Dushinsky (Hasidic dynasty)
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The Dushinsky Hasidic dynasty is one of the few not to be named for the place where it originated. Instead, it is the surname of their Rebbe. It is a relatively new dynasty, as are many of the dynasties originating in Hungary. However, the Dushinsky dynasty truly became a dynasty in Jerusalem, where it is centered today.
[edit] Outline of dynasty
- Grand Rabbi Yoseph Tzvi Dushinsky (1865-1948), son of Rabbi Yisrael Dushinsky
- Grand Rabbi Yisrael Moshe Dushinsky (1921-2003), son of Rabbi Yoseph Tzvi
- Grand Rabbi Yoseph Tzvi Dushinsky, present Dushinsky Rebbe of Jerusalem, son of Rabbi Yisrael Moshe
[edit] History
The first Rebbe of the Dushinsky dynasty was Grand Rabbi Yoseph Tzvi Dushinsky. Rabbi Dushinsky was a disciple of the author of Shevet Sofer, one of the grandchildren of the Chasam Sofer. Eventually, after his marriage to the daughter of Rabbi Mordechai Winkler, the author of Levushei Mordechai, Rabbi Dushinsky became the Chief Rabbi of the town of Galanta, Hungary. His wife died, childless, in an epidemic during the First World War. Rabbi Dushinsky remarried to Rebbetzin Esther, the daughter of Rabbi Yoel Tzvi Neuhaus. He soon moved to the town of Chust, where he had assumed the position of Chief Rabbi. In 1921, they had a son, Yisrael Moshe. In 1930, the Dushinsky family moved to the British Mandate of Palestine, settling in Jerusalem. Shortly thereafter came the death of the Chief Rabbi and founder of the Edah HaChareidis, Rabbi Yoseph Chaim Zonnenfeld, the Chief Rabbi of the Haredi community of Jerusalem. After his death, Rabbi Dushinsky was coronated as the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem by the Edah HaChareidis.
Rabbi Dushinsky was known for his strong opposition to Zionism, and spoke to the newly-formed United Nations against the creation of the Zionist State. Rabbi Dushinsky died on the fourteenth of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, the eve of the Jewish feast of Tabernacles, in 1948, shortly after the founding of that State. He was succeeded by Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis as Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem by the Edah HaChareidis. As the Grand Rabbi of the Dushinsky Hasidic sect he was succeeded by his son Rabbi Yisrael Moshe, who later also became the Chief Rabbi of the Edah HaChareidis. Rabbi Yisrael Moshe died in 2003 and was succeeded by Rabbi Yitzchok Tuviah Weiss as Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and by his son, Rabbi Yosef Tzvi, as the present Grand Rabbi Dushinsky.
A famous student of Rabbi Yisrael Moshe, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Ulman, is one of the members of the Rabbinical Court (Badatz) which leads the Edah HaChareidis.
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