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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Rav Zev Nachum Bornstein's firstborn, he came into the world at Bedzin, Poland, in 1838.
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