Person · 5672–5748 AM · 1912 CE — 1988 CE
Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Weiss of Spinka רבי יעקב יוסף ווייס מספינקא
grandson of the Chakal Yitzchak; he gathered the Spinka court after the Shoah
Son of Rabbi Yisrael Chaim and grandson of the Chakal Yitzchak. The year of his birth is given two ways—1912 and 1916.
After the war he gathered the surviving Spinka chasidim: first in Brooklyn, then in Bnei Brak. His book is the Siach Yaakov Yosef.
He died on 19 Nisan 1988, during the intermediate days of Passover, and is buried in Petach Tikva, in the Spinka section.
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Documents of the period
- Records of the burial in the Spinka section in Petach Tikva — 19 Nisan 1988 and the place of burial
Scholarship
- The register of the Spinka house — both readings of the year of birth and the restoration of the court after the war
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