georgia, Cobb, Clayton County, Georgia, Clayton and Gwinnett County, Georgia, Gwinnett counties, in addition to Fulton and DeKalb. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakewood, New Jersey
Lakewood Township is the most populous township in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. A rapidly growing community, as of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 135,158, its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 42,315 (+45.6%) from the 2010 census count of 92,843, which in turn reflected an increase of 32,491 (+53.8%) from the 60,352 counted in the 2000 census. The township ranked as the fifth-most-populous municipality in the state in 2020, after ranking seventh in 2010, and 22nd in 2000, placing the township only behind the state's four biggest cities ( Newark; Jersey City; Paterson; Elizabeth).The Counties and Most Populous Cities and Townships in 2010 in New Jersey: 2000 and 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsey, New York
Monsey (, ) is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Ramapo, Rockland County, New York, United States, north of Airmont, east of Viola, south of New Hempstead, and west of Spring Valley. The village of Kaser is surrounded by the hamlet of Monsey. The 2020 census listed the population at 26,954. The hamlet has a large, and growing, community of Haredi Jews. History Rockland County was inhabited by the Munsee band of Lenape Native Americans, who were speakers of the Algonquian languages. Monsey Glen, a Native American encampment, is west of the intersection of State Route 59 and State Route 306. Numerous artifacts have been found there and some rock shelters are still visible. The Monsey railroad station, named from an alternate spelling of the Munsee Lenape, was built when the New York & Erie Railroad passed through the glen in 1841. In 1943, Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz purchased a property in Monsey with the intention to raise the education level of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
