Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (third Dushinsky rebbe) explained

Honorific-Prefix:Grand Rabbi
Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky
Third Dushinsky Rebbe
Began:2003
Predecessor:Grand Rabbi Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky
Residence:Jerusalem
Dynasty:Dushinsky
Parents:Grand Rabbi Yisrael Moshe Dushinsky

Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (Hebrew: יוסף צבי דושינסקי) is the third Rebbe of the Dushinsky Hasidic dynasty of Jerusalem, Israel. He assumed the leadership of the Hasidut upon the death of his father, Rabbi Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky, second Dushinsky Rebbe, in 2003. The Dushinsky Hasidic movement was founded by his grandfather and namesake, Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, in Jerusalem in the 1930s. Both his father and grandfather also served as Gaavad (chief rabbi) of the Edah HaChareidis.[1]

He has one brother, Rabbi Mordechai Yehuda Dushinsky,[2] who is Rav of the Dushinsky community in Beit Shemesh.[3]

The Rebbe heads Yeshivas Beis Yosef Tzvi, the movement's flagship yeshiva on Shmuel HaNavi Street in Jerusalem,[4] as well as the movement's other educational institutions, which have close to 3,000 students in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Ashdod, and other locales.[5] [6]

He and his family reside in the Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood of Jerusalem.[7] He is the son-in-law of Rav Zalman Leib Meisels, The Seagate Rov.[8] [9]

Rebbes of Dushinsky

  1. Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (1867–1948)
  2. Rabbi Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky (1921–2003), son of Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky
  3. Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, son of Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: My Machberes: Dushinsky Rebbe Visits New York City. Rabbi Gershon. Tannenbaum. 15 February 2012. 15 February 2015. The Jewish Press.
  2. Web site: NEWS: HaRav Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky, zt'l. Betzalel. Kahn. 2 April 2003. 15 February 2015. Dei'ah VeDibur.
  3. Web site: NEWS: Ramat HaTana'im in Beit Shemesh Gets New Rov and New Sefer Torah. Betzalel. Kahn. 4 April 2006. 15 February 2015. Dei'ah VeDibur.
  4. Web site: בית יוסף צבי דושינסקי. he. Beit Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky. Olam HaTorah. 15 February 2015.
  5. Web site: Baltimore Hosts The Dushinsky Rebbe, shlita (Expanded Photo Essay) . Yitzy. Kaplowitz. 12 December 2014. 15 February 2015. Baltimore Jewish Life.
  6. Web site: Dushinsky Rebbe to Arrive in Lakewood This Evening for First Time. 7 January 2013. 15 February 2015. The Lakewood Scoop.
  7. Book: Israguide 2006 . Heimishkeit Eruim . Feldheim Publishers . 194 . 2006 . 1-58330-294-8.
  8. Web site: Boro Park 24.
  9. Web site: התרגשות בחסידות: הרבי ישהה בפסח בארה"ב. 20 July 2016 .