Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov, the Third רבי שלמה הלברשטאם מבאבוב השלישי
the third rebbe of Bobov; rebuilt the court in Brooklyn after the Shoah
Under his father, Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam, he ran the Bobov yeshiva; in the war he passed through the Bochnia ghetto and flight to Hungary, losing his wife and children; his father was murdered in Lvov in 1941.
Brooklyn. In 1946 he came to New York. A few dozen Bobov chasidim had survived; he began with them—with a yeshiva on the West Side, then in Crown Heights, then in Boro Park. Half a century later Bobov was one of the most populous courts in America, and a court known for gentleness: the rebbe fought with no one.
Custom. He kept the Bobov melody, the Bobov Purim play and the whole of his father’s way; the court in Brooklyn was a continuation, not a new beginning.
He died on 1 Av 5760 (2000); the court was taken by his son, Rabbi Naftali.
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Acharonim and later rabbinic literature
- The traditions of the Bobov court — the war and the rebuilding
Scholarship
- Reference works on the chasidic courts of America — the dates
Basis: documents and evidence.