Sanz (Hasidic dynasty)
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The Sanz Hasidic dynasty was founded by Rabbi Chaim Halberstam (1793-1876) Rabbi of Nowy Sącz (Sanz, Yiddish: צאנז Tsanz), author of Divrei Chaim and a son-in-law of Rabbi Boruch Frankel Thumim (1760-1828), Rabbi of Lipník nad Bečvou (לייפניק Leipnik), author of Boruch Taam.

Founder of dynasty

The Divrei Chaim was a disciple of Rabbi Naftali of Ropshitz, who was a disciple of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk, a disciple of the Maggid of Mezritch, the leading disciple of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism.

The Divrei Chaim had fourteen children; his seven sons were: Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam (1814-1898) of Shinive; Rabbi Duvid Halberstam (1821-1894) of Chrzanów; Rabbi Myer Nosson Halberstam (1827-1855), father of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam, the first Bobover Rebbe; Rabbi Boruch Halberstam (1829-1906) of Gorlice (גארליץ Gorlitz); Rabbi Aharon Halberstam, his successor in Nowy Sącz; Rabbi Shulem Lazer Halberstam of Ratzfert (1862-1944), who was murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust; Rabbi Yeshaye Halberstam of Czchów (טשחויווTshkhoiv) (1864-1944), who was also murdered by the Nazis; and seven daughters; among them a daughter Reitza who married Rabbi Mordecai Dov Twerski, the Admor of Hornsteipl.

Offshoots

Bobov

Main article: Bobov (Hasidic dynasty)

• Grand Rabbi Chaim Halberstam (1793–1876), of Sanz.
  • Rabbi Mayer Noson Halberstam (1827–1855).
    • Grand Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam (1847–1905), First Bobover Rebbe author of Ateres Shlomo.
      • Grand Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam (1874–1941), Second Bobover Rebbe author of Kedushas Tzion.
        • Grand Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam (1907–2000), Third Bobover Rebbe.
          • Grand Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Halberstam (1931–2005) Fourth Bobover Rebbe.
            • Grand Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger (born 1954) present Bobover Rebbe ****** Grand Rabbi Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam (born 1955) present Bobover Ruv

Sanz-Gribov

• Grand Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz
  • Rabbi Aaron Halberstam, zt”l (1826-1903), Sanzer Rav; son of Rabbi Chaim
    • Rabbi Arye Leibish Halberstam, zt”l (1852-1935), Sanzer Rav; son of Rabbi Aaron
      • Rabbi Mordechai Zev Halberstam, zt”l hy”d (1882-1942), Sanzer Rav; son of Rabbi Aryeh Leibish
        • Rabbi Boruch Halberstam, zt”l hy”d (1903-1942), Gribover Rav; son of Rabbi Mordechai Zev
          • Rabbi Naftali Halberstam, Sanz-Gribover Rebbe in Boro Park, son of Rabbi Boruch

The following dynasties stem from Rabbi Boruch Halberstam, the Gorlitser Rov:

Sanz-Gorlitz

• Grand Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz
  • Grand Rabbi Boruch Halberstam ABD Gorlitz
    • Grand Rabbi Elisha Halberstam (1860-1941)—died in Siberia
      • Grand Rabbi Boruch Halberstam (died 1982) of Gorlitz-Bnei Brak, son-in-law of Rabbi Yisochor Shlomo Teichtal of Pishtian, Eim Habonim S'meicho

Sanz-Klausenburg

Main article: Klausenberg (Hasidic dynasty)

• Grand Rabbi Chaim Halberstam (1793–1876) of Sanz.
  • Grand Rabbi Baruch Halberstam (1829-1906) of Gorlitz.
    • Grand Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Halberstam (1851-1918), of Ridnik.
      • Grand Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam (1904-1994), the First Sanz Klausenberger Rebbe.
        • Grand Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Halberstam, Present Sanzer Rebbe in Kiryat Sanz, Netanya, Israel.
        • Grand Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Halberstam, Present Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

Sanz-Zhmigrod

• Grand Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz
  • Grand Rabbi Baruch Halberstam of Gorlitz
    • Grand Rabbi Sinai Halberstam (1870-1941), the first Zhmigroder Rebbe, a son of Rabbi Boruch of Gorlitz; died in the Omsk forest, Siberia.
      • Grand Rabbi Yaakov Halberstam (1902-1967), the Tshokaver Rebbe, son-in-law of the Shatzer Rebbe
      • Grand Rabbi Aryeh Leibish Halberstam (1909-2007), the second Zhmigroder Rebbe, son-in-law of the Stretiner Rebbe, Grand Rabbi Yehuda Tsvi Brandwein
        • Grand Rabbi Sinai Halberstam, Zhmigroder Rebbe of America
        • Grand Rabbi Yehosua Halberstam, Zhmigroder Rebbe, of Antwerp
        • Grand Rabbi Chaim Halberstam, Zhmigroder Rebbe, of Bnei Brak

The Grand Rabbi of Sanz-Zhmigrod, Rabbi Aryeh Leibish Halberstam, author of Arye Sho'ag, died on 7 January 2007¹ in Netanya's Laniado hospital, which is run by Sanz-Klausenburg. In his youth he studied under the Tshebiner Rov and Rabbi Meir Shapiro. During World War II had to leave Zhmigrid for Kraków, then Lviv and eventually Siberia. He served as a rebbe in Petah Tikva, where he found the Divrei Chaim Synagogue, Yafo and Bnei Brak. For a short period in 1950 he lived in Antwerp.

A scion of Sanz-Tshokave, the halachic authority Rabbi Moshe Halberstam of the Edah HaChareidis, died in 2006.

Books of the Sanz movement

The main Hasidic works revered by the Sanz Dynasty are Divrei Chaim, by Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Tsanz and Divrei Yechezkel by his son, Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam

See also

• Klausenberg (Hasidic dynasty)
• Bobov (Hasidic dynasty)

The previous Sanz-Klausenberg Rebbe founded Laniado Hospital in Netanya.

References

External links

• http://sanzusa.com/ - The official Sanz-Klausenburg website (in Hebrew). Contains pictures and video of the movement.