Person · 5666–5759 AM · 1906 CE — 1999 CE
Rabbi Yochanan Twersky of Tolna רבי יוחנן טברסקי מטולנא
the fourth rebbe of Tolna; he moved the court to Jerusalem
He was born on 10 Elul 1906 in Tulchin; his father was Rabbi David Mordechai.
He was rebbe in Montreal, and after the Shoah went up to Erets Yisrael and set up the house of study of the Tolna chasidim in the Bayit VeGan quarter of Jerusalem.
His books are the Siach Yochanenu and the Ki Chaim Hem le-Motzeihem. He died on 25 Kislev 1998, on the first light of Chanukah.
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Acharonim and later rabbinic literature
- The Siach Yochanenu — the book by which he is known
Scholarship
- The register of the Tolna house — 10 Elul 1906, Montreal, and the house of study in Bayit VeGan
Basis: documents and evidence.