Person · 5607–5665 AM · 1847 CE — 1905 CE
Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov רבי שלמה הלברשטאם מבאבוב
the grandson of the Divrei Chaim; founder of the Bobov court
The grandson of Rabbi Chaim of Sanz; he grew up with his grandfather and studied under him. He served as rabbi in several Galician towns, and in 1893 settled in Bobov.
A yeshiva at the court. He did what chasidic courts of the time almost never did: he set up a real yeshiva at the court, with a timetable and teachers, and called young men to it from all Galicia. The argument was the one the Rashab would use later in Lubavitch: without a school a court will not outlive a generation.
He died on 1 Tammuz 1905. His son took the court.
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Acharonim and later rabbinic literature
- The Bobov tradition on the founding of the court and the yeshiva, 1893 — the yeshiva at the court as a deliberate plan
Scholarship
- Reference works on the chasidic courts of western Galicia — the dates and the seat of the court
Basis: documents and evidence.