Mordechai Dovid Unger

Mordechai Dovid Unger
Rebbe of Bobov - 45
Term 23 March 2005 – present
Full name Mordechai Duvid Unger
Born 1954
New York
Father Yaakov Yitzchok Unger
Wife Rivka Halberstam

Mordechai Duvid Unger (מרדכי דוד אונגער) was born in 1954 to Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Unger of Dombrov.[1] He is the younger son-in-law of the late Grand Rabbi Naftali Zvi Halberstam, the fourth of Bobover Rebbe, and the second to oldest grandson of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam, the third Bobover Rebbe.

Following the death of his father-in-law, Grand Rabbi Naftali Zvi Halberstam, in 2005, a part of the Bobov Chasidim favored him as their Rebbe. He is currently the first Bobover-45 Rebbe (45-אדמו"ר מבאבוב), (meaning: the Bobov 45th'er Rebbe - named after a street name in the "Borough Park" neighbourhood in Brooklyn, New York, where the center of his community is renting their headquarters location), and the other son-in law, Rabbi Yehoshua Rubin, is Bobover-45 Rav (אבד"ק באבוב-45

  1. Current: Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger (born 1954) as Bobov-45 Rebbe

Rebbes of Bobov-45

  1. Current: Rabbi Mordechai Duvid Unger (b.1954) as Bobov-45 Rebbe

See also


References

  1. ↑ Rebbes of Bobov: Ben Zion Halberstam, Mordechai Dovid Unger, Naftali Halberstam, Shlomo Halberstam. General Books. 2010. ISBN 9781157267386.
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