Mordechai Dovid Unger

Mordechai Dovid Unger
Rebbe of Bobov-45
Term	23 March 2005 – present
Full name	Mordechai Dovid Unger
Born	1954 New York
Father	Yaakov Yitzchok Unger
Wife	Rivka Halberstam

Mordechai Dovid Unger (מרדכי דוד אונגער) was born in 1954 to Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Unger of Dombrov.^[1] He is the younger son-in-law of the late Grand Rabbi Naftali Zvi Halberstam, the fourth of Bobover Rebbe, and the second oldest grandson of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam, the third Bobover Rebbe.

Following the death of his father-in-law, Grand Rabbi Naftali Zvi Halberstam, in 2005, some favored him as his successor. He is currently Bobov-45 Rebbe (45-אדמו"ר מבאבוב), and the other son-in law, Rabbi Yehoshua Rubin, is Bobov-45 Rav (אבד"ק באבוב- 45).

Rebbes of Bobov

1. Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam (1847–1905) grandson of the Sanzer Rebbe, Rabbi Chaim Halberstam
2. Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam (1874–1941)
3. Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam (1907–2000)
4. Rabbi Naftali Halberstam (1931–2005)

Current: Rabbi Ben-Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam as Bobover Rebbe, the younger and most Beloved son of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam. Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger as Bobov-45 Rebbe, (b. 1954) Younger son-in-law of Rabbi Naftali Halberstam.

See also

• Chaim Halberstam
• Bobowa (in Poland)
• Borough Park, Brooklyn

References