Person · 5602–5679 AM · 1842 CE — 1919 CE
Rabbi Moshe Halberstam of Shinova רבי משה הלברשטאם משינאווא
the second rebbe of Shinova; son of the Divrei Yechezkel
Son of Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam, the Divrei Yechezkel, and grandson of Rabbi Chaim of Sanz. After his father's death in 1898 he took the Shinova court.
Some years later he moved to Sanz and led the court from there, while still being called the Shinover rebbe. He died on 12 Cheshvan 1918.
His sons held the Shinova title further: Rabbi Aryeh Leibish Mordechai and Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda in Sanz, Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga in Shinova itself. The two younger ones perished in the Shoah.
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Documents of the period
- Municipal records of Jewish Sieniawa — that the son of the Divrei Yechezkel was a tsaddik in Sieniawa, and afterwards in Nowy Sacz
Scholarship
- The register of the Shinova house — the order of the Shinova rebbes after the Divrei Yechezkel, and the day of death, 12 Cheshvan 1918
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