Naftali Yehuda Horowitz

Naftali Yehuda Horowitz
Grand Rabbi Naftali Yehuda Horowitz
Bostoner Rebbe of Boston
Term	December 2009–
Full name	Naftali Yehuda Horowitz
Predecessor	Levi Yitzchak Horowitz
Father	Levi Yitzchak Horowitz
Mother	Raichel Ungar

Naftali Yehuda Halevi Horowitz is the Bostoner Rebbe of Boston, having succeeded his father, Grand Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, the second Bostoner Rebbe, upon the latter's death in December 2009. He oversees the Boston Hasidic community from the New England Chassidic Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, built by his father, and also directs ROFEH International, the community-based medical referral and hospitality liaison support agency established by his father.^[1][2]

Family

The New England Chassidic Center complex on Beacon Street, Brookline, Massachusetts.

Horowitz is the third and youngest son of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Horowitz and Raichel Unger Leifer. He is a ninth-generation descendant on the male line of Rabbi Shmuel Shmelke Horowitz, the Nikolsburger Rebbe (1726–1778).^[3] His eldest brother, Rabbi Pinchos Dovid Horowitz, is the Bostoner-Chuster Rav of Borough Park, Brooklyn, and his other brother Mayer Alter is the Bostoner Rebbe of Har Nof, Jerusalem.^[3] His sister Shayna Gittel is married to the Vialopola Rebbe of Flatbush, Brooklyn, and his sister Toba Leah is married to Dayan Moshe Chaim Geldzheler of Jerusalem.

Biography

Horowitz received rabbinical ordination at Beth Medrash Gevoha in Lakewood, New Jersey and Tchebin Yeshiva of Jerusalem, Israel. He married Shayndle, daughter of the Uheler Rav, Rabbi Shalom HaCohen Weiss, and in 1980 returned with her to Boston^[4] to become the Rav of Congregation Beth Pinchas in Brookline. Congregation Beth Pinchas is part of the New England Chassidic Center, an umbrella organization providing religious and community services throughout the Boston area.

An acknowledged and accomplished Torah scholar, he is much sought out as a counsellor. He is also widely known throughout the Jewish communities of Boston and New York as a highly skilled mohel (ritual circumciser).

Horowitz is related through the marriages of his children to many luminaries of the Hasidic world, including the Slonimer Rebbe of Jerusalem, the Sadigura Rebbe of Bnei Brak, and the Mattersdorfer Rav and Unsdorfer Rav of New York.

Following the traditional seven-day mourning period after the death of his father, Horowitz was acclaimed as the new Bostoner Rebbe of Boston by the majority of his father's Hasidim.

References

1. ^ Horan, Gavriel (13 October 2010). "ROFEH International – Chesed with a heart". The Jewish Press. http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/45565/. Retrieved 9 February 2011. 
2. ^ "The New Bostoner Rebbe: Harav Naftali Yehuda Halevi Horowitz, and a Special Shabbos in Boston". Hamodia. 2010. http://www.hamodia.com/inthepaper.cfm?ArticleID=472. Retrieved 9 February 2011. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Tannenbaum, Rabbi Gershon (14 April 2010). "Bostoner Rebbe Visits 17th-Century Ancestor". The Jewish Press. http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/43349/. Retrieved 9 February 2011. 
4. ^ "A Timeline of the Bostoner Dynasty". ROFEH International. Fall 2010. p. 15. https://www.jewishboxoffice.com/clients/rofeh/images/rofeh_newsletter.pdf. Retrieved 9 February 2011. 

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