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Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam (Template:Lang-he) is the current leader of the Bobov Hasidic dynasty.

He was born in 1955 to the third Bobover rebbe, Grand Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam and Grand Rabbi Shlomo's second wife.

Grand Rabbi Shlomo lost his first wife and most of their children in the Holocaust; he and his successor Naftali Halberstam survived and rebuilt.

After his father's passing in 2000, his older half brother, Grand Rabbi Naftali Halberstam was appointed to be the fourth Bobover Rebbe, and Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish was appointed as "Rav Hatza'ir" ("Younger" Rabbi).

He was initially acting successor, and seven years after Grand Rabbi Naftali's 2005 passing he was appointed as fifth Grand Rabbi of Bobov.

Rebbes of Bobov

1. Shlomo Halberstam (1847–1905) grandson of the Sanzer Rebbe, Rabbi Chaim Halberstam
2. Ben Zion Halberstam (1874–1941)
3. Shlomo Halberstam (third Bobover rebbe) (1907–2000)
4. Naftali Halberstam (1931–2005) older son of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam
5. Mordechai Dovid Unger (b. 1954) Son-in-law of the late Grand Rabbi Naftali Zvi Halberstam, the fourth of Bobover Rebbe, and the second to oldest grandson of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam, the third Bobover Rebbe.

1. Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam (b. 1955) younger son of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam. After the death of his brother Grand Rabbi Naftali he became the Bobov 48 Rabbi

See also

• Bobov
• Chaim Halberstam (1793–1896)
• Bobowa (in Poland)

References

1. Nussbaum Cohen, Debra (February 29, 2012). "Serenading the Bobov Bride". The Forward.
2. "Hasidic Businessman Who Flipped AIDS Home Part of Sect With Cozy Ties to Mayor Bill de Blasio". The Forward. April 1, 2016. The Bobov rebbe, Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam, ...
3. "Admor Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam, 5th Bobover Rebbe ..." Birthdate: 1955
4. "The Life And Legacy Of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam". August 1, 2008.
5. "Contender ABD Bobov".
6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/wxhoh1niecau2ca/bobovPsak.pdf

External links

• Kol Bobov: Bobover Music (Yiddish Site), of Ben Zion Halberstam
• Link to Bais Din Ruling (in Hebrew)
• Halberstam family tree

• 1955 births
• Living people
• Rebbes of Bobov
• American Hasidic rabbis
• Rabbis from New York (state)
• People from Borough Park, Brooklyn
• Descendants of the Baal Shem Tov