Vizhnitz is the name of a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager. Vizhnitz (ויז׳ניץ or וויזשניץ) is the Yiddish name of Vyzhnytsia, a town...
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descendants, founded the many Kosov Hasidic sects. The Vizhnitz dynasty is the best known branch of the original Kosover dynasty. Other branches include Seret...
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(1875-1962) was a son in law of Rabbi Mendel. Rabbi Boruch Hager of the Vizhnitz Hasidic dynasty served as the official town rabbi in Seret during the years 1936–1941...
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Skverer Hasidim are generally similar to those of other Hasidic groups, especially that of Vizhnitz, Belz, and Klausenburg. Weekday attire for men consists...
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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...
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married into many distinguished rabbinical families and Hasidic dynasties such as Vizhnitz, Seret Vizhnitz, Dushinsky, Ungvar, Minchas Yitzchok, Strikov, Bobov...
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Belz (Yiddish: בעלזא) is a Hasidic dynasty founded in the town of Belz in Western Ukraine, near the Polish border, historically the Crown of the Kingdom...
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Chaim Meir Hager similarly restored Vizhnitz. Moses Isaac Gewirtzman founded the new Pshevorsk (Hasidic dynasty) in Antwerp. The most explosive growth...
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A Hasidic dynasty or Chassidic dynasty is a dynasty led by Hasidic Jewish spiritual leaders known as rebbes, and usually has some or all of the following...
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Pshevorsk is a small Hasidic movement based in Antwerp, Belgium, led by the Leiser rabbinical dynasty, originating in the Polish town of Przeworsk. The...
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Shraga Feivish Hager (category Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty))
2024), also known as the Kosover Rebbe, was the rebbe of the Kosov Hasidic dynasty, a dayan ("rabbinic judge"), and noted orator. He was known as a creative...
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Kaser, New York (category Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty))
491. Kaser is a village with a population consisting almost entirely of Hasidic Jews of the Viznitz denomination. A total of 4% of Kaser's population claims...
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Ropshitz (Yiddish: ראָפשיץ, Hebrew: רופשיץ) is the name of a Hasidic dynasty, or rabbinical family and group, who are descendants of Rabbi Naftali Zvi...
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Abby Stein (category Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty) members)
the first openly transgender woman raised in a Hasidic community, and is a direct descendant of Hasidic Judaism's founder, the Baal Shem Tov. In 2015,...
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Boyan (Hasidic dynasty) Eliezer Hager, Rebbe of Seret-Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty) Yisroel_Hager_(the_second), Rebbe of Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty) Menachem...
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Simon Dushinsky (category Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty) members)
Rabinowitz. Dushinsky was born and raised in Israel and belongs to the Vizhnitz Hasidic Jewish community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Dushinsky co-founded The...
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Isaac Hager (category Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty) members)
Management. Isaac "Itzy" Hager was born in the 1970s and belongs to the Vizhnitz Hasidic Jewish community based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The grandson of Rabbi...
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Dov Hikind (category Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty) members)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, his father being a devout follower of the Vizhnitz Hasidic dynasty.[citation needed] His parents were both Holocaust survivors, with...
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Hasidic philosophy or Hasidism (Hebrew: חסידות), alternatively transliterated as Hasidut or Chassidus, consists of the teachings of the Hasidic movement...
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Menachem Mendel Hager (category Rebbes of Vizhnitz)
1957) is one of the two Grand Rabbis of the Viznitz (Admor Mviznitz) Hasidic dynasty in Bnei Brak and a current member of Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council...
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Hoshea Friedman (category Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty) members)
passing), and his mother, Tziporah, is the daughter of the Imrei Chaim of Vizhnitz. He is married and has five children. Friedman served in the Golani Brigade...
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Mezhbizh (redirect from Medzhibozh (Hasidic dynasty))
Hasidic dynasty that bears its name and as a symbolic name for the roots of Hasidism. The Mezhbizh dynasty served as the earliest "trunk" of Hasidic Judaism...
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Mordechai Hager (category Rebbes of Vizhnitz)
rabbinic leader) of the Hasidic sect of Vizhnitz for 46 years. He was born in Grossverdein to Rabbi Chaim Meir Hager, later the Vizhnitz rebbe, and Margalia...
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Vyzhnytsia (category Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty))
Russian: Вижница, romanized: Vizhnitsa; Yiddish: וויזשניץ, romanized: Vizhnitz) is a small city located in the historical region of Bukovina, on the Cheremosh...
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Yisrael Friedman of Ruzhin (category Hasidic rabbis in Europe)
Husiatyn, Sadigura, and Shtefanesht. The founders of the Vizhnitz, Skver, and Vasloi Hasidic dynasties were related to the Ruzhiner Rebbe through his daughters...
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Munkácser hasidic community there co-existed smaller yet vibrant Hasidic groups who were followers of the rebbes Belz, of Spinka, Zidichov, and Vizhnitz. By...
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Haredim and Zionism (redirect from Hasidic anti-Zionism)
While ideologically opposed to Zionism, the moderate Hasidic groups of Ger, Breslov, Vizhnitz, Belz, and Klausenberg do vote in the Israeli elections...
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Hasidic dynasties (e.g. Chernobyl, Karlin-Stolin), producing many dynasties, including some of the dynasties still active today (e.g. Skver, Vizhnitz)...
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Joseph Meir Weiss (category Spinka (Hasidic dynasty))
יוסף מאיר ווייס), was a Hungarian rabbi and founder of the Spinka Hasidic dynasty. He is often known as the "Imrei Yosef" after his major work. The family...
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History of the Jews in Antwerp (category Hasidic Judaism in Europe)
the Isabellalei) Vizhnitz (Vizhnitz Bnei Brak, Vizhnitz New York) The Pshevorsk movement is the only internationally recognized Hasidic movement whose rebbe...
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