Israel Friedmann

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The Tifferet Yisrael Synagogue in Jerusalem was named after Rabbi Yisrael Friedmann, who initiated its construction.

Israel Friedmann von Ruschyn ( Hebrew ישראל פרידמאןמרוז'ין; also Israel Friedmann , Yisroel Friedman von Ruschyn ; born in 1797 in Pohrebyschtsche ; died on September 27th jul. / October 9, 1850 greg. in Sadagora ) was a Hasidic rabbi , also known as the heylic rizhiner , "the saint of Ruschyn". He was the progenitor of several Hasidic dynasties, which are summarized under the umbrella term Ruschyn / Ruzhin.

As the son of Rabbi Sholom Shachne von Pohrebyschtsche, and grandson of Rabbi Avraham HaMalach , Friedmann was descended directly from Rabbi Dow Bär , the Maggid von Mesritsch , who was a student of Israel ben Eliezer .

When he was six years old, his father died and he came to live with his older brother, Rabbi Abraham von Pohrebyschtsche . At the age of seven he was engaged to be married to Sarah, the daughter of Rabbi Moshe von Berdychiv . At the age of 13 he married her and moved to Botoșani , Moldova . Three years later his brother Avrohom died and the young Israel succeeded him as leader of the Hasidic people. After moving first back to Pohrebyschtsche and then to Skwyra , he finally settled in Ruschyn, where he enjoyed the reputation of a holy man and attracted thousands of followers.

Rabbi Israel von Ruschyn ran a royal court, as he traced his ancestry back to the line of King David . He lived very splendidly and surrounded himself with a lot of luxury, like a silver carriage pulled by four horses. As a result he came into conflict with the Hasids from Zans and their rabbi Chaim Halberstam , who was characterized by a modest lifestyle.

In 1838 he was charged with complicity in the deaths of two Jews suspected of espionage and imprisoned by the Russian authorities for two years.

After he was released, he evaded further persecution by the authorities. He first fled to Chișinău , Iași and other places before finally settling in Sadagora in 1842. There he restored his court in all its splendor. In 1847 his wife died and he married Malka, the widow of Rabbi Hersh von Rimanov. Shortly before his death in 1850, he ordered the construction of a new synagogue with 1,000 seats. Israel Friedmann died in October 1850 and was buried in Sadagora. The synagogue was completed in 1881.

Sadagora remained an important center of Hasidism even after Friedmann's death. His six sons all formed a Hasidic dynasty, including the Sadigura , Boyan , Chortkov , Husyatin, and Bohush .

Friedmann's grave has been a pilgrimage site for Hasidic Jews since the 1990s. The splendid synagogue that he had built was preserved as a ruin. It was restored and reopened in 2016.

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  1. ↑ Wiener Zeitung : In the aristocratic palace of the Wunderrabbis ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , March 24, 2000, accessed April 14, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wienerzeitung.at
  2. ↑ https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2016/11/06/synagogue-in-sadhora-ukraine-rededicated/ Reopening of the synagogue. Retrieved February 10, 2019
  3. ↑ In the magazine Zwischenwelt, Literatur, Resistance, Exil Zeitschrift der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft , August 2014, p. 97, Corbea-Hoișie distances himself from his authorship because of inadmissible interference by the editors in his text, in particular an arbitrary Germanization of the word "Sadagora" , with the words: a contribution [...] that I can no longer recognize as my own.
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SURNAME Friedmann, Israel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedmann von Ruschyn, Israel (full name); Ruzhin, Yisroel Friedman von; Friedman, Israel; ישראל פרידמאןמרוז'ין (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hasidic rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Pohrebyschtsche
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1850
Place of death Sadagora