Naftali Asher Yeshayahu Moscowitz

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Grand Rabbi Naftali Asher Yeshayahu Moscowitz is the Melitzer Rebbe of Ashdod, Israel and author of the Peiros Hailan halachic discourses on the laws of Chol HaMoed and the Nefesh Chaya a commentary and linear interpretation of the Book of Psalms.

The Melitzer Rebbe is the grandson of the Shatzer Rebbe of London, and a seventh generation son-after-son descendent of Rebbe Yechiel Michal of Zolochiv. His saintly grandfathers also include the Baal Shem Tov, The Degel Machane Ephraim, The Noam Elimelech, Rebbe Meir of Promishlan, Rebbe Naftali of Ropshitz, and other well known tzaddikim.[1]

Grand Rabbi Moscowitz is married to Mrs. Shaindel Kahana Stern of London, daughter of an understudy of the Shotzer Rov of London, the Melitzer rebbe's grandfather.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Visit to London
  2. ^ Melitzer Rebbe re-marries
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