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RABBI TZVI HIRSCH ROSENBAUM, (ADMUR KRETCHNEV-SIGHET-JERUSALEM), zt"l (1919 - 2016) was born in his grandfather's home in the town of Sighet, located in Romania's Marmuresh Region, to HaRav Nisan Chaim, the eldest son of the Admor, HaRav Eliezer Zeev of [...]

DAYAN GERSHON LOPIAN, zt"l (1938-2014) learned in Gateshead Yeshiva under his father, Rabbi Leib Lopian zt"l, until the age of 21. He then travelled to Kfar Chasidim to learn under his grandfather Rabbi Elya Lopian zt"l , with whom [...]

RABBI YOSEF LEIBERMAN, zt"l (1927 - 2023) was born in Pershburg to Rabbi Tuvia Lieberman, who was a descendant of Chatam Sofer, and to Rochel, daughter of Rabbi Yekutiel Friediger, a descendant of Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Tversky of Cherkas. [...]

RABBI BEN-ZION RABINOWICZ OF BIALA, Shilta is the youngest son of Rabbi Yechiel Yehoshua of Biala. During the Nazi invasion of Poland, Rebbe Ben-zion and his sister escaped with many other children across Europe eastwards into Russia, down into [...]

RAV ELCHONON (CHUNA) HALPERN zt"l (1922-2015),  was the Rav of Bais Medrash Bais Shmuel, Av Beis Din in Golders Green, London, and Nasi of Hisachdus Kehillas HaChareidim. Rav Halpern was born on the first night of Chanukahin the town [...]

HARAV MORDECHAI ZUKERMAN, zt"l (1912- 2004) was born in Smorgon in and raised in a home of Torah and chessed. In his youth he studied at Yeshivas Lida under HaRav Yaakov Neiman before traveling to Radin to learn at [...]

RABBI YISRAEL FRIEDMAN (1923 – 2017) was known as the Pashkana Rebbe (after the city of Pașcani where his grandfather served as Rebbe). He was descended from the most aristocratic Hassidic dynasty of all — Ruzhyn-Sadigur. He was the [...]

RABBI SIMCHA RUBIN, zt"l (1910-2003), Sassover Rebbe, was born in Sassov, Poland,and died in Golders Green, North London, aged 92. He could trace his family back to the Baal Shem Tov and Rabbi Naftali Tzvi of Ropshitz, and [...]

HARAV EPHRAIM GREENBLATT, zt"l, (1932 - 2014) author of Rivevos Ephraim and a talmid muvhak of HaRav Moshe Feinstein, zt"l, was born in 1932 in Yerushalayim. His father, HaRav Avraham Baruch Greenblatt, zt"l, was known to the Gedolim of [...]