• Spinka is the name of a Hasidic group within Haredi Judaism. The group originated in a city called Szaplonca (Yiddish: Spinka), in Máramaros County, Kingdom...
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  • Ropshitz (Yiddish: ראָפשיץ‎, Hebrew: רופשיץ‎) is the name of a Hasidic dynasty, or rabbinical family and group, who are descendants of Rabbi Naftali Zvi...
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  • Joseph Meir Weiss (category Spinka (Hasidic dynasty))
    Hebrew: יוסף מאיר ווייס), was a Hungarian rabbi and founder of the Spinka Hasidic dynasty. He is often known as the "Imrei Yosef" after his major work. The...
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  • A Hasidic dynasty or Chassidic dynasty is a dynasty led by Hasidic Jewish spiritual leaders known as rebbes, and usually has some or all of the following...
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    Ziditshov is a Hasidic dynasty originating in town Ziditshov (as known in Yiddish; or Zhydachiv in Ukrainian), in Galicia (a province of the former Austro-Hungarian...
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  • Fishel Hershkowitz (category Spinka (Hasidic dynasty))
    for fear that he would lose his Hasidic fervor. Thus, he remained in Munkacs, learning with other bachurim in the Spinka kloiz (synagogue) without a Rav...
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  • Spinka financial controversy is a case in which five Spinka charitable organisations under the auspices of Grand Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Weisz, the Spinka...
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  • Melitz was a Galician Hassidic dynastic sect, a branch of the Ropshitz Hasidic sect. The progenitor of the dynasty was Rabbi Ya'akov Horowitz, the son...
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  • Joseph Meir Weiss (1838–1909), Hungarian rabbi and founder of the Spinka Hasidic dynasty This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same...
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    History of the Jews in Antwerp (category Hasidic Judaism in Europe)
    to Antwerp to see their rebbe. There are also other Hasidic rebbes in Antwerp, including a Spinka Rebbe and a Zhemigrader Rebbe. These groups have rebbes...
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    Menachem Mendel Hager (category Hasidic rabbis in Israel)
    1957) is one of the two Grand Rabbis of the Viznitz (Admor Mviznitz) Hasidic dynasty in Bnei Brak and a current member of Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council...
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    HoRoim, Spinka, Brisk, and a section of other Litvish Haredim) Other representative associations may be linked to specific Haredi and Hasidic groups....
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    dominant Munkácser hasidic community there co-existed smaller yet vibrant Hasidic groups who were followers of the rebbes Belz, of Spinka, Zidichov, and Vizhnitz...
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  • Spink (1904–1988), American physician and medical researcher Spinka (Hasidic dynasty) Spinks, a surname This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    were 1,023 Jews in Săpânța, which was the original home of the Spinka dynasty of Hasidic Rebbes. Stan Ioan Pătraș (1908–1977), wood sculptor, the creator...
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  • Vien (וויען) is a Rabbinical hasidic dynasty originating in present-day Vienna. The previous rav of Vien was Rav Chaim Z. Hersh Zegelbaum of Brooklyn...
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    Borough Park, Brooklyn (category Hasidic Judaism in New York City)
    many Hasidic groups, the largest being the Bobov sect (including Bobov-45). The Boyan, Belz, Ger, Satmar, Karlin-Stolin, Vizhnitz, Munkacz, Spinka, Klausenburg...
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    Meshulam Eliezer Leifer (category Hasidic rabbis in Israel)
    לייפער; born January 23, 1979) is the fourth Rebbe of the Pittsburgh Hasidic dynasty. He succeeded his father, Grand Rabbi Mordechai Yissachar Ber Leifer...
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    Abby Stein (category Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty) members)
    the first openly transgender woman raised in a Hasidic community, and is a direct descendant of Hasidic Judaism's founder, the Baal Shem Tov. In 2015,...
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    Mordechai Hager (category American Hasidic rabbis)
    הגר; Yiddish: האגער) was the rebbe (hereditary rabbinic leader) of the Hasidic sect of Vizhnitz for 46 years. He was born in Grossverdein to Rabbi Chaim...
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    Vizhnitz, Munkacz, Spinka, Klausenburg, Skver, and Puppa communities, among others. Additionally, a community of Haredi non-Hasidic Lithuanian Jews (typically...
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