Sanz (Hasidic dynasty)

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The Sanz Hasidic dynasty was founded by Rabbi Chaim Halberstam (1793-1876) Rabbi of Nowy Sącz (Sanz, Yiddish: צאנז Tsanz), author of Divrei Chaim and a son-in-law of Rabbi Boruch Frankel Thumim (1760-1828), Rabbi of Lipník nad Bečvou (Yiddish:לייפניק Leipnik), author of Boruch Taam.

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[edit] Founder of dynasty

The Divrei Chaim was a disciple of Rabbi Naftali of Ropshitz, who was a disciple of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk, a disciple of the Maggid of Mezritch, the leading disciple of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism.

The Divrei Chaim had fourteen children; his seven sons were: Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam (1814-1898) of Shinive; Rabbi Duvid Halberstam (1821-1894) of Chrzanow; Rabbi Myer Nosson Halberstam (1827-1855), father of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam, the first Bobover Rebbe; Rabbi Boruch Halberstam (1829-1906) of Gorlice (Yiddish: גארליץ Gorlitz); Rabbi Aharon Halberstam, his successor in Nowy Sącz; Rabbi Shulem Lazer Halberstam of Ratzfert (1862-1944), who was murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust; Rabbi Yeshaye Halberstam of Czchów (Yiddish: טשחויוו Tshkhoiv) (1864-1944), who was also murdered by the Nazis; and seven daughters; among them a daughter Ruchel who married Rabbi Mordecai Dov Twerski, the Admor of Hornsteipl.

[edit] Offshoots

[edit] Bobov

Main article: Bobov (Hasidic dynasty)

[edit] Sanz-Gribov

  • Grand Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz
    • Rabbi Aaron Halberstam, zt”l (1826-1903), Sanzer Rav; son of Rabbi Chaim
      • Rabbi Arye Leibish Halberstam, zt”l (1852-1935), Sanzer Rav; son of Rabbi Aaron
        • Rabbi Mordechai Zev Halberstam, zt”l hy”d (1882-1942), Sanzer Rav; son of Rabbi Aryeh Leibish
          • Rabbi Boruch Halberstam, zt”l hy”d (1903-1942), Gribover Rav; son of Rabbi Mordechai Zev
            • Rabbi Naftali Halberstam, Sanz-Gribover Rebbe in Boro Park, son of Rabbi Boruch


The following dynasties stem from Rabbi Boruch Halberstam, the Gorlitser Rov:

[edit] Sanz-Gorlitz

  • Grand Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz
    • Grand Rabbi Boruch Halberstam ABD Gorlitz
      • Grand Rabbi Elisha Halberstam (1860-1941)—died in Siberia


[edit] Sanz-Klausenburg

Main article: Klausenberg (Hasidic dynasty)


[edit] Sanz-Zhmigrod

  • Grand Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz
    • Grand Rabbi Baruch Halberstam of Gorlitz
      • Grand Rabbi Sinai Halberstam (1870-1941), the first Zhmigroder Rebbe, a son of Rabbi Boruch of Gorlitz; died in the Omsk forest, Siberia.
        • Grand Rabbi Yaakov Halberstam (1902-1967), the Tshokaver Rebbe, son-in-law of the Shatzer Rebbe
        • Grand Rabbi Aryeh Leibish Halberstam (1909-2007), the second Zhmigroder Rebbe, son-in-law of the Stretiner Rebbe, Grand Rabbi Yehuda Tsvi Brandwein
          • Grand Rabbi Halberstam , the third Zhmigroder Rebbe, of Antwerp
          • Grand Rabbi Sinai Halberstam, Zhmigroder Rebbe of America

The Grand Rabbi of Sanz-Zhmigrod, Rabbi Aryeh Leibish Halberstam, author of Arye Sho'ag, died on 7 January 2007[1] in Netanya's Laniado hospital, which is run by Sanz-Klausenburg. In his youth he studied under the Tshebiner Rov and Rabbi Meir Shapiro. During World War II had to leave Zhmigrid for Kraków, then Lviv and eventually Siberia. He served as a rebbe in Petach Tikva, where he found the Divrei Chaim Synagogue, Yafo and Bnei Brak. For a short period in 1950 he lived in Antwerp.


A scion of Sanz-Tshokave, the halachic authority Rabbi Moshe Halberstam of the Edah HaChareidis, died in 2006.

[edit] Books of the Sanz movement

The main Hasidic works revered by the Sanz Dynasty are Divrei Chaim, by Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Tsanz and Divrei Yechezkel by his son, Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam

[edit] See also

The previous Sanz-Klausenberg Rebbe founded Laniado Hospital in Netanya.

[edit] References

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[edit] External link

  • http://sanzusa.com/ - The official Sanz-Klausenburg website (in Hebrew). Contains pictures and video of the sect.
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