 Rabbi Shimon Sholom Kalish | |
| Founder | |
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| Yaakov Dovid Kalish | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Israel,United States,Poland,Belgium | |
| Religions | |
| Hasidic Judaism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Vurka,Peshischa |
Amshinov (Yiddish: אמשינאוו) is a dynasty ofHasidic Judaism founded in the town ofMszczonów,Poland, by Yaakov Dovid Kalish, the son ofIsrael Yitzhak Kalish. Amshinov is a branch ofWarka Hasidism, itself a branch ofPeshischa Hasidism. This lineage traces back toSimcha Bunim of Peshischa (1765-1827), who was the teacher of Israel Yitzhak Kalish.
The first Amshinoverrebbe, Yaakov Dovid Kalish, was a son of the first Vurker rebbe,Israel Yitzhak Kalish ofWarka (Yiddish:Vurka).
Kalish died in 1878 and was succeeded as Amshinover Rebbe by one of his sons, Menachem Kalish.
When Menachem Kalish died in 1917 his son Yosef became the rebbe in Amshinov, and his other son, Shimon Sholom, became rebbe inOtwock (Yiddish:אטוואצקOtvotsk). He was involved in the exodus of thousands of young men in Kletzk, Radin,Novhardok, and otheryeshivas viaJapan toShanghai at the outbreak ofWorld War II. By the time Shanghai came under Japanese control, it held 26,000 Jews.
Shimon Sholom's son Yerachmiel Yehuda Myer Kalish (1901–1976) of Amshinov, was born inPrzysucha (Yiddish:פּשיסכעPshiskhe),Poland. Hestudied Torah with his grandfather, Menachem Kalish.
After the war, Shimon moved to the United States. Upon his death in 1954 (י"ט אב תשי"ד), his son accompanied his body toTiberias inIsrael, and remained in Israel, later moving toTel Aviv, and then to theBayit Vegan neighbourhood ofJerusalem.
Yaakov Aryeh Yeshaya Milikowsky, the Amshinoverrebbe in theBayit Vegan section ofJerusalem, was born in the United States and was named after his ancestorYaakov Aryeh Guterman of the hasidic dynasty ofRadzymin.[1] He is the son of Yerachmiel Yehudah Meir Kalish's daughter Chayah Nechamah and her husband Chaim Milikowsky.[2]
In 2015 he founded an organization calledTzedaka V'chesed Amshinov as a charity in memory ofRabbi Meir Ba'al HaNes.
Yosef Kalish II was the previous Amshinover rebbe in theBoro Park section ofBrooklyn, New York City. He was the son of Yitzchak Kalish, the son of Yosef Kalish. He died on April 5, 2020, at the age of 63, fromCOVID-19.[3]
His two children succeeded him: the older, Menachem Kalish, became the rebbe in Boro Park[4] and the younger, Osher Chaim Kalish, in Bet Shemesh.
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