Apta (Hasidic dynasty)

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Apt is the name of a Hasidic dynasty within Haredi Judaism. Its founder, Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of Apt (Opatów), popularly known as the Apter Rebbe or Apter Rov, was born in Zhmigrid, Poland in 1748 and died in Mezhbizh, Ukraine, Russian Empire in 1825.

1 The Hasidic dynasty of Mezhbizh/Zinkov
- 1.1 Lineage
2 References
3 See also

[edit] The Hasidic dynasty of Mezhbizh/Zinkov

Illuminated pages from the pinkas (minutes) books of the Mishnah Society of the Apter Rov's kloyz, Medzhybizh, circa 1840.

Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of Apt was the founder of the Apter Mezhbizh/Zinkover rabbinic dynasty. In honor of the dynasty's founder, his descendants adopted the family name Heshel.

The males in this family took wives several different times from the family of the Ryzhiner Rebbe.

[edit] Lineage

R. Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of Apt (1748-1825)

R. Yitschak Meir of Zinkov (1776-1854)
R. Yosef Moshe of Mezhbizh

R. Meshulam Zusia of Zinkov (1813-1865)

R. Chaim Menachem of Zinkov (1837-1894)

R. Pinchas of Zinkov (1872-1916)

R. Abraham Joshua Heshel of Zinkov

R. Moses of Zinkov (1879-1923)

R. Chaim Menachem of Zinkov / Bnei Brak

R. Abraham Joshua Heshel of Mezhbizh (1832-1880)

R. Israel Shalom Joseph of Mezhbizh (1853-1911)

R. Yitshak Meir of Mezhbizh-Haifa (1904-1985)
R. Abraham Joshua Heshel of Mezhbizh-Tarnopol (1892-1943)

R. Yitshak Meir of Kopyczynce (1862-1936)

R. Abraham Joshua Heshel of Kopyczynce (1888-1967)

R. Meshulam Zusia of Mezhbizh (1871-1920)
R. Moses Mordecai of Mezhbizh (1873-1917)

Prof. Abraham Joshua Heschel ((January 11, 1907, Warsaw, Poland – December 23, 1972), considered by many to be one of the most significant Jewish theologians of the 20th century

[edit] References

Chapin, David A. and Weinstock, Ben, The Road from Letichev: The history and culture of a forgotten Jewish community in Eastern Europe, Volume 1. ISBN 0-595-00666-3 iUniverse, Lincoln, NE, 2000.
Kaplan, Aryeh (1991) Chasidic Masters: History, Biography, Thought. Moznaim Publishing Corporation.
Rabinowicz, Tzvi M. The Encyclopedia of Hasidism: ISBN 1-56821-123-6 Jason Aronson, Inc., 1996.