A report on Yosef Leifer
The founder and first Rebbe of the Pittsburg Hasidic dynasty in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which he led for 42 years.
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Avraham Abba Leifer
5 linksThe second Rebbe of the Pittsburg Hasidic dynasty and the instigator for the relocation of the Hasidut from its original location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the Israeli coastal city of Ashdod.
The second Rebbe of the Pittsburg Hasidic dynasty and the instigator for the relocation of the Hasidut from its original location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the Israeli coastal city of Ashdod.
Avraham Abba Leifer was born in Nagykároly, Hungary (today Carei, Romania) to Rabbi Yosef Leifer, the grandson of Rabbi Mordechai of Nadvorna and a direct descendant of Grand Rabbi Meir the Great of Premishlan, a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov.
Pittsburgh (Hasidic dynasty)
3 linksPittsburgh is a Hasidic dynasty founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1924 by Rabbi Yosef Leifer, a Hungarian rabbi and descendant of Rabbi Mordechai of Nadvorna.
Mordechai Yissachar Ber Leifer
4 linksThe third Rebbe of the Pittsburgh Hasidic dynasty.
The third Rebbe of the Pittsburgh Hasidic dynasty.
He was the son of Grand Rabbi Avraham Abba Leifer and the grandson of Grand Rabbi Yosef Leifer, a scion of the Nadvorna Hasidic dynasty who founded the Hasidut in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1924.
Nadvorna (Hasidic dynasty)
2 linksHasidic rabbinical dynasty within ultra-Orthodox Judaism.
Hasidic rabbinical dynasty within ultra-Orthodox Judaism.
Grand Rabbi Yosef Leifer of Pittsburg (1891–1966), author of Tzidkas Yosef, son of Rabbi Yissachar Dov Ber (Bertche) of Nadvorna-Satmar
Meshulam Eliezer Leifer
3 linksFourth Rebbe of the Pittsburgh Hasidic dynasty.
Fourth Rebbe of the Pittsburgh Hasidic dynasty.
His paternal great-grandfather, Grand Rabbi Yosef Leifer, established the Pittsburgh Hasidic dynasty in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the late 1920s, and his grandfather, Grand Rabbi Avraham Abba Leifer, moved the Hasidut to Ashdod, Israel, in 1970.
Carei
1 linksCity in Satu Mare County, northwestern Romania, near the border with Hungary.
City in Satu Mare County, northwestern Romania, near the border with Hungary.
Yosef Leifer (1891–1966), founder and first Rebbe of the Pittsburg Hasidic dynasty