Linsk (Hasidic dynasty)

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Linsk (Yiddish : לינסקLinsk) is the name of a Hasidic dynasty—a family of Hasidic leaders or rebbes and the group of their associated followers or chassidim—founded by Rabbi Avraham Chaim Horowitz of Linsk (c.1789 or c.1792  1831). Linsk is the Yiddish name of the town of Lesko in southern Poland.

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The Linsk dynasty is a branch of the Ropshitz dynasty. The Rabbi of the Linsk dynasty is known, among other things, for having worn a mask on his eyes while walking in Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport, in order to avoid seeing "indecent" women.

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Dynasty

Notes

  1. Vunder [5] gives another date, 1923 [as in ha-Ḥasidut mi-dor le-dor], which he retracts.
  2. Called Parnes in some sources
  3. Alternatively: daughter of Rebbe Naftali Tzvi Parnes and step-daughter of Rebbe Chaim Halberstam of Sanz. [6]
  4. Alfasi [8] and Vunder [9] have him as the son of his grandfather, Rebbe Avraham Chaim. Vunder later corrects this, citing family traditions. [10]
  5. Alfasi mentions him once [13] as "Yisrael David"; otherwise, and in other sources, he is called "Yisrael" only.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "שושלת רופשיץ" [The Ropshitz Dynasty]. ha-Ḥasidut mi-dor le-dor. Vol. 1. pp. 268–277.
  2. Meʼore Galitsyah. Vol. 2. p. 139.Entsiḳlopedyah la-Ḥasidut. Vol. 1. p. 78.
  3. ha-Ḥasidut mi-dor le-dor. Vol. 1. p. 268.
  4. Meʼore Galitsyah. Vol. 2. p. 136.Meʼore Galitsyah. Vol. 6. p. 456.
  5. 1 2 Meʼore Galitsyah. Vol. 2. p. 254.Meʼore Galitsyah. Vol. 6. p. 496.
  6. Meʼore Galitsyah. Vol. 6. p. 1038.
  7. Meʼore Galitsyah. Vol. 2. p. 264.
  8. ha-Ḥasidut mi-dor le-dor. p. 273.
  9. Meʼore Galitsyah. Vol. 2. p. 234.
  10. Meʼore Galitsyah. Vol. 6. p. 456.
  11. ha-Ḥasidut mi-dor le-dor. p. 273.Meʼore Galitsyah. Vol. 2. p. 234.
  12. Meʼore Galitsyah. Vol. 2. p. 234.Meʼore Galitsyah. Vol. 6. pp. 460–461, 1117.
  13. ha-Ḥasidut mi-dor le-dor. p. 268.
  14. Meʼore Galitsyah. Vol. 6. p. 495.
  15. Amsel, Baruch (1 December 2008). "Rebbe Naftali Tzvi Horowitz". Kevarim of Tzadikim in North America. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
  16. ha-Ḥasidut mi-dor le-dor. p. 327.

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