Klausenburg (Hasidic dynasty)

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Klausenburg Hasidic Dynasty
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The Sanz-Klausenburg Logo
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Founder of the dynasty, the Rebbe the Shefa Chaim
Founder
Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam
Regions with significant populations
Israel, United States, Canada, England, Europe, Australia
Religions
Hasidic Judaism

Klausenburg, also known as Sanz-Klausenburg, is a Hasidic dynasty that originated in the Transylvanian city of Cluj-Napoca ( ‹See Tfd› German : Klausenburg, Hungarian : Kolozsvár), today in Romania.

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At the behest of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, Klausenburger Rebbe from 1927 to 1994, the movement was split into two separate movements after his death, headed by his two sons. The Sanz-Klausenburger Hasidim are located in Borough Park, New York City, while the Sanzer Hasidim are based in Kiryat Sanz, Netanya, Israel. There are also followings in Los Angeles, California; Jerusalem; Stamford Hill, London; Antwerp; and Union City, New Jersey, and in the US, in Borough Park, Williamsburg, Monsey, and Lakewood.

Sanz-Klausenburg rabbinical lineage

The Klausenburger Rebbes are descended from Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz, who was a disciple of Rabbi Naftoli Tzvi of Ropshitz. Rabbi Naftoli was a disciple of Rebbe Elimelech of Lizhensk author of Noam Elimelech. Rebbe Elimelech was a disciple of Rebbe Dovber, the Maggid (Preacher) of Mezritch, the primary disciple of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism.

Grand Rabbi
Chaim Halberstam of Sanz

(1793–1876)
author of Divrei Chaim
Grand Rabbi
Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam

(1905-1994)
First Klausenburger Rebbe
author of Shefa Chayim and Divrei Yatsiv
Grand Rabbi
Boruch Halberstam of Gorlitz

(1829-1906)
Grand Rabbi
Zvi Elimelech Halberstam

Sanz-Klausenburger Rebbe
of Kiryat Sanz, Netanya, Israel
Grand Rabbi
Shmuel Dovid Halberstam

Sanz-Klausenburger Rebbe
of Borough Park, Brooklyn
Rabbi
Tzvi Hirsh Halberstam of Rudnik

(1851-1918)

History

The Klausenburger dynasty was founded by Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam in 1927, when he assumed the position of rabbi of Klausenburg, the capital city of Transylvania in western Romania. Halberstam was the great-grandson of Rabbi Chaim of Sanz, founder of the Sanz Hasidic dynasty.

Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam grew up in Rudnik, Poland.

In the Holocaust about 85% of the community was murdered, including Halberstam's wife and eleven children. He emerged as a leader in the displaced persons camps in Europe as he created a communal survivors organization called She'aris Hapleitah ("the surviving remnant"), which operated religious schools for boys and girls and yeshivas for young men in 19 different DP camps, as well as religious services.

In 1947, he emigrated to America and established his court in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.

In 1957 he established the Kiryat Sanz neighborhood in the beachside city of Netanya, Israel. He moved to Kiryat Sanz in 1960. In 1968, he founded yet another Sanz community in Union City, New Jersey, and afterwards divided his time between that community and his residence in Netanya.

Halberstam died on June 18, 1994, and was buried in Netanya. In his will, he divided leadership of the Klausenburger Hasidim between his two sons (both born in his second marriage after World War II). His elder son, Zvi Elimelech Halberstam, became the Sanz-Klausenburger Rebbe (also called Sanzer Rebbe) of Netanya, and Shmuel Dovid Halberstam became the Sanz-Klausenburger Rebbe of Brooklyn.

Leadership

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Bnos Sanz, Union City

The Rebbe's sons-in-law are:

In contrast to the custom among many Rebbes, the Klausenburger Rebbe did not take sons-in-law exclusively from rabbinic families; rather, he chose the best students of his yeshiva to marry his daughters. The only exception was Rabbi Shlomo Goldman, an accomplished Torah scholar even in his youth, who is the son of the previous Zhviller Rebbe in Israel.

Other prominent figures in Sanz-Klausenburg are:

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