Avraham Bornstein of Sochatchov
Also known as The Avnei Nezer
1838 CE–1910 CE · Acharonim · Bedzin
R. Avraham Bornstein of Sochatchov (1838-1910), the Avnei Nezer, was a rare bridge between two opposite Jewish temperaments. As son-in-law of the famously severe Kotzker Rebbe he absorbed Hasidism's white-hot intensity, yet as a devoted student of R. Hanokh Henoch of Aleksander he also mastered the cool, surgical logic of the Lithuanian study hall, fusing both in his work. The founding Rebbe of the Sochatchov Hasidic dynasty, he is remembered for two classics: his Avnei Nezer, a multi-volume collection of his answers to questions of Jewish law, and Eglei Tal on the 39 categories of labor forbidden on the Sabbath (the melachot of Shabbos). His son R. Shmuel Bornsztain (the Shem MiShmuel) succeeded him.
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Bedzin
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Rav Zev Nachum Bornstein's firstborn, he came into the world at Bedzin, Poland, in 1838.
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- R. Yaakov Saul Eliashar· 1817 CE–1906 CE
- Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin· 1823 CE–1900 CE
- Yechiel Michel Epstein· 1829 CE–1908 CE
- Rabbi Naftali Amsterdam· 1832 CE–1916 CE
- Rabbi Chaim Hezekiah Medini· 1832 CE–1904 CE
- R. Shalom Mordechai Schwadron (Maharsham of Berezhany)· 1835 CE–1911 CE
- Yosef Hayyim· 1835 CE–1909 CE
- Rabbi Yitzchak Blazer· 1837 CE–1907 CE
- R. Yitzchak Eizik Weiss of Spinka· 1838 CE–1909 CE
- Israel Meir Kagan (Chafetz Chaim)· 1838 CE–1933 CE
- Gershon Chanokh Leiner of Radzin· 1839 CE–1891 CE
- Rabbi Eliezer Gordon· 1841 CE–1910 CE
- Rabbi Shlomo Elyashiv· 1841 CE–1926 CE
- Rabbi Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim· 1843 CE–1905 CE
- Rabbi Dovid Tzvi Hoffman· 1843 CE–1921 CE
- Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk (Or Sameach, Meshech Chochmah)· 1843 CE–1926 CE
- Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky· 1845 CE–1913 CE
- Shlomo Halberstam (founder of Bobov)· 1847 CE–1905 CE
- Solomon Schechter (Cairo Genizah; JTS)· 1847 CE–1915 CE
- Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horowitz· 1847 CE–1919 CE
- R. Yisrael Taub (Modzitz founder)· 1849 CE–1920 CE
- R. Tzvi Hirsch Shapira (Munkacs II)· 1850 CE–1913 CE
- Yitzchak Friedman (Pachad Yitzchak of Boyan)· 1850 CE–1917 CE
- Chaim Soloveitchik (founder of the Brisker derech)· 1853 CE–1918 CE
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Rulers world
- José Martí· 1853 CE–1895 CE
- Franz Joseph I· 1830 CE–1916 CE
- Ito Hirobumi· 1841 CE–1909 CE
- Béhanzin· 1844 CE–1906 CE
- Porfirio Díaz· 1830 CE–1915 CE
- Grover Cleveland· 1837 CE–1908 CE
- Edward VII· 1841 CE–1910 CE
- Chief Joseph (Hinmatóowyalahtqʼit)· 1840 CE–1904 CE
- Murad V· 1840 CE–1904 CE
- William McKinley· 1843 CE–1901 CE
- Empress Dowager Cixi· 1835 CE–1908 CE
- Quanah Parker· 1845 CE–1911 CE
- Menelik II· 1844 CE–1913 CE
- Alexander III· 1845 CE–1894 CE
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