Mordechai Dovid Unger | |
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Rebbe of Bobov - 45 | |
Term | 23 March 2005 – present |
Full name | Mordechai Duvid Unger |
Born | 1954 New York |
Father | Yaakov Yitzchok Unger |
Wife | Rivka Halberstam |
Mordechai Duvid Unger (מרדכי דוד אונגער) was born in 1954 to Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Unger of Dombrov. He is the younger son-in-law of the late Grand Rabbi Naftali Zvi Halberstam, the fourth of Bobover Rebbe, and the second to oldest grandson of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam, the third Bobover Rebbe.
Following the death of his father-in-law, Grand Rabbi Naftali Zvi Halberstam, in 2005, a part of the Bobov Chasidim favored him as their Rebbe. He is currently the first Bobover-45 Rebbe (45-אדמו"ר מבאבוב), (meaning: the Bobov 45th'er Rebbe - named after a street name in the "Borough Park" neighbourhood in Brooklyn, New York, where the center of his community is renting their headquarters location), and the other son-in law, Rabbi Yehoshua Rubin, is Bobover-45 Rav (אבד"ק באבוב-45