Grodzhisk (Hasidic dynasty)
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Grodzhisk is the name of a Hasidic
dynasty founded by Rebbe Elimelech Szapira
, author of Imrei Elimelech.
Grodzhisk is the Yiddish
name of Grodzisk Mazowiecki
, a town in present-day Poland
.
Hasidic Judaism
Hasidic Judaism or Hasidism, from the Hebrew —Ḥasidut in Sephardi, Chasidus in Ashkenazi, meaning "piety" , is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that promotes spirituality and joy through the popularisation and internalisation of Jewish mysticism as the fundamental aspects of the Jewish faith...
dynasty founded by Rebbe Elimelech Szapira
Elimelech Szapira
Rabbi Elimelech Szapira of Grodzhisk was the leading Hasidic rebbe of his time in Poland. He was a chosid of the Rizhiner Rebbe...
, author of Imrei Elimelech.
Grodzhisk is the Yiddish
Yiddish language
Yiddish is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages...
name of Grodzisk Mazowiecki
Grodzisk Mazowiecki
Grodzisk Mazowiecki is a town in central Poland with 26,881 inhabitants in 2006. It is 30 km. southwest of Warsaw.Between 1975 and 1998 it was situated in the Warszawa Voivodeship but since 1999 it has been situated in the Masovian Voivodeship. It is the capital of Grodzisk Mazowiecki...
, a town in present-day Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
.
Lineage
- Rabbi Elimelech SzapiraElimelech SzapiraRabbi Elimelech Szapira of Grodzhisk was the leading Hasidic rebbe of his time in Poland. He was a chosid of the Rizhiner Rebbe...
of Grodzhisk (b. 1823, d. 29 March 1892).- Rabbi Yisroel Szapira. son of Rabbi Elimelech Szapira.
- Rabbi Chayim Myer Yechiel Szapira, son of Rabbi Elimelech Szapira.
- Rabbi Yisroel ShapiraYisroel ShapiraRabbi Yisroel Szapira of Grodzhisk was a Hasidic rebbe in Poland. His father, Chayim Meir Yechiel, was the son of the Grodzhisk Rebbe, Elimelech Szapira...
(killed at Treblinka, 1942), son of Rabbi Chayim Myer Yechiel.- Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Szapira (d. Dec. 6, 1966), son of Rabbi Yisroel Shapira.
- Rabbi Yisroel Shapira
- Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira of PiasecznoPiasecznoPiaseczno is a town in central Poland with 32,610 inhabitants .It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship, approximately 16 kilometers south of Warsaw. It is a popular residential area and a suburb of Warsaw and is strongly linked to the capital, both economically and culturally...
(b. 1889, killed at TrawnikiTrawnikiTrawniki is a village in Świdnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Trawniki. It lies approximately south-east of Świdnik and south-east of the regional capital Lublin....
, November 3, 1943), son of Rabbi Elimelech Szapira. - Rabbi Isaiah, son of Rabbi Elimelech Szapira.
- Rabbi Elimelech, son of Rabbi Isaiah.
- Rabbi Kalman Menachem, son of Rabbi Elimelech - current PiasecznoPiasecznoPiaseczno is a town in central Poland with 32,610 inhabitants .It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship, approximately 16 kilometers south of Warsaw. It is a popular residential area and a suburb of Warsaw and is strongly linked to the capital, both economically and culturally...
-Grodzhisk Rebbe in Ramat Beit Shemesh
- Rabbi Kalman Menachem, son of Rabbi Elimelech - current Piaseczno
- Rabbi Elimelech, son of Rabbi Isaiah.