Person · 5608–5678 AM · 1848 CE — 1918 CE
Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Leib Twersky of Trisk רבי יעקב אריה לייב טברסקי מטריסק
the second rebbe of Trisk; he moved the court to Kovel
The third son of Rabbi Avraham, the Maggid of Trisk. He was born in 1848.
He took the court after his father's death in 1889. About 1914 he moved it to Kovel, and to Trisk he came to pray at his father's grave. Two of his brothers became rebbes of their own, in Brisk and in Kuzmir.
He died on 28 Iyar 1918 in Hrubieszow, on the eve of the Sabbath. The cemetery there was destroyed, and where his grave is is not known.
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Documents of the period
- The register of the Volhynian courts' days of remembrance — 28 Iyar 1918, and that the cemetery was destroyed
Scholarship
- The register of the Trisk house — the birth year 1848, that he was the third son, and that he took his father's place
- The register of the Volhynian communities: Turiysk — the moving of the court to Kovel about 1914
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