Grand Rabbi Naftali Asher Yeshayahu Moscowitz is the Melitzer Rebbe of Ashdod, Israel

Israel

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 and author of the Peiros Hailan halachic discourses on the laws of Chol HaMoed

Chol HaMoed

Chol HaMoed, a Hebrew phrase meaning "weekdays [of] the festival" , refers to the intermediate days of Passover and Sukkot. During Chol HaMoed the usual restrictions that apply to the Biblical Jewish holidays are relaxed, but not entirely eliminated...

and the Nefesh Chaya a commentary and linear interpretation of the Book of Psalms.

The Melitzer Rebbe is the grandson of the Shatzer

Shotz (Hasidic dynasty)

Shotz is a Hasidic dynasty originating in the city of Suceava, Romania .- Lineage of the Shotz dynasty :* Rabbi Yisroel "Baal Shem Tov", founder of Hasidism** Rabbi Yechiel Michl, the maggid of Zlotshev, a student of Rabbi Yisroel....

 Rebbe of London

London

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, and a seventh generation patrilineal

Patrilineality

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 descendent of Rebbe Yechiel Michal of Zolochiv

Zolochiv

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. His saintly grandfathers also include the Baal Shem Tov, The Degel Machane Ephraim

Moshe Chaim Ephraim of Sudilkov

Rabbi Moshe Chaim Ephraim of Sudilkov was born in Medzhybizh, Poland 1748 and died there on the 17th of Iyar in 1800. He was best known as the Baal Shem Tov's grandson and for the work Degel Machaneh Ephraim, first published in Korets, 1810.-His life:...

, The Noam Elimelech

Elimelech of Lizhensk

Elimelech Weisblum of Lizhensk , a Rabbi and one of the great founding Rebbes of the Hasidic movement, was known after his hometown, Leżajsk near Rzeszów in Poland...

, Rebbe Meir of Premishlan, Rebbe Naftali of Ropshitz, and other well known tzaddikim.

Grand Rabbi Moscowitz is married to Mrs. Shaindel Kahana Stern of London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, daughter of an understudy of the Shotzer Rov of London, the Melitzer rebbe's grandfather.