Rabbi Moshe Biderman of Lelov רבי משה בידרמן מלעלוב
the second rebbe of Lelov; son-in-law of the Yid ha-Kadosh; brought the court to Jerusalem
He married a daughter of the Yid ha-Kadosh of Pshischa and bound Pshischa to Lelov for good: his father, Rabbi David, had been the Yid’s friend, he himself was his son-in-law and disciple. He took the court after his father’s death in 1814.
Aliyah. He spoke of the Land of Israel all his life, and in 1850, at seventy-four, he set out with his whole family and part of his chasidim—a rarity for a Polish rebbe of that day. The journey took months.
Jerusalem. He arrived. The Lelov tradition tells that he was not able to reach the Western Wall: he fell ill and took to his bed. He died on 13 Tevet 5611 (December 1850)—by the count of the Lelov chasidim, seventy-two days after he set foot on the Land; he is buried on the Mount of Olives. The court stayed in Jerusalem: it was taken by his son, Rabbi Elazar Menachem Mendel.
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Acharonim and later rabbinic literature
- The traditions of the house of Lelov — the aliyah, the seventy-two days, the Western Wall
Documents of the period
- The chronicles of the Old Yishuv of Jerusalem — the death on 13 Tevet 5611 and the burial on the Mount of Olives
Scholarship
- Reference works on the chasidic courts of Poland — the dates; son-in-law of the Yid ha-Kadosh
Basis: documents and evidence.