Naftali Halberstam

Naftali Halberstam
Fourth Bobover Rebbe
Naftali Halberstam on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot
Full name Naftali Tzvi Halberstam
Born 1931
Died March 23, 2005(2005-03-23) (aged 73–74)
Buried Floral Park Cemetery, Deans, New Jersey
Predecessor Shlomo Halberstam
Successor Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam
Father Shlomo Halberstam
Wife Hesa

Naftali Tzvi Halberstam (Hebrew: ר' נפתלי הלברשטאם‎) (1931-2005) was the Grand Rebbe of Bobov from August 2000 until March 2005. He succeeded his father, Shlomo Halberstam (1907–2000), as Grand Rebbe of Bobov.

Early life

Naftali Halberstam was born in Bobowa, Poland in 1931 (25 Sivan, 5691 on the Hebrew calendar) to Shlomo Halberstam, the third Bobover Rebbe. His mother and two siblings died in the Holocaust, and at war's end, when Naftali was a teenager, his father, Shlomo, managed to arrange for him to go to the Holy Land. Shlomo remained in Europe, so Naftali was not sure if his father had survived the war.

Post-war

Halberstam lived for several years in Israel, where he received his rabbinical ordination. After the war he found out that his father had indeed survived, and had relocated to New York. In the late 1940s, he moved there, where he was reunited with his father. On his father's death in 2000, he became the Grand Rebbe of Bobov in Borough Park, Brooklyn. He died on March 23, 2005 (12 days in Adar, 5765). Halberstam was buried next to his father in Floral Park Cemetery in New Jersey.

Halberstam's wife, Rebbetzin Hesa, died on May 15, 2011 (11 Iyar, 5771) aged 80.

Halberstam left no sons, only two daughters. His older daughter is married to Yehoshua Rubin, the current Bobov-45 dayan (judge). His younger daughter is married to the first Bobov-45 Rebbe, Mordechai Dovid Unger.

Rebbes of Bobov

  1. Shlomo Halberstam (1847–1905) grandson of the Sanzer Rebbe, Chaim Halberstam
  2. Ben Zion Halberstam (1874–1941)
  3. Shlomo Halberstam (1907–2000)
  4. Naftali Halberstam (1931–2005)
  5. Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam (b.1955), current Rebbe, younger son of Shlomo Halberstam
  • Mordechai Dovid Unger (b. 1954), current and first Bobov-45 Rebbe, son-in-law of Naftali Halberstam

See also

Religious titles
Preceded by
Grand Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam		 Rebbe of Bobov
2000–2005		 Succeeded by
Grand Rabbi Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam


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