Third Bobover Rebbe

1908 CE–2000 CE · Modern · Bucharest

Third Bobover rebbe and Holocaust survivor, Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam reestablished and led the Bobov chasidic court in New York after the destruction of its European base. From his beis midrash in Boro Park he rebuilt extensive institutions for the Bobover chasidim in America, Israel, and Europe. His leadership combined communal guidance, yeshiva building, and outreach to a broad postwar chasidic constituency.

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Bobov (Bobowa)Galicia

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Born in 1908 in Bobov in the Galicia region of Poland as the eldest son of Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam, the second Bobover rebbe. Grew up within the Bobov court that his grandfather Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam had founded, in a milieu centered on chasidus and yeshiva education. This early environment positioned him within the dynastic line of Bobov leadership from childhood.

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Kerem Shlomo

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Divrei Shlomo

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Noam Shlomo

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Chochmas Shlomo

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