David Moshe Rabinowicz
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David Moshe Rabinowicz (1906-1942) was a rabbi who was the rosh yeshiva (dean) of Kibbutz Govoha and the Keser Torah network. He was murdered by Nazis during the Holocaust.
Biography
Rabinowicz was the son of Nosson Nachum Hakohen Rabinowicz the rebbe of Krimilov, and grandson of the second Radomsker rebbe, Avraham Yissachar Dov Rabinowicz."A World That Was", Hamodia Magazine, 21 July 2011, p. 7. He married Reizel, the only daughter of his first cousin Shlomo Chanoch Rabinowicz who was the fourth Radomsker rebbe.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dmEFAAAAMAAJ&q=moses+david+hakohen+rabinowicz |page=276 |title=Hasidism: The movement and its masters |year=1988 |publisher=J. Aronson |last=Rabinowicz |first=Tzvi |isbn=0-87668-998-5}}{{cite web |url=http://www.radomsk.org/radomskerhistory.html |title=Keser Torah Radomsk |publisher=radomsk.org |accessdate=20 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218154911/http://www.radomsk.org/radomskerhistory.html |archivedate=18 February 2012 }}
Rosh Yeshiva
Rabinowicz headed Kibbutz Govoha, which his father established in Sosnowiec exclusively for high-level students and married students. He also served as rosh yeshiva of the entire Keser Torah network, which had 36 Keser Torah yeshivas enrolling over 4,000 students in Poland by the start of World War II, when they were disbanded after the German invasion of Poland in 1939, after which most of their students were murdered in the Holocaust.{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishpressads.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=38878 |title=Radomsker Rebbe's Yahrzeit |work=The Jewish Press |last=Tannenbaum |first=Rabbi Gershon |date=7 April 2009 |accessdate=12 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615210441/http://www.jewishpressads.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=38878 |archivedate=15 June 2012 }}
World War II, death, and legacy
Rabinowicz was imprisoned by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he continued to teach.Shema Yisrael, pp. 329–330.
He, his wife Reizel, and their infant son, were murdered by the Nazis on 1 August 1942.{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishpress.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=38878 |title=Radomsker Rebbe's Yahrzeit |work=The Jewish Press |last=Tannenbaum |first=Rabbi Gershon |date=7 April 2009 |accessdate=12 July 2011}} {{dead link|date=January 2020}}
His students included Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft.
Written works
In 1989 a collection of his writing were published in a book entitled "Toras Ha'olos".{{cite book |title=Toras Ha'olos |publisher=Otzar Hachochmah |url=https://tablet.otzar.org/en/book/book.php?book=162813&width=-17&scroll=0&udid=15801630254744732&pagenum=1 |accessdate=2 November 2020}}
In 2015, another book consisting of a collection of his writings was published. The book is titled "[https://tablet.otzar.org/en/book/book.php?book=191767&width=0&scroll=0&udid=0&pagenum=1 Zichron Kohen]".
References
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Category:Polish Orthodox rabbis
Category:20th-century Polish rabbis
Category:People from Sosnowiec