Trisk (Hasidic dynasty)

Trisk is a Hasidic dynasty originating in Turisk, Ukraine. The first rebbe of Trisk was Grand Rabbi Avraham Twersky (born 1806, died July 1, 1889 in Turisk),^[1] son of Grand Rabbi Mordechai Twersky of Chernobyl.

Grand Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Eichenstein of Jerusalem, Israel presently heads the Trisk community based in northern Jerusalem; while Grand Rabbi Menachem Mendel Matisyohu Twersky is known as the Trisker Rebbe of London.

Lineage

• Grand Rabbi Menachem Nuchem Twersky (born June 23 1829, died 1887 at Brisk),^[2] eldest son of Grand Rabbi Avraham.
  • Grand Rabbi Mordechai Zishe Twersky of Trisk-Iasi (died March 18 1932 in Romania),^[3] eldest son of Rabbi Menachem Nuchem
    • Grand Rabbi Shulem Yoseph Twersky (born 1883 at Turisk, died February 8 1945 in New York),^[4] son of Rabbi Mordechai Zishe
    • Grand Rabbi Yakov Leib Twersky (born 1885 at Turisk, died October 12 1979 in Bnei Brak, Israel),^[5] son of Rabbi Mordechai Zishe
      • Grand Rabbi Chaim Menachem Avrohom Twersky (born February 27 1915 at Zinkov, died December 1 2010 at Hackney, London),^[6] son of Rabbi Yakov Leib
        • Grand Rabbi Mordechai Zisye Twersky,^[7] son of Rabbi Chaim Menachem Avrohom
      • Grand Rabbi Pinchos Twersky of Trisk-London (born May 17 1916 at Zinkov, died August 12 2001 at London),^[8] son of Rabbi Yakov Leib
        • Grand Rabbi Menachem Mendel Matisyohu Twersky of London, (born December 9, 1946 at London),^[9] son of Rabbi Pinchos
  • Grand Rabbi Moishe Yide Leib Twersky of Chelem (born 1873 at Tolna, died 1938 at Warsaw, Poland),^[10] second son of Rabbi Menachem Nuchem
• Grand Rabbi Mordche Twersky of Kozmir (born 1840, died June 20 1915 at Kielce),^[11] second son of Grand Rabbi Avraham.
• Grand Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Leib Twersky of Trisk-Hrubieszow (born 1847 at Turisk, died May 10 1918 in Gmina Hrubieszów, Lublin),^[12] third son of Grand Rabbi Avraham.
  • Grand Rabbi Moshe Mordechei Twersky (born 1877 at Turisk, perished May 13 1943 at Bełżec extermination camp),^[13] son of Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Leib
    • Chief Rabbi Menachem Tzvi Eichenstein,^[14] of St. Louis, Missouri (1943–1982) son-in-law of Rabbi Moshe Mordechei
      • Rabbi Dov Ber Alter Eichenstein,^[15] son of Rabbi Menachem
        • Grand Rabbi Moshe Mordechei Eichenstein (born August 7, 1958 at Jerusalem),^[16] son of Rabbi Dov Ber Alter

References

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See also

• Hasidic dynasties