Nikolsburg (Hasidic dynasty)

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Grave of Reb Shmelke in Nikolsburg.

Nikolsburg (Yiddish: ניקאלשפורג) is the name of several Hasidic dynasties descending from Rabbi Shmuel Shmelke Horowitz (1726 - 1778), who held a rabbinic post in Nikolsburg, Margraviate of Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic), from where the dynasty gets in name. Reb Shmelke was a disciple of Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezeritch and held rabbinic positions in Rychwal and Sieniawa, before becoming the Chief Rabbi of Nikolsburg. He had several notable disciples such as Rabbi Moshe Leib of Sassov, Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin and Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev. Nikolsburg Hasidism and it's branches are generally known to be more liberal than contemporary Hasidic counterparts. The idea of loving all Jews is a central tenant of Nikolsburg Hasidism. [1][2][3]

Lineage[]

  • Grand Rabbi Shmuel Shmelke ha-Levi Horowitz - Rebbe Reb Shmelke (1726–1778), Nikolsburger Rebbe.
    • Grand Rabbi Tzvi Yehoshua ha-Levi Horowitz - Reb Yehoshua Charif (1754–1816), Treybitsher Rebbe. Son of the Rebbe Reb Shmelke, and son-in-law of his uncle Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz of Frankfurt (1731–1805). He served first as the Rebbe of Yemnitz, Treybitsh and finally Prostitz, where he died and is buried in the Jewish cemetery there. He served as a mentor to his cousin Rabbi Naftali Zvi Horowitz of Ropshitz (1760–1827) and he authored the works Chiddushei ha-Ribash (Przemyśl, 1878) and Simchas Moshe (Lvov, 1869) on the Talmud.
      • Grand Rabbi Yaakov David ha-Levi Horowitz (ca. 1785–ca. 1855). Son of Reb Yehoshua Charif, he served on the Brody Beis Din and lived the life of an acetic.
        • Grand Rabbi Noach Pinchas Ha-Levi Horowitz (ca. 1805–1875), Magierover Rebbe. Son of Reb Yaakov David Horowitz, and son-in-law of Rabbi Yosef ha-Kohen of Magierov. He established a Chassidic court in Brody and later Magierov, after succeeding his father-in-law. Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Friedman of Sadigura (1820–1883) used to send his many disciples to Reb Pinchas' court due to his reputation as a miracle worker. In 1861, Reb Pinchas immigrated to Eretz Yisrael, where he became close with the third Lelover Rebbe, Rabbi Eleazar Menachem Mendel Biderman (1827–1882). He lived an acetic life and was known have stayed up all Shabbos learning Kabbalah and Torah. He died in Tiberias, where he is buried.
          • Grand Rabbi Alexander Yitzchak ha-Levi Horowitz (1826–1886). Son of Reb Noach Pinchas Horowitz. He was a leading Chassidic Tzaddik in Zlotshov, where he died young.
            • Grand Rabbi Shmuel Shmelke Ha-Levi Horowitz (1860–1898). Son of Reb Alexander YItzchak Horowitz, and son-in-law of Reb Eleazar Menachem Mendel Biderman. He was known throughout Jerusalem as a great Chassidic Tzaddik.
              • Grand Rabbi Pinchas David ha-Levi Horowitz (1876–1941), first Bostoner Rebbe. Son of Reb Shmuel Shmelke Horowitz, and son-in-law Rabbi Aaron Brandwein of Felshtin (1842–1906). In 1915 he founded the Boston Chasidic dynasty and he became known for his love of his fellow Jew and his uncompromising adherence to the highest standards of rabbinic law. In the classic Chasidic tradition, he traveled to many Jewish communities throughout the northeast, spending special weekends infusing spirituality and Chasidic warmth in the lives of many Jews. In 1939 he relocated his congregation to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, where he died only two years later.
                • Grand Rabbi Moshe ha-Levi Horowitz (1909–1985), Bostoner Rebbe of Borough Park. Son of Reb Pinchas David Horowitz, and son-in-law of Rabbi Chaim Avraham Eichenstein of Zidichov. He established the Darchei Noam Yeshivah and was a proponent of the Agudath Yisrael of America. He was also a member of the Mo’etzet Gedolei ha-Torah. Like his father, he worked diligently to help bring Jews, escaping the Holocaust, to America.
                  • Grand Rabbi Chaim Avraham ha-Levi Horowitz (1933–2016), Bostoner Rebbe of Borough Park. Son of Reb Moshe Horowitz, and son-in-law of Rabbi Eliezer Adler of Zhvil-Los Angeles (1909–2007). He founded the Bostoner community in Ramat Beit Shemesh, where he resided later in his life. He composed contemporary Chasidic music and many of his compositions were performed by leading Jewish music artists of the day.
                    • Grand Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Horowitz (b. 1956), Bostoner Rebbe of Lawrence, New Jersey. Son of Reb Chaim Avraham Horowitz, and son-in-law of Rabbi Alter Yitzchok Isaac Weinberger of Turka-New York (1905–1974). He is a noted expert in Jewish law as regards the Kosher Code especially the production of Matzo for Passover.
                  • Grand Pinchas David ha-Levi Horowitz (b. 1945), Bostoner Rebbe of Flatbush, Brooklyn. Son of Reb Moshe Horowitz, and son-in-law of Rabbi Meir ha-Levi Landau of Drubitsh-Tel Aviv (d. 1988).
                • Grand Rabbi Levi Yitzchak ha-Levi Horowitz (1921–2009), Bostoner Rebbe of Brookline, Massachusetts. Son of Pinchas David Horowitz, and son-in-law of Rabbi Naftali Unger of Neumarkt (1882–1942). He was a Rebbe in Brookline, where he stablished the Beth Pinchas community centre. He was famous for his Kiruv programs and attracted many assimilated American Jews to Orthodoxy. In 1984, Reb Levi Yitzchak founded a Bostoner community in Har Nof. He also founded ROFEH International, a community-based medical referral and hospitality liaison support agency.
                  • Grand Rabbi Pinchas David ha-Levi Horowitz (1943–2021), Chuster Rebbe of Brooklyn, New York. Son of Reb Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, and son-in-law of Rabbi Yehoshua Greenwald of Chust (1909–1969). He established a Bostoner community in Beitar Illit and succeeded his father-in-law as Chuster Rebbe,
                  • Grand Rabbi Mayer Alter ha-Levi Horowitz (b. 1946), Bostoner Rebbe of Jerusalem. Son of Reb Levi Yitzchak Horowitz. He founded Machon ha-Nesher ha-Gadol, a Jewish publication company. In 2009, after the death of his father, he was designated to succeed his father in Har Nof. He also took his father's position as a member of the Mo’etzet Gedolei ha-Torah of Agudath Israel of Israel.
                  • Grand Rabbi Naftali Yehuda ha-Levi Horowitz (b. 1952), Bostoner Rebbe of Brookline, Massachusetts. Son of Reb Levi Yitzchak Horowitz. He is the rebbe of the Boston Hasidic community from the New England Chassidic Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, built by his father, and also directs ROFEH International, the community-based medical referral and hospitality liaison support agency established by his father.
          • Grand Rabbi David Zvi Shlomo Biderman (1844–1918), fourth Lelover Rebbe. Son of Reb Eleazar Menachem Mendel Biderman, and son-in-law of Reb Noach Pinchas Horowitz. He is the progenitor of the modern Lelov Chasidic Dynasty and served as a mentor to the first Bostoner Rebbe, Reb Pinchas David Horowitz. His great-grandson, Rabbi Pinchas Yitzchak Biderman (b. 1940) is the Lelov-Nikolsburger Rebbe of Jerusalem.
      • Grand Rabbi Shmuel Shmelke ha-Levi Horowitz (d. 1824), Reisher Rebbe. Son of Reb Yehoshua Charif. He established a Chassidic court in Reisha and his Chiddushim are mentioned in his father's work Simchas Moshe.
        • Grand Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak ha-Levi Horowitz-Winograd (1810–1863). Son of Reb Shmuel Shmelke Horowitz, and son-in-law of Rabbi Avraham ha-Levi Shor of Emden. After his father died at a young age, he grew up in Brisk in the home of his maternal grandfather, Reb Yoel Winograd, whose surname he later took. He learnt at the Yeshivot in Emden and Dresden, before immigrating to Lida in 1835, where he became close with the Chassidic Tzaddik, Rabbi Benyamin of Lida.
          • Grand Rabbi Eliyahu Shlomo ha-Levi Horowitz-Winograd - Lida Gaon (1842–1878). Son of Reb Moshe Yitzchak Horowitz-Winograd, and son-in-law of Rabbi Yitzchak Yehudah Leib Rabinowitz of Vilna (1806–1851). In his youth, he learnt at the Vilna Yeshivah. He later returned to Lida, where he soon became known throughout the city for his wealth, wisdom and Talmudic prowess. He ran several lucrative business and put much of his wealth towards local Jewish institutions. He was known to have studied Torah late into the night. Some of his descendants became prominent Maskilim, such as his maternal grandson Aleksander Żyw (1905–1995).
        • Grand Meshullam Zalman ha-Levi Horowitz (ca. 1800–ca. 1870). Son of Reb Shmuel Shmelke Horowitz. He studied at the Yeshivot in Reisha, and later immigrated to Sanok, where he served as a communal rabbi.
          • Grand Rabbi Shmuel Shmelke ha-Levi Horowitz (1826–1890), Sanoker Rebbe. Son of Reb Meshullam Zalman, and son-in-law of Rabbi Ze'ev Wolf Wahl of Przemysl (1805–1872). He was one of the great rabbinic luminary's of Sanok and was the publisher of Simchas Moshe. He was a close disciple of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh ha-Kohen of Rimanov (1778-1846).
      • Grand Rabbi Avraham Yoel ha-Levi Horowitz (ca. 1774–ca. 1825). Son of Reb Yehoshua Charif, and son-in-law of Rabbi Benyamin Frankel of Linsk. He was an ancestor of (1863–1942).
      • Rabbi Baruch Schnitzler of Kaliv (ca. 1765–ca. 1820). Son of Rabbi Avraham Schnitzler of Brody, and son-in-law Reb Yehoshua Charif.
        • Rabbi Yoel Schnitzler of Kotaj (ca.1807–ca. 1865). Son of Reb Baruch Schnitzler, son-in-law of Rabbi Avraham Abba Weiss (d. 1859).
          • Rabbi Baruch Yehudah Schnitzler (1845-1894), Derecske Rav. Son of Reb Yoel Schnitzler, and son-in-law of Rabbi Yaakov Dov Ber Mann (1813–1897). He served for many years as the Chief Rabbi of Derecske, where he gained fame for his Torah learning.
            • Rabbi Shragai Shmuel Schnitzler (1889–1979), Tchabe Rav. Son of Reb Baruch Yehudah Schnitzler. He served as the Chief Rabbi of Tchabe, and immigrated to Jerusalem after the Holocaust, where he became widely known as an esteemed tzaddik.
              • Rabbi Baruch Yehudah Lebovitz (1908–1951). Son-in-law of Reb Shraga Shmuel Schnitzler. He was known to have helped revive Jewish life in the D.P. camps and after the War he immigrated to New York.

Rabbi Mordechai Zev Jungreis[]

Rabbi Mordechai Zev Jungreis, a descendant of Rabbi Mordecai Benet of Nikolsburg is also known as the Nikolsburger Rebbe and is the rabbi of the B'nai Israel Synagogue in Woodbourne, New York.[4]

Literature of Nikolsburg[]

The following are works authored by Reb Shmelke, his son and descendants which are sacred to Nikolsburg Hasidism;

References[]

  1. ^ Valach, Shalom Meir (2002). A Chassidic Journey: The Polish Chassidic Dynasties of Lublin, Lelov, Nikolsburg and Boston. Feldheim Publishers. ISBN 978-1-58330-568-3.
  2. ^ 1919-2002., Rabinowicz, Tzvi (1996). The encyclopedia of Hasidism. Jason Aronson. p. 223. ISBN 1-56821-123-6. OCLC 29843361.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "HOROWITZ, SCHMELKE - JewishEncyclopedia.com". jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  4. ^ "The Woodbourne Shul Website 457 Rute 52 woodbourne ny". the-woodbourne-shul. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
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