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Rebbe Eliezer Chaim Rabinowitz

December 17th, 2007 · 12 Comments

Yampole Rebbesend-a-kvitel
d. 5 Iyar, 1916
The Yampole Rebbe, the forbearer of the Skolya Chassidic Court was the first Admor to visit these shores. The Rebbe first visited the United States in 1890 and eventually settled in New York in 1912. The Rebbe was also from the first Admorim to be buried in America.
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Directions to kever:
Mount Judah Cemetery Section One
81-14 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Corner of Lebanon Road and Sinai Avenue, look for large candle box)
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Tags: Admorim · Mount Judah Cemetery · New York · Queens / L.I., NY · Zlotchov

12 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Boroparker // Jan 12, 2009 at 3:06 am

    I was on my way to the airport (LGA) this morning and I stopped at the Rebbe?s kever, the candle box was frozen shut!!!!!!

  • 2 asher // Jul 5, 2010 at 2:14 pm

    Is Yampole the same city where the Noda Be’yehuda z”l served as rav prior Prague?

  • 3 Ben Bee Zee // Jul 5, 2010 at 2:25 pm

    YES

  • 4 asher // Jul 8, 2010 at 1:18 pm

    cool… my wife is a direct decedent of the Noda B’yehuda. My FIL is a ben achar ben.

    Below is a picture of R’ Aaron Yaakov Jacobs, buried right next to the Yampoler, who was he that he was zoiche to be buried next to the Rebbe.
    http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad339/aman51/IMG_0833.jpg?t=1278609382

  • 5 YD Miller // Jul 8, 2010 at 1:46 pm

    Asher,
    Out of which of the Nodas Beyuhudas children does your wife descendt?

  • 6 asher // Jul 8, 2010 at 1:54 pm

    Shmuel, I believe. This reminds me that to get a hold of the family tree. Seeing is believing.

  • 7 admin // Dec 7, 2010 at 12:28 pm


    Photo Credit: From the library of Jonathan Stern, Takoma Park, MD

  • 8 kugelfreser // Apr 6, 2011 at 2:53 pm

    wow my holy zaidi thanx for putting this picture up wat a zchut u have to spread his light

  • 9 pinchos // May 8, 2011 at 5:48 pm

    Tonight ה’ אייר is the yartzeit of The Yampole Rebbe, his Tzion is a great Makom Tefila. May he be a meilitz yosher for all of Klal Yisroel. ZY”A

  • 10 Tattale // Jun 14, 2011 at 2:57 am

    Kigelfressir! on Apr 6 you posted that Reb Laizer Chaim Yampoler’s wife SARA (probabely “Mita sara”) was a 4th generation of Sara, R’ Nachman’s daughter. Can you please explain it more in detail?

  • 11 asher // Apr 26, 2012 at 10:19 pm

    Yahrtzeit tomorrow.

  • 12 Tattale // Apr 27, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    Was there today.

    It was a big התעוררות

    Zol men huben gepoilt ales gitz
    Zol ehr zahn a malitz yosher of klal yisroel.

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