Reb Aryeh Leibush Lipschitz of Brzesko zy"a, the Aryeh D'Bei Ilai

The Aryeh D'Bei Ilai zy"a

דער אריה דבי עילאי זי״ע

Years d. 1846 Yahrzeit 17 Tevet
15 January 1846 · usually in December or January Kever / tziyun The ohel in the Beis Hachaim of Brzesko (Brigel), Poland

Upcoming yahrzeit: 27 December 2026 (5787)

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Biography

Reb Aryeh Leibush Lipschitz zy"a, the Aryeh D'Bei Ilai, was av beis din of Brzesko — Brigel, as Yidden called the town. He is known by the sefer Aryeh D'Bei Ilai. He was niftar on 17 Tevet 5606 (15 January 1846) and rests in the ohel in the Beis Hachaim of Brzesko.

The Shineve Rav zy"a, a son of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz zy"a, married young into this family. In the same ohel stand later matzeivos of the Lipschitz family of Brzesko. At the edge of the Beis Hachaim there is also a memorial to around two hundred kedoshim of the kehillah, murdered on 18 June 1942 (3 Tammuz 5702). Your kvittel will be placed on the kever of the Aryeh D'Bei Ilai zy"a in Brzesko.

Historical background

Brzesko was a Galician kehillah between Krakow and Tarnow, known to Yidden as Brigel. In the first half of the nineteenth century it had a well-known av beis din in the Aryeh D'Bei Ilai zy"a, in the same years that Sanz was growing into a great Chasidic court. The kehillah was destroyed in the churban; a memorial in the Beis Hachaim records the kedoshim murdered there in June 1942.

Before & after

Who came before

Who came after

Reb Meshulam Zalman Yehonasan Lipschitz zt"l — He rests in the same ohel in Brzesko. The exact family relationship is not spelled out on this page.
Reb Tuvia Lipschitz zt"l — A later matzeivah in the same ohel in Brzesko.

In his dor

The Divrei Chaim of Sanz zy"a — A contemporary in nearby Sanz. The Shineve Rav, his son, married into the Aryeh D'Bei Ilai's family.
The Shineve Rav zy"a — He married young into this family, as already recorded on his page.

Sources

The facts on this page come from the earlier site and from the sources listed here. Where the sources are not one shittah, it is written in the text.

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