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Chassidic dynasty

Vorka-Amshinov

וורקא-אמשינוב

Vorka began in the Polish town of Warka under Rebbe Yitzchok Kalish, a leading talmid of Rebbe Simcha Bunim of Peshischa, who gathered much of the Peshischa community around him. His son Reb Menachem Mendel, the silent tzaddik, carried on in Vorka, while his eldest son Reb Yaakov Dovid founded the court of Amshinov. After the Holocaust the Kalish family line lives on through Amshinov, in Yerushalayim, Boro Park and Bet Shemesh.

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Began inWarka, Poland
FounderReb Yitzchok of Vorka
In the tree21 tzaddikim

Rebbes in order

Rebbe Yitzchok Kalish of Vorkaרבי יצחק קאליש מוורקאled 1829–1848 · WarkaRebbe Menachem Mendel Kalish of Vorkaרבי מנחם מנדל קאליש מוורקאthe Tzaddik HaShosek · led 1848–1868 · WarkaRebbe Simcha Bunim Kalish of Vorkaרבי שמחה בונם קאליש מוורקאled 1868–1905 · Warka, later Otwock
Rebbe Menachem Mendel Kalish of Vorka (the younger)רבי מנחם מנדל קאליש מוורקאled 1905–1918 · Warka

Where it began

Rebbe Simcha Bunim of Peshischaרבי שמחה בונים מפשיסחאTeacher of Reb Yitzchok of Vorka

Branches

Amshinov

Rebbe Yaakov Dovid Kalish of Amshinovרבי יעקב דוד קאליש מאמשינובled 1848–1878 · Amshinov (Mszczonow)Rebbe Menachem Kalish of Amshinovרבי מנחם קאליש מאמשינובled 1878–1917 · Amshinov, later WarsawRebbe Yosef Kalish of Amshinovרבי יוסף קאליש מאמשינובled 1917–1936 · AmshinovRebbe Yitzchok Kalish of Amshinovרבי יצחק קאליש מאמשינובthe Zera Yitzchok · led until 1993 · Williamsburg, then Boro Park
Rebbe Yosef Kalish of Amshinov (the second)רבי יוסף קאליש מאמשינוב (השני)led 1993–2020 · Boro Park
Rebbe Menachem Kalish of Amshinov, Boro Parkרבי מנחם קאליש מאמשינובled from 2020 · Boro Park
Rebbe Osher Chaim Kalish of Amshinov, Bet Shemeshרבי אשר חיים קאליש מאמשינובled from 2020 · Bet Shemesh

Amshinov-Otvotzk

Rebbe Shimon Sholom Kalish of Amshinov-Otvotzkרבי שמעון שלום קאליש מאמשינוב-אוטבוצקled 1917–1954 · OtwockRebbe Yerachmiel Yehuda Meir Kalish of Amshinov, Yerushalayimרבי ירחמיאל יהודה מאיר קאלישled 1954–1976 · Bayit Vegan, Yerushalayim
Rebbe Yaakov Aryeh Yeshaya Milikowsky of Amshinov, Yerushalayimרבי יעקב אריה ישעיה מיליקובסקיBayit Vegan, Yerushalayim

Opole

Rebbe Yirmiyahu Kalish of Opole-Amshinovרבי ירמיהו קאליש מאופולהthe Divrei Yirmiyah · led from 1917 · Warsaw (Opole-Amshinov)
Sources for these connections
  1. Amshinov · Wikipedia
  2. Belz · Encyclopaedia Judaica (Gale, 2008), via Jewish Virtual Library
  3. Belz (Hasidic dynasty) · Wikipedia (English)
  4. Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin · Wikipedia
  5. Elimelech of Lizhensk · Wikipedia (English)
  6. Menachem Mendel of Kotzk · Wikipedia
  7. Menachem Mendel of Rimanov · Wikipedia (English)
  8. Moshe Biderman · Wikipedia
  9. Moshe Teitelbaum (Ujhel) · Wikipedia
  10. Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Rothenberg Alter (The Chiddushei HaRim) · Jewish Virtual Library (citing the Orthodox Union)
  11. Shmelke of Nikolsburg · Wikipedia (English)
  12. Simcha Bunim of Peshischa · Wikipedia
  13. Tzvi Elimelech Spira of Dinov · Wikipedia
  14. Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov · Wikipedia
  15. Vurka (Hasidic dynasty) · Wikipedia
  16. Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin · Wikipedia
  17. Yaakov Yitzchak of Peshischa · Wikipedia
  18. Zidichov (Hasidic dynasty) · Wikipedia
  19. חיים הלברשטאם · Hebrew Wikipedia
  20. חסידות אמשינוב · Hebrew Wikipedia
  21. חסידות וורקא · Hebrew Wikipedia
  22. נפתלי צבי הורוביץ מרופשיץ · Wikipedia
  23. שלמה לייב מלענטשנא · Wikipedia

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