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Rokeach
Rokeach or Rokach (Hebrew for "apothecary", "perfume", "perfumer" or "pharmacist") is the surname of: * Aharon Rokeach (1877–1957), the fourth Belzer rebbe * Elazar Rokeach (c. 1176 – 1238), Talmudist and kabbalist * Elazar Rokeach of Amsterdam, (c. 1665–1742), rabbi * Israel Rokach (1886–1959), Israeli politician * Joel Rokach (1909–1965), Italian–Israeli physicist and mathematician * Lucy Rokach, English professional poker player * Malka Rokeach, the first Belzer ''rebbetzin'' * Milton Rokeach (1918–1988), Professor of social psychology * Sholom Rokeach (1779–1855), the first Belzer rebbe * Yehoshua Rokeach (1825–1894), the second Belzer rebbe * Yehoshua Rokeach of Machnovka (born 1949), current Machnovka Rebbe * Yissachar Dov Rokeach (born 1948), the fifth Belzer rebbe * Yissachar Dov Rokeach (1854–1926), the third Belzer rebbe Rokach may also refer to: * Rokach (river), a river in Bucha Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine Ukraine is a country in East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aharon Rokeach
Aharon Rokeach (; 19 December 1880Israel, Yosef (2005). "Rescuing the Rebbe of Belz". NY:Mesorah Publications, Ltd. . – 18 August 1957) was the fourth Rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty. He led the movement from 1926 until he died in 1957. Rokeach inherited the mantle of leadership from his father, Yissachar Dov Rokeach, upon the latter's death in 1926. Known for his piety and mysticism, Rokeach was called the "Wonder Rabbi" by Jews and Gentiles alike for the miracles he purportedly performed. His reign as Rebbe saw the devastation of the Belz community, along with that of many other Hasidic sects in Galicia and elsewhere in Poland during the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, Rebbe Aharon was high on the list of Gestapo targets as a high-profile Rebbe. With the support and financial assistance of Belzer Hasidim in Mandatory Palestine, England, and the United States, he and his half-brother, Rabbi Mordechai of Bilgoray, managed to escape from Poland into Hungary, then into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehoshua Rokeach
Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach (1825 – February 3, 1894), known as the ''Mitteler Ruv'', was the second Rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty. He combined Torah scholarship with practical common sense to guide thousands of Hasidim and to fight the Haskalah ("Enlightenment") movement that was making inroads in Jewish communities in Poland during the nineteenth century. His pioneering activities included founding the Machzikei Hadas organization. Family Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach was the youngest of five sons of Rabbi Sholom Rokeach (the ''Sar Shalom''), founder of the Belz dynasty. His eldest brother was named Elazar.Padwa, Rabbi Akiva Osher. "Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach, the 'Mittler' Belzer Rav, ''zt"l'', in honor of his 118th ''yahrtzeit'', 23 Shevat". ''Hamodia'' Magazine, February 16, 2012, pp. 5-6. His father was his primary teacher. Yehoshua married a granddaughter of the Apter Rov and had five sons and four daughters. Leadership The notion of a son succeeding a father as Rebbe was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yissachar Dov Rokeach (fifth Belzer Rebbe)
Yissachar Dov Rokeach (born 19 January 1948)Landesman, Yerucham. "Born to Lead: How did the Belzer Rebbe breathe new life into a shattered Chassidus?" ''Mishpacha'', 10 October 2011, pp. 30–51. 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. He has led Belz since 1966. Family background Rabbi Mordechai of Bilgoray and his half-brother (through his father), Rebbe Aharon, escaped Europe in a daring escape attempt and arrived in Palestine in 1944. Both lost their wives and families to the Nazis. Both remarried in Israel; Rabbi Mordechai's second wife was Miriam,Landesman, Yeruchem. "The Younger Brother". ''Mishpacha'', 15 November 2006, p. 27. the daughter of Rabbi Hershel Glick of Satmar. Only Rabbi Mordechai had a child, Yissachar Dov. In Novemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sholom Rokeach
Sholom Rokeach (1781 – September 10, 1855), also known as the ''Sar Sholom'' (, "Angel of Peace"), was the first rebbe (hereditary hasidic leader) of the Belz dynasty . Belzer Hasidim call him "Der Ershter Rov" (the first rabbi); in the city of Belz itself he was called "Der Alter Rov" (the old rabbi) in deference to Yoel Sirkis, who presided as rabbi of Belz in the sixteenth century. Biography His mother was Rivka Henna Ramraz. and his father was Rabbi Eleazar Rokeach, of Brody, who was the grandson of Rabbi Elazar Rokeach of Amsterdam, author of ''Maaseh Rokeach'', who was rabbi of Brody until 1736, then Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam. After his father died at the age of 32, his mother lived in Brody with her five children. She sent Sholom, around 11 years old at the time, to be raised by her brother, Rabbi Yissachar Dov Ramraz, rabbi of Skohl, then in Galicia. Later on, he married Rabbi Yissachar Dov's daughter, Malka. They had five sons and two daughters. According to Czech w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yissachar Dov Rokeach (third Belzer Rebbe)
Yissachar Dov Rokeach (1854 – 29 October 1926)''A World That Was'', ''Hamodia'' Magazine, 12 November 2009, p. 15. was the third Rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty. He was the second son of Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach (the second Rebbe of Belz), and served as the third Belzer Rebbe from his father's death in 1894 until his own death in 1926. Personal life Yissachar Dov was born in the town of Belz, Galicia. His grandfather, Rabbi Sholom Rokeach, the founder of the Belz dynasty, named him after his own father-in-law, Rabbi Yissachar Dov Ramraz, the ''av beit din'' of Sokal. Yissachar Dov married Basha Ruchama, the daughter of Rabbi Yeshaya Zushe Twersky of Chernobyl and granddaughter of Rabbi Aaron Twersky of Chernobyl. They had two children: Aharon Rokeach, who would assume the mantle of leadership of the Belz Hasidim after his father's death, and Chana Rochel, who married Pinchos Twerski of Ustila. After his first wife died, Yissachar Dov remarried Chaya Devora, daughter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleazar Of Worms
Eleazar of Worms (אלעזר מוורמייזא - also מגרמייזא of Garmiza or Garmisa) (c. 1176–1238), or Eleazar ben Judah ben Kalonymus, also sometimes known today as Eleazar Rokeach ("Eleazar the Perfumer" אלעזר רקח) from the title of his ''Book of the Perfumer'' (''Sefer ha rokeah'' ספר הרקח)—where the numerical value of "Perfumer" (in Hebrew) is equal to Eleazar, was a prominent Kabbalist and halakhic authority, among the greatest of the '' Hasidei Ashkenaz'' and a disciple of Rabbi Judah the Pious. He was the author of the ''Sefer ha-Rokeach'' (Rokeach in gematria = Eleazar), one of the Tosafists, and wrote many Kabbalistic works, most of which survive only in manuscript form. He served as a rabbi and judge in Worms, and instituted customs still observed in Ashkenazic communities today. He was called "the Rokeach" after his book, though he was often mistakenly referred to as "Rabbi Eliezer of Germiza". Due to this confusion, he was sometim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Rokeach
Milton Rokeach (born in Hrubieszów as Mendel Rokicz, December 27, 1918 – October 25, 1988) was a Polish-born American social psychologist. He taught at Michigan State University, the University of Western Ontario, Washington State University, and the University of Southern California. A ''Review of General Psychology'' survey, published in 2002, ranked Rokeach as the 85th most cited psychologist of the 20th century. Early life Born to Jewish parents in Hrubieszów, Poland, Rokeach emigrated to the United States with his parents at age seven. After graduating from Brooklyn College, he received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1947. Contributions to psychology From 1959 to 1961, Rokeach conducted a well-known experiment at the Ypsilanti State Hospital in which he observed the interaction of three mentally ill patients, each of whom believed he was Jesus Christ. The resulting publication, ''The Three Christs of Ypsilanti'', was Rokeach's most famo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehoshua Rokeach Of Machnovka
Grand Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach (; born 1949), the current Machnovka Rebbe of Bnei Brak, is a great-nephew of Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshl of Machnovka, the third Machnovker Rebbe. As a scion of the Belz dynasty The lineage of the present Machnovker Rebbe from the Belz dynasty is as follows: *Grand Rabbi Shalom Rokeach, author of ''Sar Shalom'', the first Belzer Rebbe, a disciple of the Seer of Lublin **Grand Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach, son of the ''Sar Shalom'', second Belzer Rebbe ***Grand Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach, son of Rabbi Yehoshua, the third Belzer Rebbe. He first married Basia Rochma, daughter of Rabbi Yeshaya Meshullam Zusya Twersky. Then he married Chaya Devora of the Pychenik family of Berezna. The Belz connection with Chernobyl was strong. Rabbi Issachar, though a Belzer Rebbe A Rebbe () or Admor () is the spiritual leader in the Hasidic movement, and the personalities of its dynasties.Heilman, Samuel"The Rebbe and the Resurgence of Orthodox Judaism."''Religi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malka Rokeach
Malka Rokeach () (1780-1850 CE) was the first ''rebbetzin'' of the Hasidic dynasty of Belz. She was the wife of Rabbi Sholom Rokeach, the first ''rebbe'' of Belz, and the mother of the second ''rebbe'' of the dynasty, Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach. She was directly involved in the ongoings in her husband's court. Life She was born in 1780 to Rabbi Yissachar Dov Ramraz of Sokal, Galicia and Rebbetzin Chana Rachel (née Tisminitzer), a great-granddaughter of Rabbi Zechariah Mendel ben Aryeh Leib of Cracow, author of '' Ba'er Hetev'' on ''Yoreh De'ah'' and ''Choshen Mishpat''. Malka married her first-cousin, Rabbi Sholom Rokeach, son of Rabbi Elazar Rokeach and Rebbetzin Rivka Henna Ramraz, her father's sister. They had five sons and two daughters. Rabbi Sholom considered Malka as his partner in his Torah study and in all of his spiritual endeavors. He said that when he took it upon himself to remain awake one thousand nights to study Torah, Malka stood at his side to ensure that his ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elazar Rokeach Of Amsterdam
Rabbi Elazar Rokeach () also known as Eleazar ben Samuel (c. 1685—1742), was the author of ''Maaseh Rokeach'', and Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam. He was born at Kraków about 1685; died at Safed, Israel, 1742. According to family legends, he was a direct paternal descendant of Eleazar of Worms. On the completion of his studies he became '' dayyan'' of Kraków. In 1708 he accepted the rabbinate of Rakow, Poland. From there he went to Brody, where he became rabbi (1714). In 1735 he went to Amsterdam in response to a call from the Ashkenazic congregation there. A medal was designed in his honor, one side of which exhibited his head in relief, surrounded by the words: "Eleazar ben Samuel, Rabbi of Brody" (in Hebrew), the other side containing chosen verses from the Psalms. Elazar was one of those who placed Moses Ḥayyim Luzzatto under excommunication. Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography: Friedberg, ''Gesch. der Familie Schor'', p. 16; idem, ''Luḥot Zikkaron'', p. 52; Michael, Heimann J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
