Eliyahu Simpson

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Eliyahu Simpson (Yaichel) (1889–1976)^[1] was the Rabbi of the Nusach Ari Tzemach Tzedek Synagogue in Borough Park, Brooklyn^[2] for over fifty years. He was one of the heads of Agudas Chasidei Chabad^[3] and served as personal gabbai for Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn,^[4][5] the sixth Rebbe of Lubavitch, after the latter's arrival in the United States.^[6]

Rabbi Simpson was born at Babruysk in 1889. He studied at Tomchei Tmimim in Lubavitch for over thirteen years, where he was close to the Rebbe Rashab.^[7] He died at New York City on December 21, 1976,^[2] after-which he was succeeded as Rabbi of the Synagogue by his son-in-law, Rabbi Avrohom Rosenfeld. Rabbi Rosenfeld's son is married to the daughter of Aaron Rubashkin.^[6]

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• Rabbi Eliyahu Simpson at Geni.com

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