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Ropshitz ( yi, , he, ) is the name of a Hasidic dynasty, or rabbinical family and group, who are descendants of Rabbi Naftali Zvi of Ropshitz (1760–1827). Ropshitz is the name of a town in southern Poland, known in Polish as Ropczyce.

Several contemporary ''rebbes'' are styled "Ropshitzer ''Rebbe''", in reference to the Ropshitz dynasty: Rebbe Chaim Rubin, Ropshitzer ''Rebbe'' of Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York (see Ropshitz branch below), and others.

Lineage

Rebbe Menachem Mendel of Linsk

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Rubin of Linsk (Lesko) ( – 1803 3 Tishri 5564 is often considered the first ''rebbe'' of the Ropshitz dynasty. His father, Rabbi Yaakov, was the rabbi of Linsk. He married Beila, daughter of Rabbi Yizchak Halevi Horowitz (called Reb Itzikl Hamburger), the rabbi of (the triple Jewish community of Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbek). He was a disciple of the Hasidic ''rebbes'' Yechiel Michel, the ''maggid'' of Zlotshov, and Elimelech of Lizhensk. He was the rabbi of Leshnov ( Leshniv); then, , he became the rabbi of Horodenka. In [], after the death of his father, he inherited the latter's position as the rabbi of Linsk. His descendants continued the rabbinical dynasty of Linsk until the Holocaust. A collection of his writings was published by his descendant Yehoshua Rubin of Baligród as ''Liḳuṭe Maharam'' (), appended to his son, Rebbe Naftali of Ropshitz' ''Ayalah sheluḥah'' ()‎.

Rebbe Naftali Tzvi of Ropshitz

Rebbe Naftali Tzvi Horowitz of Ropshitz (1760–1827), son of Rabbi Mendl of Linsk. Subsequently ''rebbe'' and rabbi of Ropshitz, he succeeded his father as the rabbi of Linsk, and was the rabbi of Strzyżów (Strizhov) as well. His children were Rebbe Avraham Chaim of Linsk, Rebbe Yaakov of Melitz, Rebbe Eliezer of Dzhikov, and Ratza, wife of Rebbe Asher Yeshaya Rubin of Ropshitz.

Melitz branch

* Rebbe Yaakov Horowitz of Melitz ( – 1836), son of Rebbe Naftali Tzvi. His father appointed him as the rabbi of Kolbasov (Kolbuszowa). In about 1810, he was chosen by the Jews of Melitz (Mielec) to be the town's rabbi and was smuggled out of Kolbasov (as he was beloved by the townsfolk of Kolbasov, and they did not allow him to leave). In Melitz he began to officiate as a ''rebbe''. His teachings were published from manuscript in 754as ''Zeraʻ Yaʻaḳov'' (). Selected portions of this manuscript had been published previously.

Linsk branch

* Rebbe Avraham Chaim Horowitz of Linsk ( or  – 1831), son of Rebbe Naftali Tzvi. He briefly succeeded his father as rabbi of Linsk, but died soon after.
** Rebbe Menachem Mendel Horowitz of Linsk (died 1868), son of Rebbe Avraham Chaim
*** Rebbe Avraham Chaim Horowitz (the second) of Linsk ( or  – 1904), son of Rebbe Menachem Mendel.
*** Rabbi Yisrael Horowitz of Veislitz (Wiślica), son of Rebbe Menachem Mendel. Rabbi of Veislitz.

Dzhikov branch

* Rebbe Eliezer Horowitz of Dzhikov (died October 19, 1860 Cheshvan 5621, son of Rebbe Naftali Tzvi
** Rebbe Meir Horowitz of Dzhikov (died June 19, 1877 Tammuz 5637, son of Rebbe Eliezer. Rabbi of Tarnobrzeg (Dzhikov) concurrently with his father's being ''rebbe'' there. He succeeded his father as ''rebbe'' also. He died in Karlsbad. His teachings were published in ''Imre No'am'' () (Jarosław, 1907).
*** Rebbe Naftali Chaim Horowitz of Dzhikov (died 1894), son of Rebbe Meir and son-in-law of Rebbe Moshe Unger of the Dombrov dynasty, son-in-law of Rebbe Chaim Halberstam of Sanz. He settled in Safed and later in Jerusalem, and after his father's death refused to return to Poland to lead his father's followers. He was renowned for his mysterious behavior. Author of ''Minḥah ḥadashah'' () (Jerusalem, 1880).
**** Rebbe Betzalel Horowitz of Pilzno ( – ), son of Rebbe Naftali Chaim. He married Gitele, the eldest daughter of his great-uncle, Rebbe Reuven Horowitz of Dembitz, and was one of his successors as the ''rebbe'' of Dembitz, and a contender for the rabbinate of Dembitz. He was the rabbi of Pilzno. He died young.
***** Rebbe Menashe Horowitz of Pilzno, son of Rebbe Betzalel. He succeeded his father as the rabbi of Pilzno, and died in the Holocaust.
**** Rebbe Eliezer Nisan Horowitz of Safed (died 1916), son of Rebbe Naftali Chaim. He married Miriam, daughter of Rabbi Yaakov Kahane, the rabbi of Chutzi-Emer (, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine). After his premature death, she married Rebbe Yisrael Hager of the Vizhnitz dynasty in his second marriage, who raised her three daughters.
***** Rebbe Mordechai Yehuda Adler, a descendant of the Lelov dynasty and son-in-law of Rebbe Eliezer Nisan Horowitz. After his premature death, his wife, Tzirel, daughter of Rebbe Eliezer, married her step-brother Rebbe Baruch Hager, the ''Rebbe'' of Seret of the Vizhnitz dynasty (son of Rebbe Yisrael), who raised her children from her first marriage.
****** Rebbe Naftali Chaim Adler (1909 or 1914 – 1995), Dzhikover ''Rebbe'' of Netanya, son of Rebbe Mordechai Yehuda and son-in-law of Rebbe Chaim Meir Hager of Vizhnitz
******* Rabbi Mordechai ("Motel") Adler (1952–1989), son of Rebbe Naftali Chaim. He married the granddaughter of the Temeshvarer–Biksader ''Rebbe''. He was the rabbi and ''rosh hakolel'' of the Mincha Chadasha synagogue in Borough Park, Brooklyn. He died in a car accident when he was 38 years old.
******* Rebbe Yisrael Eliezer Adler, Dzhikover ''Rebbe'' of Rehovot, son of Rebbe Naftali Chaim and son-in-law of his uncle, Rabbi Moshe Ernster (whose wife was Rebbe Chaim Meir Hager's daughter). In 2012, shortly after the death of his uncle, Rebbe Moshe Yehoshua Hager, he was proclaimed by Rebbe Moshe Yehoshua's successors as "Dzhikover Rebbe".
**** Rebbe Eliyahu Horowitz of Zholin (Żołynia), son of Rebbe Naftali Chaim
***** Rabbi Menashe Horowitz of Zholin (died 1972), son of Rebbe Eliyahu. He married Matel, daughter of Rebbe Yehuda Unger of Sokolov of the Dombrov dynasty. He was the rabbi of Zholin after his father. His wife and their children died in the Holocaust. He survived and was the rabbi of the Rayim Ahuvim synagogue of Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York.
*** Rebbe Yehoshua Horowitz of Dzhikov (1848–1912), son of Rebbe Meir
**** Rebbe Alter Yechezkel Eliyahu Horowitz of Dzhikov, son of Rebbe Yehoshua and son-in-law of his uncle, Rebbe Yisroel Hager of Vizhnitz, whose wife was Rebbe Meir Horowitz's daughter
***** Rebbe Chaim Menachem David Horowitz of Dzhikov (died 1944), son of Rebbe Alter. Last rabbi of Tarnobrzeg.
***** Rebbe Meir Horowitz, son of Rebbe Alter
****** Rebbe Yehoshua Horowitz (died 2013), Dzhikover Rebbe of New York, son of Rebbe Meir
***** Rebbe Yehuda Horowitz of Dzhikov, Jerusalem and London, son of Rebbe Alter
*** Rebbe Tovia Horowitz of Madin (died ), son of Rebbe Meir. He married the daughter of Rebbe David Spira of Dinov, of the Dinov dynasty. He was the rabbi of Madin ( Majdan Królewski).
**** Rebbe Bentzion Horowitz of Madin ( – ), son of Rebbe Tovia. Orphaned at a young age, he was raised by his uncle, Rebbe Yehoshua of Dzhikov. He married Golda Leah, daughter of Rebbe Pinchas Rabinowitz of Kintzk (Końskie) of the Pshischa dynasty. He succeeded his father as the rabbi of Madin, perhaps as early as 1899. During World War I, he lived in Vienna with his son, Rebbe Tovia of Sunik. He died during the Holocaust in a hospital in Rzeszów in 700
***** Rebbe Tovia Horowitz of Sunik (Sanok) ( – ), son of Rebbe Bentzion. He married the daughter of his cousin, Rebbe Yehoshua Spira of Ribotitsh of the Dinov dynasty, whose grandfather was Rebbe David of Dinov. He was an active member of the Agudath Israel movement, and one of the founders of the Bais Yaakov movement of Orthodox girls' education, started by Sarah Schenirer.
*** Rebbe Yechiel Horowitz of Pokshivnitz (Koprzywnica), son of Rebbe Meir and son-in-law of Rebbe David Halberstam of Kshanov (Chrzanów) of the Sanz dynasty. He was the rabbi of Pokshivnitz, directly across the Vistula (then the Galician–Polish border) from Dzhikov. He was later expelled as an Austria-Hungarian national by the government of Congress Poland and he settled in Tarnów.
*** Rebbe Aharon Horowitz of Beitsh (Biecz), son of Rebbe Meir and son-in-law of Rebbe Chaim Halberstam of Sanz
**** Rebbe Alter Eliezer Horowitz of Beitsh, son of Rebbe Aharon and son-in-law of Rebbe Moshe Leib Spira of Strizhov of the Dinov dynasty.
***** Rebbe Chaim Shlomo Horowitz, Strizhover ''Rebbe'' of New York. Before the Holocaust, he was the rabbi of Zalizha (, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine).
*** Rebbe Asher Horowitz of Rimanov ( Rymanów) ( – 1934), son of Rebbe Meir. He was orphaned as a child and was raised by his brother Rebbe Yehoshua of Dzhikov. In his first marriage, he married Malka, daughter of Rebbe Yosef Friedman, ''rebbe'' of Rimanov of the Rimanov dynasty, and was a rabbi there. Later he lived in Kraków.
**** Rebbe Tzvi Chaim Horowitz of Rimanov (died 1939), son of Rebbe Asher. He married Sarah, daughter of his uncle, Rebbe Yisrael Hager of Vizhnitz. He became the rabbi of Rimanov after World War I, when his father settled in Kraków, and succeeded the latter and his maternal grandfather as the ''rebbe'' of Rimanov in 1935. His health was frail. He fell ill in 1937, and died two years later. In 1966, he was reinterred in the '' ohel'' of his father-in-law in Bnei Brak.
***** Rebbe (Alter) Moshe Eliezer Horowitz of Rimanov (died ), son of Rebbe Tzvi Chaim and the last Rebbe of Rimanov. He married Chaya Hinda, daughter of his relative Rebbe Naftali Horowitz of Melitz. He succeeded his father first as the rabbi of Rimanov in 1935 and later as ''rebbe'' after his father's death in 1939. After escaping the Holocaust for some time in Grosswardein (Oradea), he and his family were deported to Auschwitz and killed in .
***** Rebbe Chaim Yaakov Frankel, great-grandson of Rebbe Tzvi Chaim, one of several contemporary Rimanover ''rebbes''. His wife is the daughter of the Komarner ''Rebbe'' of Jerusalem.
** Rabbi Yisrael Horowitz of Baranov ( – 1870), son of Rebbe Eliezer. In his first marriage he married Yocheved, daughter of Rebbe David Hager of Zablotov (Zabolotiv) of the Kosov dynasty. Later he married his cousin Beila, daughter of his uncle Rebbe Avraham Chaim Horowitz, the ''rebbe'' of Linsk. He was the first rabbi of Baranov (Baranów Sandomierski), and refused to officiate as a ''rebbe''.
***Rebbe Avraham Simcha Horowitz of Baranov (1845–1916), son of Rebbe Yisrael. In 1909, after about forty years of being the rabbi — as his father's successor — and ''rebbe'' of Baranov, he left Poland and settled in Jerusalem, where he had a synagogue.
** Rebbe Reuven Horowitz of Dembitz, son of Rebbe Eliezer. Rabbi and ''rebbe'' of Dębica (Dembitz). He had no children with his first wife, daughter of his cousin, Rebbe Menashe Rubin of Ropshitz (see Ropshitz branch below). His second wife was the daughter of a son of Rabbi Isser, the rabbi of Rozvadov ( Rozwadów). After her death, he married her wealthy uncle's adoptive daughter, with whom he had his other children.
*** Rebbe Alter Yeshaya Horowitz of Dembitz ( – 1895), son of Rebbe Reuven (his only son from his second marriage). He succeeded his father as the rabbi and ''rebbe'' of Dembitz. He had no children.
*** Rebbe Shmuel Horowitz of Dembitz ( – 1921), son of Rebbe Reuven (from his third marriage). He married the daughter of Rabbi Yechiel Wagschal, the rabbi of Frysztak, a descendant of Rebbe Elimelech of Lizhensk. He succeeded his brother Rebbe Alter's positions in Dembitz.
** Rebbe Moshe Horowitz of Rozvadov (died 1894), son of Rebbe Eliezer and son-in-law of Rebbe Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum
*** Rebbe Tzvi Hersh Horowitz of Rozvadov, son of Rebbe Moshe
*** Rebbe Avraham Chaim Horowitz of Plontsh, son of Rebbe Moshe
*** Rebbe Yitzchak Horowitz (''R. 'Itzikel' Stitshiner'') of Szczucin (''Stitshin'' in Yiddish) and Tarnów, son of Rebbe Moshe
**** Rebbe Yehuda Horowitz (''Reb 'Yidele' Stitshiner'') of Stitshin and later the Stitshiner Rav in Brooklyn (died 1981), son of Rebbe Yitzchak and son-in-law of Rebbe Yehoshua Spira of Rybotycze of the Dinov dynasty.
*****Reb Mordechai Menashe Zilber (Reb Mottel) Student Of Rebbe Yehuda, Current Rebbe Of Toldos Yehuda Stitchin
*****Rebbe Eliezer Yehoshua Yudkovsky, grandson of Rebbe Yehuda, current Stitshiner ''Rov''

Ropshitz branch

* Rebbe Asher Yeshaya Rubin of Ropshitz ( – 1845), son-in-law of Rebbe Naftali Tzvi, known as ''Reb Osher'l''. He succeeded his father-in-law as rabbi and ''rebbe'' of Ropshitz. His teachings were published in ''Or yeshaʻ'' () (Lviv, 1876).
** Rebbe Menashe Rubin of Ropshitz (died 1861), son of Rebbe Asher Yeshaya. His teachings were published in ''Leḥem Shemena'' () (Lviv, 1876).
*** Rebbe Yitzchak Mariles of Ropshitz, son-in-law of Rebbe Menashe
**** Rebbe Menachem Mendel Mariles of Ropshitz and Dibetzk, son of Rebbe Yitzchak
***** Rebbe Menashe Mariles of Ropshitz and Dibetzk, son of Rebbe Mendel
** Rebbe Aharon Rubin of Rymanów (died 1857), son of Rebbe Asher Yeshaya
*** Rebbe Yaakov Rubin of Baranów (died 1905), son of Rebbe Aharon. He was a ''rebbe'' in Baranów, later in Tarnów. He had no children. His stepson, Rabbi Moshe Isser Glantz (son of his wife, Malka) published his writings in ''Toldot Yaʻaḳov'' () (Mukachevo, 1908).
*** Rebbe Nachum Rubin of Narol (died 1876), son of Rebbe Aharon and son-in-law of Rebbe Avraham Reinman, Rabbi of Narol of the Narol dynasty.
*** Rebbe Shmuel Rubin of Kortshin, son of Rebbe Aharon. He married Yocheved, daughter of Rebbe Elazar Weissblum, son of Rebbe Naftali Weissblum of the Lizhensk dynasty. He succeeded (the unrelated) Rabbi Shmuel Aharon Rubin as the rabbi of Korczyna.
**** Rabbi Naftali Rubin of Vishnitza ( – 1938), son of Rebbe Shmuel. He married Chana Malka, daughter of Rebbe Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam of Shineva of the Sanz dynasty. He was the rabbi of Kalvaria ( Kalwaria Zebrzydowska), then '' dayan'' of Vishnitza (Nowy Wiśnicz), and later the rabbi of the same. He was not a ''rebbe''.
***** Rabbi Chaim Baruch Rubin of Vishnitza ( – 1943), son of Rabbi Naftali. He married the daughter of his cousin, Rabbi Tzvi Yosef Rubin the rabbi of Yaslo. He succeeded his father's position in Vishnitza. He died in the Holocaust.
***** Rebbe Yona Rubin, the Vishnitzer ''Rebbe'' of Nisk (Nisko), son of Rabbi Naftali. He married his cousin, Chana Beila, daughter of his uncle Rabbi Asher Rubin, the rabbi of Kortshin.
**** Rabbi Asher (Reuven) Rubin of Kortshin, son of Rabbi Shmuel. He was the rabbi of Kortshin.
** Rebbe Elimelech Rubin of Sokoliv (died ), son of Rebbe Asher Yeshaya
*** Rebbe Yitzchak
Hagaon Hakadosh Moshe Yosef Mochkin Shlit"a Great Grandson of Reb Moshe Yosef Rubin ztzt'l Ropshitzer Rebbe of Crown Heights Brooklyn. A great tzaddik and miracle worker the current Ropshitzer Rebbe has thousands flocking to him, to his pearls of wisdom from his holy mouth it is said that g-d himself speaks through his mouth Rubin of Brody and Radekhiv, son of Rebbe Elimelech. His wife, Eidel, was the daughter of Rebbe Sholom Rokeach of Belz, and was famous as a ''rebbe'' in her own right.
**** Rebbe Shmuel Shmelke Rubin of Seret (died 1901), son of Rebbe Yitzchak (see Seret (Hasidic dynasty))
**** Rebbe Naftali Tzvi Rubin of Radichov (Radekhiv), son of Rebbe Yitzchak. His wife, Tamar, was the daughter of Rebbe Aryeh Leibush Neuhaus of Tomaszów Lubelski of the Chelm dynasty.
***** Rebbe Asher Yeshaya Rubin of Zholkiv (Zhovkva) (died 1916), son of Rebbe Naftali Tzvi. His wife was Malka Freida, daughter of Rabbi Chaim Eliyahu Lieberman, the rabbi of Zholkiv. He was a ''rebbe'' in Zholkiv, and later the Zholkiver ''Rebbe'' in Kshanov (Chrzanów).
**** Rebbe Elimelech Rubin (known by his epithet , "''Sage Nahor''" - "the Blind") of Yavrov (died 1904), son of Rebbe Yitzchak. He was a follower of the ''rebbes'' of Belz.
*** Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Heshil Rubin of Yaslo (Jasło) (died 1908), son of Rebbe Elimelech. He was the rabbi of Sokołów Małopolski. Later, he was appointed as the first rabbi of Jasło. He later settled in Safed where he was the rabbi of the Galician Jewish community. He died in Safed.
**** Rebbe Tzvi (Hersh) Yosef Rubin of Yaslo ( – ), son of Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Heshil. He succeeded his father as the rabbi of Yaslo after the latter settled in Israel.
*** Rebbe Alter (Elimelech) Rubin of Sokołów (1847 – after 1928), son of Rebbe Elimelech. He succeeded his father and his brother as the rabbi of Sokołów Małopolski.
** Rebbe Menachem Mendel Rubin of Glogiv ( – 1873), son of Rebbe Asher Yeshaya. He married Chava Ester, daughter of Rebbe Meir Rothenberg of Apt ("the ''Or la-Shamayim''"). In his second marriage, he married his first wife's niece (her brother's daughter).Note to manuscript letter of Rebbe Elazar Spira of Lantzhut to Rebbe Mendel of Glogiv, in ''Or yeshaʻ'' (1973).
*** Rebbe Meir Rubin of Glogiv (1829–1897), son of Rebbe Mendel. His wife was Mirel Gola, daughter of Rebbe Yosef Unger of Dombrov.
**** Rebbe Chaim Yechiel Rubin of Dombrov (1854 – ), son of Rebbe Meir. His wife was Devora, daughter of Rebbe Sender Lipa Eichenstein of Zidichov. He was the rabbi of Limna. Later, he was succeeded his maternal grandfather as the ''rebbe'' of Dombrov. He died in Berlin.
*****Grand Rabbi Yissachar Berish Rubin of Dombrova. Rebbe in Berlin, and later in Washington Heights, New York.
******Grand Rabbi Esriel Rubin of Dombrova, son in law of Rebbe Yisachar Ber Shapiro of Kechneye, Nadvorna Dynasty
*******Grand Rabbi Naftoli Tzvi Rubin of Dombrova-Monsey, son of Rabbi Esriel of Dombrova **** Rebbe Shalom Rubin of Reisha-Ruskaviesh (, Rzeszów) (1856 –), son of Rebbe Meir. His wife was Chana Mindel, daughter of Rebbe Simcha Spira, son of Rebbe Elazar Spira of Lantzhut of the Dinov dynasty.
**** Rebbe Yitzchak Tovia Rubin of Sanz (1858–1927), son of Rebbe Meir. His wife, Nechama was the daughter of Rebbe Chaim Halberstam of Sanz. He was a ''rebbe'' in Nowy Sącz (Sanz) after his father-in-law's death.
***** Rebbe Arye Leibish Rubin of Tomaszów Lubelski and Cieszanów (died 1942), son of Rebbe Yitzchak Tovia and son-in-law of his cousin, Rebbe Simcha Yissachar Ber Halberstam of Cieszanów, son of Rebbe Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam of Sieniawa.
****** Rebbe Shalom Yechezkel Shraga Rubin (died 1986), Tsheshanover ''Rebbe'' in New York, son of Rebbe Arye Leibish.
****** Rebbe Simcha Yissachar Ber Rubin, Tsheshanover ''Rebbe'' in New York, son of Rebbe Arye Leibish and son-in-law of Rebbe Yehoshua Eichenstein of Grosswardein of the Zidichov dynasty.
**** Rebbe Baruch Rubin of Brezdovitz (, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine) and Gherla (then called Szamosújvár) (1864–1935), son of Rebbe Meir. He married Sara Shlomzti, daughter of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Eichenstein of Zidichov. (She survived him and settled in Jerusalem, where she was a ''rebbe''.) He was the rabbi of the community of his father-in-law's followers in Berezdivtsi, where he adopted the customs and style of prayer ('' nusach'') of the Zidichov dynasty. Later he was a ''rebbe'' in Kolomyia. During World War I, he fled from Kolomyia to Dej. After a brief stay in Dej, he settled in nearby Gherla. His writings were published as ''She'erit Barukh'' () (Jerusalem, 1973).
His son-in-law Rebbe Moshe Frisherman of the Tomashov dynasty (husband of his daughter Mindel) succeeded him as the ''rebbe'' of Gherla until the Holocaust, in which his first wife and their children died. (Later he was known simple as the ''rebbe'' of Tomashov.)
Another son-in-law of Rebbe Baruch, Rebbe Tzvi Hersh Kahane, was the ancestor of the Kahane branch of the Spinka dynasty.
***** Rebbe Yaakov Yisrael veYeshurun Rubin of Sulitz and Sasregen (30 Kislev 5645 ecember 18, 1884 Zhydachiv, – 15 Sivan 5704 une 6, 1944, son of Rebbe Baruch. His first wife, Rechil, was the daughter of Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Moshe Moskowitz, ''rebbe'' of Suliţa (Sulitz), through whose influence he was appointed as the rabbi of Sulitz in approximately 1909. After her death, he married Alte Nechama Malka, daughter of Rabbi Chaim Dachner of Seret, a descendant of the Kosov and Belz Hasidic dynasties (see Seret (Hasidic dynasty)). They both died in the Holocaust.
****** Rebbe Menachem Mendel Rubin ( – 2007), Muzhayer Rebbe, son of Rebbe Yaakov Yisrael veYeshurun and son-in-law of Rebbe Chaim Meir Yechiel Horowitz of Raniżów (see Melitz branch above). He succeeded his father-in-law as the ''rebbe'' of Selish (Vynohradiv) and officiated as the rabbi of Muzhay (, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine). Rabbi of the Khal Yeshurun Ropshitz congregation of Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York.
******* Rebbe Chaim (Meir Yechiel Moshe) Rubin, Ropshitzer Rebbe of Borough Park, Brooklyn, son of Rebbe Menachem Mendel and son-in-law of his uncle, Rebbe Shmuel Shmelka Rubin, the Sulitzer Rebbe. He is a disciple of his maternal great-uncle, Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum, the Satmarer ''Rebbe''. His great-uncle appointed him as the ''Rosh ha-Kolel'' (dean of a kollel) of his Kolel in Kiryas Joel, New York, in around 1977. Later, at the ''Rebbe'' of Satmar's suggestion, he settled in the "Ropshitz" neighborhood of Kiryas Joel and founded a synagogue called "Kedushas Yom Tov". Later he settled in Borough Park, Brooklyn, where his synagogue, Cong. Zera Kodesh Kedushas Yom Tov D'Ropshitz, is located, and is now known as the Ropshitzer ''Rebbe'' Also cousin with Spinka Rebbe of Jerusalem .
****** Rebbe Shmuel Shmelka Rubin (1925–201

, Sulitzer Rebbe, son of Rebbe Yaakov Yisrael veYeshurun and son-in-law of Rebbe Yissachar Ber Rosenbaum of Storozhynets, Stroznitz. Rabbi of the Sulitz congregation of Far Rockaway, Queens, New York.
****** Rebbe Mordechai David Rubin, Sasregener Rebbe, son of Rebbe Yaakov Yisrael veYeshurun and son-in-law of Rebbe Yehoshua Eichenstein of Grosswardein of the Zidichov dynasty. Rabbi of K'hal Sasregen congregation in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
******* Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael veYeshurun Rubin, Brizdovitzer ''Rov'' of Borough Park, Brooklyn—rabbi of the Brizdovitz congregation.
***** Rebbe Meir Yosef Rubin of Kerestir (Bodrogkeresztúr) (died 1944), son of Rebbe Baruch. He married Rivka Tzirel, daughter of Rebbe Avraham Steiner, the Rebbe of Kerestir. He succeeded his father-in-law's position in Kerestir. He died in the Holocaust.
****** Rebbe Yissachar Berish Rubin, Kerestirer ''Rebbe'' of New York, son of Rebbe Meir Yosef. He was for a ''rebbe'' for a while after the Holocaust in the town of Kerestir; later he emigrated to the United States.
*** Rebbe Yaakov Yosef Rubin of Glogov ( – 1873), son of Rebbe Mendel. His first wife was his cousin, daughter of Rebbe Leibush Neuhaus of Tomaszów Lubelski of the Chelm dynasty, whose wife was his mother's sister. In his second marriage, he married Hesa, daughter of Rebbe Elazar Hopstein of Kozhnitz of the Kozhnitz dynasty. His father appointed him as the rabbi of Glogov in his stead.
**** Rebbe Alter Moshe Chaim Rubin of Raniżów and Glogov ( – ), son of Rebbe Yaakov Yosef. In his first marriage, he married Yehudis, daughter of Rebbe David Spira, Rebbe of Dinov ( Dynow) of the Dinov dynasty. He was the rabbi of Raniżów, later of Glogów in his father's place (some 25 years after the latter's death). His second wife was Pearle (née Freilich), daughter of R' Menachem Yakov Freilich.
**** Rebbe Elazar Rubin ( – 1933), Sasover Rebbe of New York, son of Rebbe Yaakov Yosef (from his second marriage). After his father's premature death, Rebbe Chaim Halberstam of Sanz raised him. In his first marriage, he married the daughter of Rebbe Uri Langner of Rohatyn of the Stretin dynasty. In his second marriage, he married Rechel, daughter of Rebbe Shlomo Mayer, Rebbe of Sasov ( Sasiv, Ukraine) of the Alesk dynasty (his children were from his second marriage). He was first a ''rebbe'' in Glogov. Then, in around 1919, he was asked by the American followers of the Sasov dynasty to settle in the United States to be their Rebbe, to which he acquiesced. He wrote ''Zikhron Elʻazar'' () (Lviv, 1930), with an introduction describing his family and personal history. He died in New York.
His daughter (from his second marriage), Chava Sara (died in childbirth, 1916), was the mother of Rebbe Yaakov Yosef Weisz of the Spinka dynasty, ancestor of the extant Weiss branch of the Spinka dynasty.
***** Rebbe Chanoch Henich Dov Rubin, Sasover ''Rebbe'' of London, England, son of Rebbe Elazar (from his second marriage).
***** Rebbe Yosef David Rubin ( – 1983), Sasover ''Rebbe'' of New York, son of Rebbe Elazar (from his second marriage). His first wife was the daughter of Rebbe Yisrael Horowitz of Melitz. His second wife was the daughter of Rebbe Shalom Reuven Rosenfeld of the Kaminka dynasty, grandson of Rebbe Chaim Halberstam of Sanz.
*** Rebbe Asher Yeshaya Rubin of Stashov (died 1936), son of Rebbe Mendel (from his second marriage). His wife was Sheindel, daughter of Rebbe Avraham Yitzchak Weissblum of Stashov of the Lizhensk dynasty. He settled in Cologne after World War I.
**** Rebbe Avraham Yitzchak Rubin of Chirov, son of Rebbe Asher Yeshaya. He was a ''rebbe'' in Chirov. He died in the Holocaust.
** Rebbe Yechiel Rubin of Kolbasov ( – 1860), son of Rebbe Asher Yeshaya. Rabbi of Kolbuszowa (Kolbasov) from . He was succeeded by his son-in-law, Rebbe Avraham Aharon Teitelbaum of the Siget dynasty.
*** Rebbe Asher Yeshaya Rubin of Kolbasov ( – 1914), son of Rebbe Yechiel. His wife, Chana Shifra, was the daughter of Rebbe Sender Safrin, the eldest son of Rebbe Yitzchak Eisik Yechiel Yehuda Safrin of Komarno, founder of the Komarno dynasty.

Notes

References

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::Alfasi's system divides Ropshitz into two dynasties: Ropshitz proper (p. 268), comprising the Linsk, Melitz, and Dzhikov branches, and Ropshitz II (p. 335), comprising the Ropshitz branch.
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Further reading

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Dzhikov branch references

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Ropshitz branch references

* (in ''Or yeshaʻ'' () by Rebbe Asher Yeshaya of Ropshitz)
* This edition includes:
**''Liḳuṭe Maharmam'' () by his son Rebbe Menachem Mendel of Glogiv (in ''Or yeshaʻ'')
**''Liḳuṭe Maharam'' () by his son Rebbe Meir of Glogiv (in ''Or yeshaʻ'')
**Facsimiles (including annotated transcriptions) of manuscripts by and about members of the Ropshitz dynasty
**''Sheʼerit Barukh'' () by his son Rebbe Baruch of Brezdovitz
**''Gilyone yosher'' (), by his son Rebbe Yaakov Yisrael veYeshurun of Sulitza
**''Zeraʻ ḳodesh matsavtah'' (), a genealogical treatise by his son Rabbi Asher Yeshaya (who died in the Holocaust).

External links

Meditative Tune from Ropshitz"Mazel Tov" Tune from RopshitzDance Tune from RopshitzWaltz from Ropshitz - played by Andy Statman

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