Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam
| Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam | |
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| Klausenburger Rebbe | |
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| Term | 1927 – June 18, 1994 |
| Full name | Yekusiel Yehuda Halberstam |
| Main work | Shefa Chayim; Divrei Yatsiv |
| Born |
January 10, 1905 Rudnik |
| Died | June 18, 1994 (aged 89) Netanya, Israel |
| Buried | Netanya, Israel |
| Dynasty | Klausenburg |
| Successor | Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Halberstam |
| Father | Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Halberstam |
| Wife 1 | Chana Teitelbaum |
| Children 1 | 11 children |
| Wife 2 | Chaya Nechama Ungar |
| Children 2 |
Zvi Elimelech Halberstam Shmiel Dovid Halberstam Miriam Leah (wife of Rabbi Shlomo Goldman) Mindy (wife of Rabbi Dov Berel Weiss) Hindy (wife of Rabbi Fishel Mutzen) Yehudis (wife of Rabbi Shaul Yehuda Prizant) Suri Esther (wife of Rabbi Duvid Shapiro) |
Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam (January 10, 1905 – June 18, 1994) was an Orthodox rabbi and the founding Rebbe of the Sanz-Klausenburg Hasidic dynasty.
Halberstam became one of the youngest rebbes in Europe, leading thousands of followers in the town of Klausenburg, Romania, before World War II. His wife, eleven children and most of his followers were murdered by the Nazis while he was incarcerated in several concentration camps. After the war, he moved to the United States and later to Israel, rebuilt Jewish communal life in the displaced persons camps of Western Europe, re-established his dynasty in the United States and Israel, founded a Haredi neighborhood in Israel and a Sanz community in the United States, established a hospital in Israel run according to Jewish law, and rebuilt his own family with a second marriage and the birth of seven more children.
Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam was born in 1905 in the town of Rudnik, Poland. He was a great-grandson (through the direct male line) of Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz (the Divrei Chaim), one of the great Hasidic leaders of Polish Jewry, and a grandson of the Gorlitzer Rebbe, Rabbi Baruch Halberstam (1829–1906). His father, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Halberstam, the Rav of Rudnik, instilled in the young Yekusiel Yehudah a love of Hasidut and Torah scholarship, sharing with him stories of how the Divrei Chaim learned, prayed and conducted his tish (Shabbat and Jewish holiday celebratory table).
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