Zvhil is the name of a Hasidic

Hasidic Judaism

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 dynasty which originated with Rabbi Moshe of Zvhil, the son of Rabbi Yechiel Michl, the Magid

Maggid

Maggid , sometimes spelled as magid, is a traditional Eastern European Jewish religious itinerant preacher, skilled as a narrator of Torah and religious stories. A preacher of the more scholarly sort was called a "darshan", and usually occupied the official position of rabbi...

 (Preacher) of Zlotshev. He was also the grandson of Rabbi Yitzchok of Drubitsh and Rabbi Aharon of Karlin. As in several inter-related Hasidic dynasties, family tradition held that Rabbi Moshe was a descendant of King David.

Rabbi Moshe died in 1831 and was succeeded by his son Rabbi Yechiel Michl Goldman of Zvhil. The last rebbe to reside in Zvhil

Novohrad-Volynskyi

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 was Grand Rabbi Yaakov Yisroel. Rabbi Yaakov Yisroel was also the Tsar

Tsar

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-appointed Chief Rabbi of the Ukraine

Ukraine

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.

The town of Zvhil is located in Volhynia

Volhynia

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, in present-day Ukraine. Today it is known as Novohrad-Volynskyi

Novohrad-Volynskyi

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. The Jewish version of the name, Zvhil, instead of Zvyahel can be attributed to the similarity between Zvhil and Zvul (one of the holy names for the ancient Jewish Temple

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 in Hebrew, pronounced 'Zvil' by Ukrainian Jews).

Today, there are three Zvhiller Rebbes, who are cousins. One is the Zvhil-Mezhbizh

Mezhbizh (Hasidic dynasty)

Mezhbizh is the name of the town of Medzhybizh in the present Ukraine which is significant as both the source of a Hasidic dynasty that bears its name and as a symbolic name for the roots of Hasidism.The Mezhbizh dynasty served as the earliest "trunk" of...

 Rebbe of Boston, MA, Grand Rabbi Yitzhak Aharon Korff, grandson of Grand Rabbi Yaakov Yisroel who was a son-in-law of Reb Yechiel Michl the Second. The other two, Rabbi Avraham Goldman in Jerusalem (d. 2009) and Rabbi Shlomo Goldman

Shlomo Goldman

Shlomo Goldman, also known as the Zvhil-Sanzer rebbe, is the Sanz-Klausenburger Grand Rabbi of Union City, New Jersey, where he resides and is rav of the Sanz-Klausenberger community there....

 in Union City, New Jersey

Union City, New Jersey

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, are descended from Reb Yechiel Michel the Second's younger brother, Reb Shlomke of Zvhil.

Lineage

• Rabbi Isaac of Drubitsh (d. 1752)
  • Rabbi Yechiel Michl, the Maggid
    Maggid
    Maggid , sometimes spelled as magid, is a traditional Eastern European Jewish religious itinerant preacher, skilled as a narrator of Torah and religious stories. A preacher of the more scholarly sort was called a "darshan", and usually occupied the official position of rabbi...
    
     of Zlotshev (1726-1781), son of Rabbi Isaac. A disciple of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidism.
    • Rebbe Moshe of Zvhil (d. 1831), son of the Maggid of Zlotshev.
      • Rebbe Yechiel Michl Goldman of Zvhil (1788-1856), son of Rebbe Moshe.
        • Rabbi Mordechai Goldman of Zvhil (d. 1900), son of Rabbi Yechiel Michel.
          • Rabbi Yechiel Michl of Zvhil (d. 1917), elder son of Rabbi Mordechai.
            • Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael of Zvhil-Mezhbizh in Boston, son of Rabbi Mordechai of Mezhbizh, son-in-law of Rabbi Yechiel Michel of Zvhil.
              • Rabbi Dr. Yitzhak Aharon Korff of Zvhil-Mezhbizh, grandson of Rabbi Yaakov Yisroel, son-in-law of the Shomer Emunim Rebbe, Grand Rabbi Avrohom Chayim Roth of Jerusalem and Bnei Brak (son of Reb Areleh). Chaplain of the city of Boston
                Boston
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                .
          • Rabbi Shlomo "Shlomke" Goldman of Zvhil-Jerusalem (d. 1945), younger son of Rabbi Mordechai.
            • Rabbi Gedalia Moshe Goldman of Zvhil-Jerusalem (d. 1950), son of Rabbi Shlomo.
              • Rabbi Mordechai Goldman (II) of Zvhil (1910-1981), son of Rabbi Gedalia Moshe
                • Rabbi Avraham Goldman of Zvhil-Jerusalem (1933-2009), son of Rabbi Mordechai
                • Rabbi Shlomo Goldman
                  Shlomo Goldman
                  Shlomo Goldman, also known as the Zvhil-Sanzer rebbe, is the Sanz-Klausenburger Grand Rabbi of Union City, New Jersey, where he resides and is rav of the Sanz-Klausenberger community there....
                  
                  , present Zvhiller Rebbe of Union City, NJ, son of Rabbi Mordechai, son-in-law of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam
                  Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam
                  Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam was an Orthodox rabbi and the founding rebbe of the Sanz-Klausenburg Hasidic dynasty....
                  
                   of Klausenberg
              • Rabbi Elozor Adler, Zvhiller Rebbe of Los Angeles (b. 1921) – son of R' Yosef Yehoshua Aharon of Lelov, married to R' Shlomke's granddaughter.