RebbeYaakov Horowitz of Melitz (c. 1784[a] – 1836[b]), son of Rebbe Naftali Tzvi. His father appointed him as the rabbi of Kolbasov (Kolbuszowa). In about 1810, he was chosen by the Jews of Melitz (Mielec) to be the town's rabbi and was smuggled out of Kolbasov (as he was beloved by the townsfolk of Kolbasov, and they did not allow him to leave). In Melitz he began to officiate as arebbe.[3][4] His teachings were published from manuscript inc. 1994 [5754] asZeraʻ Yaʻaḳov (זרע יעקב). Selected portions of this manuscript had been published previously.[5]
RebbeYehuda Horowitz of Melitz (c. 1820 – 1879), son of Rebbe Yaakov. Married the daughter of Rebbe Chaim Meir Yechiel Shapiro ofMogielnica of theKozhnitz dynasty.[3]
RebbeNaftali Horowitz of Melitz (died 1915), son of Rebbe Yehuda.[3]
RebbeElimelech Horowitz of Melitz, son of Rebbe Naftali and son-in-law of Rebbe Tzvi Hersh Horowitz of Rozvadov (see below). He died in the Holocaust.[3]
RebbeElazar Horowitz ofBorov. He died in the Holocaust.[3]
RebbeYechiel Mechel Moskowitz (1908–1956), Shotz-MelitzerRebbe,[6] son of RebbeShulem Moshkovitz ofShotz[7] and son-in-law of Rebbe Elazar Horowitz.[8]
RebbeMenachem Mendel Horowitz of Melitz (c. 1883 – 1943), son of Rebbe Naftali. He married Frumet Beila, daughter of Rabbi Shmuel Shmelka Ezriel, the rabbi ofKlasno [pl] nearWieliczka, and a great-granddaughter of RebbeYechezkel Shraga Halberstam of Shineva. He lived in Melitz where he was assistant rabbi andrebbe to his father. He died in the Holocaust in Radomishl (Radomyśl Wielki).[3][9]
RebbeAvraham Abish Horowitz ofSpinka andKruly (died 1944), son of Rebbe Naftali and son-in-law of Rebbe Yitzchak Eisik Weiss ofSpinka. Rebbe Avraham Abish and his descendants continued his father-in-law's dynasty; see thelineage of the Horowitz branch of the Spinka dynasty. He died in the Holocaust.[3]
RebbeYitzchak Horowitz (died 1978), MelitzerRebbe of New York City. Author ofBirkat Yitsḥak (ברכת יצחק), (New York, 1950).[3]
RebbeYisrael Horowitz of Melitz, son of Rebbe Yehuda. His wife, Malka,[10] was the daughter of his cousin, Rebbe Meir Horowitz of Dzhikov (seeDzhikov branch below).[3]
RebbeChaim Meir Yechiel Horowitz ofRaniżów, son of Rebbe Yisrael. He married Hesia,[11] daughter of RebbeChananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum ofSiget. He was the rabbi of Raniżów, thenrebbe of Selish (Vynohradiv). He died in the Holocaust.[3] His son-in-law, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Rubin of Muzhay (see belowRopshitz branch) succeeded him as therebbe of Selish.[12])
RebbeYaakov Horowitz, Melitz-Dzhikover Rebbe ofTarnów, son of Rebbe Yisrael, died in the Holocaust.[13][c]
RebbeYehuda Horowitz, Melitz-Dzhikover Rebbe ofTarnów, son of Rebbe Yaakov, died in the Holocaust. His wife was the granddaughter of Rebbe Abish Frankel (son-in-law of Rebbi Yaakov Horowitz [the first] of Melitz) and of Rebbe Chanina Horowitz of Ulanov (see below).[13]
RebbeYehoshua Horowitz Melitz-Dzhikover Rebbe ofTarnów, son of Rebbe Yehuda, died in the Holocaust.[13]
RebbeEliezer Horowitz (died 1997), Melitz-Turner Rebbe ofBnei Brak and Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York, son of Rebbe Yehoshua and son-in-law of Rabbi Yeruchem Bernstein of Jerusalem, a descendant of theLelov dynasty.[15]
RebbeAvraham Yaakov Horowitz, Dzhikov-Melitzer Rebbe ofMonsey, New York,[17] son of Rebbe Eliezer and son-in-law of Rebbe Mendel Wagschal, Shinever Rebbe of Monsey (of theLantzut dynasty).[15]
RebbeYitzchak David Horowitz, son of Rebbe Eliezer and son-in-law of Rebbe Yoel Beer, the Ratzferter Rebbe ofSão Paulo, of theSanz dynasty.[18] Rabbi of the Hasidic community of São Paulo.[15]
RebbeChanina Horowitz ofUlaniv (died 1881), son of Rebbe Yaakov and son-in-law of his uncle, Rebbe Eliezer Horowitz of Dzhikov (seeDzhikov branch below).[3]
RebbeAvraham[d] Horowitz ofShendishov (1823–1905), son of Rebbe Yaakov.[3]
RebbeAlter Zev Horowitz ofStrizhov (died 1920), son of Rebbe Avraham[3]
RebbeAsher Yerucham Horowitz (c. 1869 – 1955), Shendishover Rebbe of New York, son of Rebbe Avraham. In Poland, he lived in Piantikov. He emigrated to the United States in the late 1920s. The rest of his family died in the Holocaust. He lived inWilliamsburg, Brooklyn.[3][21]
Grand RabbiNaftali Asher Yeshayahu Moscowitz is the current Melitzer Rebbe ofAshdod,Israel and author of thePeiros Hailan halachic discourses on the laws ofChol HaMoed and theNefesh Chaya a commentary and linear interpretation of theBook of Psalms.
Grand Rabbi Moscowitz is married to Mrs. Shaindel Kahana Stern ofLondon, daughter of an understudy of the Shotzer Rov of London, the Melitzer rebbe's grandfather.[23]
In 1996, RabbiLazer Brody who is a Melitzer Chosid, became the understudy of The Melitzer Rebbe, a position he kept for two years.[24][25]
^This approximate date is preferred over several later dates.[1]
^Alfasi has 19 Tevet 5597 [1836], but most other sources give 19 Tevet 5599 [1839] as his date of death. The former date, however, is in better accord with several family traditions.[2]
^A radically different version of the genealogy of Melitz-Dzhikov dynasty is attributed to Rebbe Yitzchak David Horowitz of São Paulo. Among other major differences, Rebbe Yisrael, father of Rebbe Yaakov of Melitz-Dzhikov, is said to be the son of Rebbe Chanina of Ulanov and the son-in-law of Rebbe Yehuda of Melitz, not the son of Rebbe Yehuda of Melitz and son-in-law of Rebbe Meir of Dzhikov.[14]
^In most sources he is called "Avraham" alone, except for by Vunder who calls him "Avraham Aba",[19] which he later retracts.[20]
^Meʼore Galitsyah. Vol. 6. p. 454.Amsel, Baruch (18 March 2009)."Rebbe Asher Yeruchem Horowitz".Kevarim of Tzadikim in North America. Retrieved1 November 2012.
Alfasi, Yitsḥaḳ (1995–1998).ha-Ḥasidut mi-dor le-dorהחסידות מדור לדור [Hasidism from generation to generation] (in Hebrew). Jerusalem: Mekhon Daʻat Yosef.LCCN95828260.(subscription required) Alfasi's system divides Ropshitz into two dynasties: Ropshitz proper (p. 268), comprising the Linsk, Melitz, and Dzhikov branches, and Ropshitz II (p. 335), comprising the Ropshitz branch.
