Shmuel Bornsztain (second Sochatchover rebbe)
| Shmuel Bornsztain | |
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| Second Sochatchover Rebbe | |
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| Term | 1910–1926 |
| Full name | Shmuel Bornsztain |
| Main work | Shem Mishmuel |
| Born | October 16, 1855 Kotzk |
| Died | January 10, 1926 (aged 70) Otwock |
| Buried | Sochatchov |
| Predecessor | Avrohom Bornsztain (Bornsztajn) |
| Successor | Dovid Bornsztain (Bornsztajn) |
| Father | Avrohom Bornsztain |
| Mother | Sara Tzina Morgenstern |
| Wife 1 | Yuta Leah Litmanowicz |
| Children 1 |
Dovid Chanoch Henoch |
| Wife 2 | Mirel Shapiro |
Shmuel Bornsztain (16 October 1855 – 10 January 1926), Hebrew calendar (4 Cheshvan 5616 – 24 Teves 5686), also spelled Borenstein or Bernstein, was the second Rebbe of the Sochatchov Hasidic dynasty. He was known as the Shem Mishmuel by the title of his nine-volume work of Torah and Hasidic thought. He was a leading Hasidic thinker in early 20th-century Europe and a Rebbe to thousands of Hasidim in the Polish cities of Sochaczew (Sochatchov) and Łódź.
Shmuel Bornsztain was the only son of Rabbi Avrohom Bornsztain, author of Avnei Nezer and the first Sochatchover Rebbe. He had one younger sister, Esther. Through his father's line, he was a descendent of the Rema and the Shach. His grandfather was Rabbi Ze'ev (Wolf) Nachum Bornsztain, Rav of Biala and a Hasid of the Kotzker Rebbe. His mother, Sara Tzina Morgenstern, was the daughter of the Kotzker Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Morgenstern.
Shmuel was born in the home of his maternal grandfather, the Kotzker Rebbe, in Kotzk during the time that his father was being supported by his father-in-law, as was the custom in those days. He spent his childhood in the towns of Parczew and Krośniewice, where his father held positions as Rav. Rabbi Avrohom Bornsztain was his son's primary Torah teacher throughout his childhood, and a close and long-lasting bond developed between the two. Even later in life, as the father of a large family, Shmuel regarded himself as his father's talmid (student) and learned with him every day. In his writings, Shmuel synthesized the values and insights of Kotzker Hasidut—as taught by his grandfather, the Kotzker Rebbe—and Peshischa Hasidut, synthesizing them into the unique style that became Sochatchover Hasidut.
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