Sadigura (Hasidic dynasty)
Sadigura is a Hasidic dynasty named for the city of Sadhora, Bukovina, Austria. The dynasty began with Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov Friedman of Sadigura, a son of Rabbi Yisrael Friedman of Ruzhyn, the founder of the Ruzhiner dynasty. Sadigura is one of the branches of the Ruzhiner dynasty, together with Bohush, Boyan, Chortkov, Husiatyn, and Shtefanesht.
As of 2013, Sadigura has several hundred members in Israel and Europe. Its members reside in Israel in Jerusalem, Ashdod, Modiin Ilit, Beitar Ilit, and Elad, and in Europe in London and Antwerp.[1] The dynasty is centered on the sixth Sadigura Rebbe's beis medrash in Bnei Brak, Israel.
History
In 1838, the Ruzhiner Rebbe was accused of complicity in the death of two Jews accused of being informers, and was imprisoned for two years by the Russian authorities. On his release, he fled to Kishinev, then to Iaşi and other places (including Shatsk in Bukovina, Kompling, and Skola)[2] before finally settling in Sadigura, Bukovina, in 1842.
There, he re-established his court in all its glory. In 1847, his wife, Sarah, died and he remarried Malka, the widow of Rabbi Hersh of Rimanov. When he died at the age of 54 on 9 October 1850,[3] each of his sons moved to different towns to establish their own courts. His eldest son, Rabbi Sholom Yosef Friedman (1813-1851),[4] remained in Sadigura to continue leading the court his father had founded, but died ten months later.[5] At this point, the second son[4] of the Ruzhiner Rebbe, Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov, assumed the mantle of leadership, becaming known as the first Sadigura Rebbe.[6]
After the death of Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov of Sadigura in Israel in 1961, his Hasidim asked his younger brother, Shlomo Chaim of Sadigura, to succeed him, but the latter demurred. He did agree to sit in his brother's place at tischen held on Jewish holidays and on the yahrtzeits of his Ruzhiner and Sadigura ancestors.[7] Meanwhile, the Sadigura dynasty continued through the Rebbe's nephew, Rabbi Mordechai Sholom Yosef Friedman (1897–1979), who led Sadigura Hasidim in Sadigura and Przemyśl before emigrating to Tel Aviv in 1939.[5] Upon his death in 1979, Rabbi Mordechai Sholom Yosef was succeeded by his son, Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov Friedman of Bnei Brak (1928–2013), who was succeeded by his only son, the present Sadigura Rebbe, Rabbi Tzvi Yisrael Moshe Friedman of Bnei Brak.[8]
Lineage of the Sadigura dynasty
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Image gallery
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Interior of the hasidic synagogue in Sadhora -
Interior of the new Sadigura Beis HaMedrash in Bnei Brak
See also
- History of the Jews in Poland
- History of the Jews in Galicia (Central Europe)
- History of the Jews in Ukraine
References
- ^ Ettinger, Yair (Jan.01, 2013). "Hasidic leader Yaakov Friedman, the Admor of Sadigura, dies at 84". Haaretz. Retrieved Jan/2/13.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=and|date=(help) - ^ Itzhak Alfassi (2008). "RUZHIN, ISRAEL". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved Jan/7/13.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ Assaf, David (2002). The Regal Way: The life and times of Rabbi Israel of Ruzhin. Stanford University Press. p. 170. ISBN 0804744688.
- ^ a b Friedman, Yisroel. The Golden Dynasty: Ruzhin, the royal house of Chassidus. Jerusalem: The Kest-Lebovits Jewish Heritage and Roots Library, 2nd English edition, 2000, p. 20.
- ^ a b Meringer, Motty (31 August 2009). "The Sadigur Chassidic Court". Tog News. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
- ^ Friedman, The Golden Dynasty, pp. 15–17.
- ^ Friedman, The Golden Dynasty, p. 46.
- ^ Ronen, Gil (1 January 2013). "Sadigura Rebbe Passes Away". Arutz Sheva. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
Further reading
- Leo Bruckenthal. Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina ("History of the Jews in Bukovina"), Hugo Gold: Tel Aviv, 1962, pp. 98–105.
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