Ropshitz (Hasidic dynasty)


Ropshitz is the name of a Hasidic dynasty, or rabbinical family and group, who are descendants of Rabbi Naftali Zvi of Ropshitz. Ropshitz is the name of a town in southern Poland, known in Polish as Ropczyce.
Several contemporary rebbes are styled "Ropshitzer Rebbe", in reference to the Ropshitz dynasty: Rebbe Chaim Rubin, Ropshitzer Rebbe of Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York, and others.

Lineage

Rebbe Menachem Mendel of Linsk

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Rubin of Linsk is often considered the first rebbe of the Ropshitz dynasty. His father, Rabbi Yaakov, was the rabbi of Linsk. He married Beila, daughter of Rabbi Yizchak Halevi Horowitz, the rabbi of . He was a disciple of the Hasidic rebbes Yechiel Michel, the maggid of Zlotshov, and Elimelech of Lizhensk. He was the rabbi of Leshnov ; then,, he became the rabbi of Horodenka. In , after the death of his father, he inherited the latter's position as the rabbi of Linsk. His descendants continued the rabbinical dynasty of Linsk until the Holocaust. A collection of his writings was published by his descendant Yehoshua Rubin of Baligród as Liḳuṭe Maharam, appended to his son, Rebbe Naftali of Ropshitz' Ayalah sheluḥah ‎.

Rebbe Naftali Tzvi of Ropshitz

Rebbe Naftali Tzvi Horowitz of Ropshitz, son of Rabbi Mendl of Linsk. Subsequently rebbe and rabbi of Ropshitz, he succeeded his father as the rabbi of Linsk, and was the rabbi of Strzyżów as well. His children were Rebbe Avraham Chaim of Linsk, Rebbe Yaakov of Melitz, Rebbe Eliezer of Dzhikov, and Ratza, wife of Rebbe Asher Yeshaya Rubin of Ropshitz.

Melitz branch

  • Rebbe Yaakov Horowitz of Melitz, son of Rebbe Naftali Tzvi. His father appointed him as the rabbi of Kolbasov. In about 1810, he was chosen by the Jews of Melitz to be the town's rabbi and was smuggled out of Kolbasov. In Melitz he began to officiate as a rebbe. His teachings were published from manuscript in as Zeraʻ Yaʻaḳov. Selected portions of this manuscript had been published previously.

    Linsk branch

  • Rebbe Avraham Chaim Horowitz of Linsk, son of Rebbe Naftali Tzvi. He briefly succeeded his father as rabbi of Linsk, but died soon after.
  • * Rebbe Menachem Mendel Horowitz of Linsk, son of Rebbe Avraham Chaim
  • ** Rebbe Avraham Chaim Horowitz of Linsk, son of Rebbe Menachem Mendel.
  • ** Rabbi Yisrael Horowitz of Veislitz, son of Rebbe Menachem Mendel. Rabbi of Veislitz.

    Dzhikov branch

  • Rebbe Eliezer Horowitz of Dzhikov, son of Rebbe Naftali Tzvi
  • * Rebbe Meir Horowitz of Dzhikov, son of Rebbe Eliezer. Rabbi of Tarnobrzeg concurrently with his father's being rebbe there. He succeeded his father as rebbe also. He died in Karlsbad. His teachings were published in Imre No'am .
  • ** Rebbe Naftali Chaim Horowitz of Dzhikov, son of Rebbe Meir and son-in-law of Rebbe Moshe Unger of the Dombrov dynasty, son-in-law of Rebbe Chaim Halberstam of Sanz. He settled in Safed and later in Jerusalem, and after his father's death refused to return to Poland to lead his father's followers. He was renowned for his mysterious behavior. Author of Minḥah ḥadashah .
  • *** Rebbe Betzalel Horowitz of Pilzno, son of Rebbe Naftali Chaim. He married Gitele, the eldest daughter of his great-uncle, Rebbe Reuven Horowitz of Dembitz, and was one of his successors as the rebbe of Dembitz, and a contender for the rabbinate of Dembitz. He was the rabbi of Pilzno. He died young.
  • **** Rebbe Menashe Horowitz of Pilzno, son of Rebbe Betzalel. He succeeded his father as the rabbi of Pilzno, and died in the Holocaust.
  • *** Rebbe Eliezer Nisan Horowitz of Safed, son of Rebbe Naftali Chaim. He married Miriam, daughter of Rabbi Yaakov Kahane, the rabbi of Chutzi-Emer. After his premature death, she married Rebbe Yisrael Hager of the Vizhnitz dynasty in his second marriage, who raised her three daughters.
  • **** Rebbe Mordechai Yehuda Adler, a descendant of the Lelov dynasty and son-in-law of Rebbe Eliezer Nisan Horowitz. After his premature death, his wife, Tzirel, daughter of Rebbe Eliezer, married her step-brother Rebbe Baruch Hager, the Rebbe of Seret of the Vizhnitz dynasty, who raised her children from her first marriage.
  • ***** Rebbe Naftali Chaim Adler, Dzhikover Rebbe of Netanya, son of Rebbe Mordechai Yehuda and son-in-law of Rebbe Chaim Meir Hager of Vizhnitz
  • ****** Rabbi Mordechai Adler, son of Rebbe Naftali Chaim. He married the granddaughter of the Temeshvarer–Biksader Rebbe. He was the rabbi and rosh hakolel of the Mincha Chadasha synagogue in Borough Park, Brooklyn. He died in a car accident when he was 38 years old.
  • ****** Rebbe Yisrael Eliezer Adler, Dzhikover Rebbe of Rehovot, son of Rebbe Naftali Chaim and son-in-law of his uncle, Rabbi Moshe Ernster. In 2012, shortly after the death of his uncle, Rebbe Moshe Yehoshua Hager, he was proclaimed by Rebbe Moshe Yehoshua's successors as "Dzhikover Rebbe".
  • *** Rebbe Eliyahu Horowitz of Zholin, son of Rebbe Naftali Chaim
  • **** Rabbi Menashe Horowitz of Zholin, son of Rebbe Eliyahu. He married Matel, daughter of Rebbe Yehuda Unger of Sokolov of the Dombrov dynasty. He was the rabbi of Zholin after his father. His wife and their children died in the Holocaust. He survived and was the unofficial rabbi of the Rayim Ahuvim synagogue of Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York. He was the only wearer of a Shtrimel in the schul, and was widely respected for his torah knowledge.
  • ** Rebbe Yehoshua Horowitz of Dzhikov, son of Rebbe Meir
  • *** Rebbe Alter Yechezkel Eliyahu Horowitz of Dzhikov, son of Rebbe Yehoshua and son-in-law of his uncle, Rebbe Yisroel Hager of Vizhnitz, whose wife was Rebbe Meir Horowitz's daughter
  • **** Rebbe Chaim Menachem David Horowitz of Dzhikov, son of Rebbe Alter. Last rabbi of Tarnobrzeg.
  • **** Rebbe Meir Horowitz, son of Rebbe Alter
  • ***** Rebbe Yehoshua Horowitz, Dzhikover Rebbe of New York, son of Rebbe Meir
  • **** Rebbe Yehuda Horowitz of Dzhikov, Jerusalem and London, son of Rebbe Alter
  • ** Rebbe Tovia Horowitz of Madin, son of Rebbe Meir. He married the daughter of Rebbe David Spira of Dinov, of the Dinov dynasty. He was the rabbi of Madin.
  • *** Rebbe Bentzion Horowitz of Madin, son of Rebbe Tovia. Orphaned at a young age, he was raised by his uncle, Rebbe Yehoshua of Dzhikov. He married Golda Leah, daughter of Rebbe Pinchas Rabinowitz of Kintzk of the Pshischa dynasty. He succeeded his father as the rabbi of Madin, perhaps as early as 1899. During World War I, he lived in Vienna with his son, Rebbe Tovia of Sunik. He died during the Holocaust in a hospital in Rzeszów in .
  • **** Rebbe Tovia Horowitz of Sunik , son of Rebbe Bentzion. He married the daughter of his cousin, Rebbe Yehoshua Spira of Ribotitsh of the Dinov dynasty, whose grandfather was Rebbe David of Dinov. He was an active member of the Agudath Israel movement, and one of the founders of the Bais Yaakov movement of Orthodox girls' education, started by Sarah Schenirer.
  • ** Rebbe Yechiel Horowitz of Pokshivnitz, son of Rebbe Meir and son-in-law of Rebbe David Halberstam of Kshanov of the Sanz dynasty. He was the rabbi of Pokshivnitz, directly across the Vistula from Dzhikov. He was later expelled as an Austria-Hungarian national by the government of Congress Poland and he settled in Tarnów.
  • ** Rebbe Aharon Horowitz of Beitsh, son of Rebbe Meir and son-in-law of Rebbe Chaim Halberstam of Sanz
  • *** Rebbe Alter Eliezer Horowitz of Beitsh, son of Rebbe Aharon and son-in-law of Rebbe Moshe Leib Spira of Strizhov of the Dinov dynasty.
  • **** Rebbe Chaim Shlomo Horowitz, Strizhover Rebbe of New York. Before the Holocaust, he was the rabbi of Zalizha.
  • ** Rebbe Asher Horowitz of Rimanov , son of Rebbe Meir. He was orphaned as a child and was raised by his brother Rebbe Yehoshua of Dzhikov. In his first marriage, he married Malka, daughter of Rebbe Yosef Friedman, rebbe of Rimanov of the Rimanov dynasty, and was a rabbi there. Later he lived in Kraków.
  • *** Rebbe Tzvi Chaim Horowitz of Rimanov, son of Rebbe Asher. He married Sarah, daughter of his uncle, Rebbe Yisrael Hager of Vizhnitz. He became the rabbi of Rimanov after World War I, when his father settled in Kraków, and succeeded the latter and his maternal grandfather as the rebbe of Rimanov in 1935. His health was frail. He fell ill in 1937, and died two years later. In 1966, he was reinterred in the ohel of his father-in-law in Bnei Brak.
  • **** Rebbe Moshe Eliezer Horowitz of Rimanov, son of Rebbe Tzvi Chaim and the last Rebbe of Rimanov. He married Chaya Hinda, daughter of his relative Rebbe Naftali Horowitz of Melitz. He succeeded his father first as the rabbi of Rimanov in 1935 and later as rebbe after his father's death in 1939. After escaping the Holocaust for some time in Grosswardein, he and his family were deported to Auschwitz and murdered in.
  • **** Rebbe Chaim Yaakov Frankel, great-grandson of Rebbe Tzvi Chaim, one of several contemporary Rimanover rebbes. His wife is the daughter of the Komarner Rebbe of Jerusalem.
  • * Rabbi Yisrael Horowitz of Baranov, son of Rebbe Eliezer. In his first marriage he married Yocheved, daughter of Rebbe David Hager of Zablotov of the Kosov dynasty. Later he married his cousin Beila, daughter of his uncle Rebbe Avraham Chaim Horowitz, the rebbe of Linsk. He was the first rabbi of Baranov, and refused to officiate as a rebbe.
  • **Rebbe Avraham Simcha Horowitz of Baranov, son of Rebbe Yisrael. In 1909, after about forty years of being the rabbi — as his father's successor — and rebbe of Baranov, he left Poland and settled in Jerusalem, where he had a synagogue.
  • * Rebbe Reuven Horowitz of Dembitz, son of Rebbe Eliezer. Rabbi and rebbe of Dębica. He had no children with his first wife, daughter of his cousin, Rebbe Menashe Rubin of Ropshitz. His second wife was the daughter of a son of Rabbi Isser, the rabbi of Rozvadov. After her death, he married her wealthy uncle's adoptive daughter, with whom he had his other children.
  • ** Rebbe Alter Yeshaya Horowitz of Dembitz, son of Rebbe Reuven. He succeeded his father as the rabbi and rebbe of Dembitz. He had no children.
  • ** Rebbe Shmuel Horowitz of Dembitz, son of Rebbe Reuven. He married the daughter of Rabbi Yechiel Wagschal, the rabbi of Frysztak, a descendant of Rebbe Elimelech of Lizhensk. He succeeded his brother Rebbe Alter's positions in Dembitz.
  • * Rebbe Moshe Horowitz of Rozvadov, son of Rebbe Eliezer and son-in-law of Rebbe Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum
  • ** Rebbe Tzvi Hersh Horowitz of Rozvadov, son of Rebbe Moshe
  • ** Rebbe Avraham Chaim Horowitz of Plontsh, son of Rebbe Moshe
  • ** Rebbe Yitzchak Horowitz of Szczucin and Tarnów, son of Rebbe Moshe
  • *** Rebbe Yehuda Horowitz of Stitshin and later the Stitshiner Rav in Brooklyn, son of Rebbe Yitzchak and son-in-law of Rebbe Yehoshua Spira of Rybotycze of the Dinov dynasty.
  • ****Rebbe Eliezer Yehoshua Yudkovsky, grandson of Rebbe Yehuda, current Stitshiner ''Rov''