Sanz

The Sanz Hasidic dynasty was founded by Rabbi Chaim Halberstam (1793-1876) Rabbi of Nowy Sącz (Sanz, [צאנז Tsanz] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)), author of Divrei Chaim and a son-in-law of Rabbi Boruch Frankel Thumim (1760-1828), Rabbi of Lipník nad Bečvou (Yiddish:לייפניק Leipnik), author of Boruch Taam.

Founder of dynasty

The Divrei Chaim was a disciple of Rabbi Naftali of Ropshitz, who was a disciple of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk, a disciple of the Maggid of Mezritch, the leading disciple of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism.

The Divrei Chaim had fourteen children; his seven sons were: Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam (1814-1898) of Shinive; Rabbi Duvid Halberstam (1821-1894) of Chrzanow; Rabbi Meir Nosson Halberstam (1827-1855), father of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam, the first Bobover Rebbe; Rabbi Boruch Halberstam (1829-1906) of Gorlice ([גארליץ Gorlitz] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)); Rabbi Aharon Halberstam, his successor in Nowy Sącz; Rabbi Shulem Lazer Halberstam of Ratzfert (1862-1944), who was murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust; Rabbi Yeshaye Halberstam of Czchów (Yiddish: טשחויוו Tshkhoiv) (1864-1944), who was also murdered by the Nazis; and seven daughters; among them a daughter Ruchel who married Rabbi Mordecai Dov Twerski, the Admor of Hornsteipl.

Offshoots

Bobov

Sanz-Gorlitz

Grand Rabbi Boruch Halberstam ABD Gorlitz
- Grand Rabbi Elisha Halberstam (1860-1941)—died in Siberia
  - Grand Rabbi Boruch Halberstam (d. 1982) of Gorlitz-Bnei Brak, son-in-law of Rabbi Yisachor Teichtal of Pishtian, Eim Habonim S'meicho

Sanz-Klausenburg

Sanz-Zhmigrod

One offshoot of Sanz is Sanz-Zhmigrod.

Grand Rabbi Sinai Halberstam (1870-1941), the first Zhmigroder Rebbe, a son of Rabbi Boruch of Gorlitz; died in the Omsk forest, Siberia.
- Grand Rabbi Yaakov Halberstam (1902-1967), the Tshokaver Rebbe, son-in-law of the Shatzer Rebbe
- Grand Rabbi Aryeh Leibish Halberstam (1909-2007), the second Zhmigroder Rebbe, son-in-law of the Stretiner Rebbe, Grand Rabbi Yehuda Tsvi Brandwein
  - Grand Rabbi Halberstam , the third Zhmigroder Rebbe, of Antwerp

The Grand Rabbi of Sanz-Zhmigrod, Rabbi Aryeh Leibish Halberstam, author of Arye Sho'ag", died on 7 January 2007 in Netanya's Laniado hospital, which is run by Sanz-Klausenburg^[1]. In his youth he studied under the Tshebiner Rov and Rabbi Meir Shapiro. During World War II had to leave Zhmigrid for Kraków, then Lviv and eventually Siberia. He served as a rebbe in Petach Tikva, where he found the Divrei Chaim Synagogue, Yafo and Bnei Brak. For a short priod in 1950 he lived in Antwerp.

A scion of Sanz-Tshokave, the halachic authority Rabbi Moshe Halberstam of the Edah HaChareidis, died in 2006.

Books of the Sanz movement

The main Hasidic works revered by the Sanz Dynasty are Divrei Chaim, by Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Tzanz and Divrei Yechezkel by his son, Rabbi Yechezkel Halberstam of Shineva.

References

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External link

http://sanzusa.com/ - The official Sanz-Klausenburg website (in Hebrew). Contains pictures and video of the sect.

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