Person · 5688–5773 AM · 1928 CE — 2013 CE
Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Friedman the Third of Sadigura רבי אברהם יעקב פרידמן השלישי מסאדיגורה
the sixth rebbe of Sadigura; moved the court to Bnei Brak
He took the court after the death of his father, the Knesses Mordechai, in 1979. Born in Vienna in 1928, he came with his father to Eretz Yisrael as a boy.
Bnei Brak. Tel Aviv had by then emptied of chasidim, and he moved the Sadigura court to Bnei Brak; its beit midrash and yeshiva stand there. Like his father he sat on the Council of Torah Sages.
He died in 2013; the court was taken by his son, Rabbi Yisrael Moshe.
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Places
Related
Knesses Mordechai—Rabbi Mordechai Shalom Yosef Friedman of SadiguraRabbi Yisrael Moshe Friedman of SadiguraAgudath Israel
Sources
Acharonim and later rabbinic literature
- The chronicles of the house of Ruzhin — the move to Bnei Brak
Scholarship
- Reference works on the chasidic courts of Israel — the dates
Basis: documents and evidence.