Bobov (Hasidic dynasty)#Institutions

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{{Tree chart | BST |~| DBM |~| EOL |~| NTH |~| CHS |-| MNH |.|BST=Grand Rabbi
Yisroel ben Eliezer
Baal Shem Tov
(1698–1760)
founder of Hasidism|DBM=Grand Rabbi
Dov Ber
(1710–1772)
the Maggid of Mezritch|EOL=Grand Rabbi
Elimelech of Lizhensk
(1717–1786)
author of Noam Elimelech|NTH=Grand Rabbi
Naftali Tzvi Horowitz of Ropshitz
(1760–1827)
author of Zera Kodesh|CHS=Grand Rabbi
Chaim Halberstam of Sanz
(1793–1876)
author of Divrei Chaim|MNH=Rabbi Myer Noson Halberstam
(1827–1855)}}

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{{Tree chart |!| | | | | | | |,| SH2 |v| NTH |v| FMH | | | | | |SH2={{color|green|3.}} Grand Rabbi
Shlomo Halberstam
(1907–2000)
{{color|green|Third Bobover Rebbe}}
author of Divrei Shlomo|NTH={{color|green|4.}} Grand Rabbi
Hrh"k R Naftali Tzvi Halberstam
(1931–2005)
{{color|green|Fourth Bobover Rebbe}}|FMH=Female Halberstam}}

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{{Tree chart |`| SH1 |-| BH1 |(| | | |)| BH2 |!| MDU |`| RSU |`| RYU | |SH1={{color|green|1.}} Grand Rabbi
Shlomo Halberstam
(1847–1905)
{{color|green|First Bobover Rebbe}}
author of Ateres Shlomo
eldest grandson of the Divrei Chaim|BH1={{color|green|2.}} Grand Rabbi
Ben Zion Halberstam
(1874–1941)
{{color|green|Second Bobover Rebbe}}
author of Kedushas Tzion|BH2={{color|green|5.}} Grand Rabbi
Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam
(b. 1955)
{{color|green|Fifth Bobover Rebbe}}|MDU= Grand Rabbi
Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger Shlita
(b. 1954)
{{color|green|Bobov-45 Rebbe}}|RSU=Rabbi Yosef Unger
Ruv of Beth Midrash Apirion Shel Shlome and R"Y of Yeshiva Ketane of Bobov 45
|RYU=Rabbi Shulim Unger bobov-45 ruv london}}

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{{Tree chart | | | | | | | | |!| | | |)| FMH |`| FMH |,| FMR | |FMH=Female Halberstam|FMR=Female Rubin}}

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{{Tree chart | | | | | | | | |!| | | |!| CYT | | RYR |!| ZHR | |CYT=Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Tauber
Bobov Dayan| RYR={{color|green|}} Rabbi Yehoshua Rubin (born 1952)
Bobov-45 Ruv
|ZHR=Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Rabinovich
present Ruv of Bobov-45 in Monsey}}

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{{Tree chart | | | | | | | | |!| | | |)| FMH | | | | |`| FMR | |FMH=Female Halberstam|FMR=Female Rubin}}

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{{Tree chart | | | | | | | | |!| | | |!| YBG |-| SG| | | MYE | |YBG=Rabbi Yonasan Binyamin Goldberger
First Rebbe of Bikofsk & Rosh Hakolel of Bobov|SG= Rabbi Shimon Goldberger
Second and Current Rebbe of Bikofsk|MYE=Rabbi Meyer Yosef Eichenstein
Present Rosh Hakolel'' of Bobov-45}}

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{{Tree chart | | | | | | | | |!| | | |!| BZB | | | | | | | | | |BZB=Rabbi Ben Zion Blum
Bobover Dayan of London}}

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{{Tree chart | | | | | | | | |!| | | |)| FMH | | | | | | | | | |FMH=Female Halberstam|}}

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{{Tree chart | | | | | | | | |!| | | |!| YYM | | | | | | | | | |YYM=Rabbi Yaakov Yisroel Meisles
Bobover Ruv of Kiryath Bobov in Bat Yam}}

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{{Tree chart | | | | | | | | |!| | | | | BAH | | | | | | | | | |BAH=Rabbi Boruch Avraham Horowitz
present Rosh Yeshiva of Mesivta Eitz Chaim of Bobov}}

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{{Tree chart | | | | | | | | |!| | | |,| BDH |-| BZDH| | | | | | |BDH=Rabbi Baruch Dovid Halberstam
Sorvosher Ruv|BZDH= Rabbi Ben Zion Dov Halberstam}}

{{Tree chart | | | | | | | | |)| CYH |(| | | | | | | | | | | | |CYH=Rabbi Chaim Yehoshua Halberstam}}

{{Tree chart | | | | | | | | |!| | | |`| YYH |-| CYH | | | | | |YYH=Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Halberstam
Ruv of Beis Chaim Yehoshua|CYH=Rabbi Chaim Yehoshua Halberstam
Rabbi of Satmar in Monsey}}

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{{Tree chart | | | | | | | | |!| | | |,| YHP | | | | | | | | | |YHP=Rabbi Yechiel Halberstam
Pokshivnitzer Rebbe of Monsey, NY}}

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{{Tree chart | | | | | | | | |`| YDH |+| CHP | | | | | | | | | |YDH=Rabbi Yechezkel Dovid Halberstam
Pokshivnitzer Rebbe|CHP=Rabbi Chaim Halberstam
Pokshivnitzer Rebbe of Flatbush}}

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{{Tree chart | | | | | | | | | | | | |)| BHP | | | | | | | | | |BHP=Rabbi Ben Zion Avraham Halberstam
Pokshivnitzer Rebbe of Flatbush}}

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{{Tree chart | | | | | | | | | | | | |`| RSH | | | | | | | | | |RSH=Rabbi Shloime Halberstam
Pokshivnitzer Rebbe of Lakewood, New Jersey}}

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Bobov originated with Shlomo Halberstam, who was the grandson of Grand Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz,{{cite web |title=We Are the King's Children |website=Torah.org

|url=https://torah.org/torah-portion/hamaayan-5760-shoftim |date=June 7, 2002}} in the Galician village of Bobowa.

While most of the early yeshivos (Talmudical academies) originated in Lithuania, the 19th century saw the opening of similar institutions in Poland. The first yeshiva in Poland was established by the first Bobover Rebbe in 1881 in Vishnitsa, where he was rabbi then; and it later moved with him to Bobov.

His work was continued by his son, Grand Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam, author of Kedushas Tzion. The Second Bobover Rebbe, Rabbi Ben Zion bar Shlomo Halberstam, was born in 1874 (5634) in the village of Bikofsk, Galicia. His family moved to Bobov and, ... {{cite web |url=http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/communities/trzebinia/religious_life_halberstam.asp |website=YadVaShem.org |title=19 km from Auschwitz. The Story of Trzebinia |access-date=2018-07-23 |archive-date=2018-07-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724002335/http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/communities/trzebinia/religious_life_halberstam.asp |url-status=dead }} The Bobov Yeshiva was originally situated only in the town of Bobov itself. However, under his guidance, the court grew in numbers, with Hasidic youth flocking to Bobov. Subsequently, as many as sixty branches of the yeshiva under the name Etz Chaim were established throughout Galicia.

During World War II, the Bobov Hasidic movement was destroyed. The second Rebbe himself was murdered in the Holocaust, together with family members and thousands of his followers.

Barely 300 Hasidim survived, and the Rebbe's son, Shlomo Halberstam, took it upon himself to rebuild Bobov.{{cite web |quote=...had been all but wiped out by the Nazi Holocaust. Virtually single-handedly, Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam, who has died aged 92, revived it.|date=September 1, 2000 |website=TheGuardian.com|title=Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/sep/02/guardianobituaries}} He first settled in the West Side of Manhattan, later moving to the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. The yeshiva, which was originally located at 184 Brooklyn Avenue, later moved to the nearby Borough Park neighborhood. Shlomo Halberstam was known for his wisdom, his caring for others, and his steadfastness in not taking sides in disputes.

Over the more than fifty yearspre-WW II thru '00 that Shlomo Halberstam was Rebbe of Bobov, he founded and built a worldwide network of synagogues, Hasidic schools for boys and girls,{{cite web |date=August 17, 2000|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1353023/Grand-Rabbi-Solomon-Halberstam.html|title=Grand Rabbi Solomon Halberstam}} mesivtas (high schools), and post-high school houses of learning. Besides schools, a summer camp for boys was founded in 1957 in Ferndale, New York, and a girls camp, Camp Gila, was founded a few years later. At the time of his death in August 2000, he was mourned by more followers than his father had in pre-war Poland. At his funeral it was publicly announced that his oldest son Naftali would succeed him as Rebbe, and his younger brother Ben Zion would serve as Rav Hatzair (assistant rabbi).

With Shlomo Halberstam's death, his older son, Naftali Zvi Halberstam, succeeded him. Naftali Zvi died on March 23, 2005{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 25, 2005

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/25/obituaries/naftali-halberstam-dies-at-74-bobov-hasidims-grand-rabbi.html

|title=Naftali Halberstam Dies at 74; Bobov Hasidim's Grand Rabbi}} (12th of Adar II, 5765), at age 74, leaving a wife, two daughters, and two sons-in-law: Yehoshua Rubin, Rav of Bobov-45; and Mordechai Dovid Unger, Rebbe of Bobov-45.

After Naftali Tzvi Halberstam died in 2005, a dispute arose{{Cite web|url=https://www.vosizneias.com/43572|title=Borough Park, NY - Bobov Dispute Heads Into Final Stage At Din Torah, Not Secular Court|website=VosIzNeias|access-date=2017-12-17|archive-date=2019-04-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430151158/https://www.vosizneias.com/43572|url-status=dead}} among Bobover Hasidim as to who should attain the dynasty leadership. Some began to follow Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam, the younger brother of the late Rebbe, while others followed his son-in-law Unger, who was older by one year.{{sfn|Heilman|2013|p=236}} Unger had already ensconced himself firmly within the community by then, and could not challenge his own father's leadership of Dombrov, which anyway was not as substantial a dynasty.{{sfn|Heilman|2013|p=237}} The matter of succession was brought before a beth din (religious court) in 2007, which ruled that Halberstam would be declared the fifth Rebbe of Bobov ({{lang|he|אדמו"ר מבאבוב}}) with its headquarters on 48th Street in Borough Park,{{sfn|Heilman|2013|p=238}} while Unger would be Rebbe of Bobov-45 ({{lang|he|אדמו"ר מבאבוב-45}}), located on 45th Street.{{sfn|Heilman|2013|p=238}}(October 26, 2017) [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/237233 "Watch: Bobov-45 Rebbe Dances at Wedding"], Arutz 7. Retrieved November 18, 2021.{{cite news|last1=Nussbaum Cohen|first1=Debra|title=Serenading the Bobov Bride|url=http://forward.com/sisterhood/152261/serenading-the-bobov-bride/|work=The Forward|date=February 29, 2012}}{{cite news |newspaper=The Forward|url=https://forward.com/news/national/337575/hasidic-businessman-who-flipped-aids-home-part-of-sect-with-cozy-ties-to-ma|title=Hasidic Businessman Who Flipped AIDS Home Part of Sect With Cozy Ties to Mayor Bill de Blasio|quote=The Bobov rebbe, Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam, ...|date=April 1, 2016}}{{cite web|website=JCR-UK Jewish Communities & Records |url=https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/London/stamford_shteibls/bobov-clapton.htm|title=Bobov Synagogue, Clapton Common, London|access-date=2018-07-23|archive-date=2018-07-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723212357/https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/London/stamford_shteibls/bobov-clapton.htm|url-status=dead|quote=Chasidey Bobov-45 Beth Hamedrash, London, UK. The congregation should not be confused with the Beth Hemedrash of Kehal Chasidei Bobov of Egerton Road N16, which follows Ben Zion Halberstam's leadership.}} While the former community retained the rights to the name "Bobov", Unger's faction was permitted to use the name, provided that the qualifier be added to it.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dropbox.com/s/hhgrhlpcyq1jg4s/bobov%20psd.pdf?dl=0|title=bobov psd.pdf|website=Dropbox}}

An offshoot of the Bobov dynasty, Bobov-45 is headquartered in Borough Park. It has branches in Williamsburg and Monsey, New York; Lakewood, New Jersey; Los Angeles; Montreal; London; Manchester; Antwerp; and an enclave "Yishuv of Chasidei Bobov-45" in Union, New Jersey. In Israel, Bobov-45 has branches in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Beit Shemesh, Ashdod, Elad, and Beitar Illit.

The third Bobover Rebbe, Shlomo Halberstam, rebuilt the Bobov Hasidic dynasty in the United States after losing his wife and most of his children in the Holocaust. His son Naftali, who survived,{{cite web|date=August 1, 2008|title=The Life And Legacy Of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam|url=https://www.vosizneias.com/18763/2008/08/01/borough-park-ny-the-legacy-and-life-of-rabbi-shlomo-halberstam-zt%E2%80%9Dl-the-tzadik-that-rebuild-the-bobov-dynasty-in-america}} became the fourth Rebbe upon his father's death. He had no sons but left two daughters, one of whom married Yehoshua Rubin, and the other Mordechai Dovid Unger. In 2005, after Naftali's death, a group of Bobover Hasidim loyal to his son-in-law, Mordechai Dovid Unger, preferred him to take over the position of Rebbe of Bobov.

The dispute was taken to a beth din (arbitration panel), which ruled that Halberstam held the rights to the name "Bobov", and to all Bobov institutions.

Unger was allowed to use the name Bobov, provided that a qualifier be added to it.{{cite web|url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/237233|title= Bobov-45 Rebbe Dances at Wedding|date=October 26, 2017}} The suffix "-45" was henceforth adopted in tribute to the street on which the community center of the sect was located at the time. In addition, the beth din ordered Bobov to pay $6,200,000 to Bobov-45's Rebbe and dayan in twenty-five quarterly installments, as an allotment of their faction's share of the inheritance of the Bobov enterprise's assets, it is unknown what the value of the assets were at the time.

Unger, the first Grand Rabbi of Bobov-45, is the younger son-in-law of the fourth Bobover Rebbe, Naftali Halberstam. Unger has been active in the wider Jewish community.{{cite web|title=Jan 20, 2016 - The Bobov 45 Rebbe, Reb Mordche Duvid Unger Shlita, being Menachem Aveil the BMG Rish Yeshivah HaRav Yerucham Olshin Shlita|url=http://www.thelakewoodscoop.com/news/2016/01/photos-bobov-45-rebbe-being-menachem-aveil-bmg-rosh-yeshivah.html|date=January 20, 2016|website=TheLakewoodScoop.com}} Yehoshua Rubin, the older son-in-law of Halberstam, is the current dayan and rabbinical leader of the sect.

Community institutions, such as a synagogue, have been built within Bobov-45.

Other Bobov infrastructure includes

a Yeshiva,{{cite web

|title=Rabbinical College Bobover Yeshiva

|url = https://rabbinicalcollegeboboveryeshiva.edu/}}

beth midrash (study hall),{{cite web

|title=Driving directions to Bobov-45 Bais Medrash, Brooklyn, United States

|url=https://www.waze.com/directions/united-states/brooklyn/bobov-45-bais-medrash/187433366.1874399199.1333442.html}}

cheder (elementary school),{{cite web |title=Science Fair at the Bobov-45 Cheider |website=Hamodia.com |url=http://hamodia.x2webs.net/2016/03/14/science-fair-bobov-45-cheider |date=March 14, 2016 |access-date=July 8, 2019 |archive-date=July 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724060815/http://hamodia.x2webs.net/2016/03/14/science-fair-bobov-45-cheider/ |url-status=dead }}

yeshiva ketana (secondary school),"Federal contract awards,..." {{cite web

|title=Contracting Profile: Yeshiva Ketana Of Bobov 45, Inc. Brooklyn NY

|url=https://govtribe.com/vendor/yeshiva-ketana-of-bobov-45-inc-brooklyn-ny}}

mesivta,{{cite web

|url=https://hamodia.com/2017/11/03/bde-harav-mendel-gross-menahel-bobov-45-mesivta

|title=BDE: Harav Mendel Gross, Menahel of Bobov-45 Mesivta |date=November 3, 2017}}

girls school,{{cite web |title=Bobov-45 readies for ceremony This Sunday celebrating the re-dedication of massive 150,000 s.f. school building in Borough Park |url=https://boropark24.com/bobov-45-readies-for-ceremony-this-sunday-celebrating-the-rededication-of-massive-150000-sf-school-building-in-borough-park/ |website=Boro Park 24 |date=Feb 16, 2019}}

day camp,{{cite web |date=June 28, 2016

|title=Bobov 45 (BP) Day Camp Song '16 on Vimeo |url=https://vimeo.com/172670457}}

and wedding halls."Today, is the wedding of a granddaughter of The Bobov-45 Rebbe Shlita ..."

{{cite web |website=BoroPark24 |url=https://www.boropark24.com/bobov-45-wedding-tonight

|title=Bobov 45 Wedding – Furshpeil |date=May 27, 2018}}

• Shlomo Halberstam (first Bobover Rebbe)
• Ben Zion Halberstam
• Shlomo Halberstam (third Bobover rebbe)
• Naftali Halberstam
• Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam
• Mordechai Dovid Unger
• Simcha Eichenstein
• Benzion Miller

• Hasidic Judaism in Poland

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