Yehoshua Rokeach of Machnovka

Yehoshua Rokeach of Machnovka

Infobox Rebbe


caption = Grand Rabbi Joshua Rokeach, present Machnovker Rebbe

Grand Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach (born 1949), current Machnovka Rebbe of Bnei Brak is a great-nephew of Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshl of Machnovka, the third Machnovker Rebbe.

As a scion of the Belz dynasty

The lineage of the present Machnovker Rebbe from the Belz dynasty is as follows:

NOTE: since the present Machnovker Rebbe is a descendant from the belz dynasty, he is Associated with the current belz community.He has hundreds of Belzer chasidem who have shuls & Belzer centers in Israel,Europe & US

*Grand Rabbi Shalom Rokeach, author of "Sar Shalom", the first Belzer Rebbe, a disciple of the Seer of Lublin
**Grand Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach, son of the "Sar Shalom", second Belzer Rebbe
***Grand Rabbi Issachar Dov Rokeach, son of Rabbi Joshua, the third Belzer Rebbe. He first married Basia Rochma, daughter of Rabbi Yeshaya Meshullam Zusya Twersky. Then he married Chaya Devora of the Pychenik family of Berezna [Rosenstein, p.1116, G15.4] . The Belz connection with Chernobyl was strong. Rabbi Issachar, though a Belzer Rebbe, was known as the “"illui" (prodigy) of Chernobyl,” where he lived for ten years. Rabbi Issachar's five daughters all married into the Chernobyl dynasty [Rabinowicz, 1996: see entry by name] .
****Grand Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach of Jaroslaw, son of Rabbi Issachar Dov of Belz (with his second wife). Rabbi Yehoshua married and then divorced Chana, daughter of the first Machnovker Rebbe, Yosef Meyer Twersky [Rosenstein, p.1117, G15.4] ["Grand Rabbis of Chernobyl", p.178]
***** Rabbi Isaac David Rokeach, son of Rebbe Yehoshua and Chana above.
****** Grand Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach, (born in Tel Aviv, 1949) of Machnovka-Bnei Brak ["Grand Rabbis of Chernobyl", p.216] is the son of Rabbi Isaac David Rokeach, son of Chana Zosha above. He succeeded his great-uncle Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Heshl Twersky as Machnovker Rebbe. He is the fourth and present Machnovker Rebbe.

Bibliography

* "Grand Rabbis of Chernobyl" (in Hebrew and English; Hebrew title: Admorei Malchus Beis Chernobyl), Flushing and Lakewood, New York: Genealogy Research Center of the Twersky Chernobyl Dynasty and the Makarov-Chernobyl Foundation, 2003.
* Rabinowicz, Tzvi M. (ed.). "The Encyclopedia of Hasidism". Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc., 1996.
* Rosenstein, Neil. "The Unbroken Chain: Biographical Sketches and Genealogy of Illustrious Jewish Families from the 15th-20th Century", rev. ed. (2 vols.). New York, NY: CIS Publishers, 1990.

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