Person · 5657–5739 AM · 1897 CE — 1979 CE
Knesses Mordechai—Rabbi Mordechai Shalom Yosef Friedman of Sadigura כנסת מרדכי — רבי מרדכי שלום יוסף פרידמן מסאדיגורה
the fifth rebbe of Sadigura; author of the Knesses Mordechai
His father, Rabbi Aharon, died when he was sixteen, and he—born in Sadigura in 1897—grew up with his uncle in Vienna. From there he went with his uncle to Eretz Yisrael.
Rebbe. He took the court after his uncle’s death in 1961 and led it in Tel Aviv until his own death. He sat on the Council of Torah Sages of Agudat Yisrael, and Ruzhin reserve was joined in him with a readiness to speak of the affairs of the country.
The book. His talks were published as the Knesses Mordechai. He died in 1979; the court was taken by his son, Rabbi Avraham Yaakov the Third.
On the timeline
5706 · 1946 CERebuilding after the War: DP Camps and New Yeshivot5708 · 1948 CEThe Declaration of the State of Israel
Places
Related
Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Friedman the Second of SadiguraRabbi Avraham Yaakov Friedman the Third of SadiguraAgudath Israel
Sources
Acharonim and later rabbinic literature
- Knesses Mordechai — his teaching
- The chronicles of the house of Ruzhin — the succession after the uncle
Scholarship
- Reference works on the chasidic courts of Israel — the dates; the Council of Torah Sages
Basis: documents and evidence.