Person · 5594–5654 AM · 1834 CE — 1894 CE
Rabbi Mordechai Shraga Friedman of Husyatin רבי מרדכי שרגא פרידמן מהוסיאטין
the youngest son of the Ruzhiner; founder of the Husyatin court
The youngest son of the Ruzhiner; he was sixteen when the father died. He settled in Husyatin, a Galician townlet on the Zbruch: across the river lay Russia, from which the father had fled.
The court. The Ruzhiner had six sons; the courts that lasted are Sadigura, Shtefanesht, Chortkov and Husyatin, and out of Sadigura later grew Boyan. The Husyatin court kept the father’s manner: silence, dignity, few words. He led it for about thirty years.
He died in 1894; the court was taken by his son, Rabbi Yisrael.
On the timeline
Related
Sources
Acharonim and later rabbinic literature
- The chronicles of the house of Ruzhin — the six sons and the six courts
Scholarship
- Reference works on the chasidic courts of Galicia — the dates
Basis: documents and evidence.