Reb Chaim Avrohom HaLevi Horowitz zy"a, Bostoner Rebbe of New York and of Ramat Beit Shemesh

Reb Chaim Avrohom Horowitz zy"a, Bostoner Rebbe of Ramat Beit Shemesh

רבי חיים אברהם הורוויץ זי״ע, באסטאנער רבי פון רמת בית שמש

Years 1933–2016 Yahrzeit 18 Sivan
24 June 2016 · usually in June Kever / tziyun Har HaZeitim (the Mount of Olives), Yerushalayim, near his father

Upcoming yahrzeit: 23 June 2027 (5787)

Hebrew Wikipedia gives 18 Sivan 5776, which matches 24 June 2016. A later listing of 21 Sivan was not followed, because it does not match the day of the petirah in the news reports.

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Biography

Reb Chaim Avrohom HaLevi Horowitz zy"a was a son of Reb Moshe Horowitz zy"a, Bostoner Rebbe of New York, and a grandson of the first Bostoner Rebbe. He was born in 1933; English Wikipedia says Poland, and Encyclopaedia Judaica says Zhidachov. He was named after his maternal grandfather, Reb Chaim Avraham of Ziditchov zy"a. As a bochur he learned in Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, under Rav Aharon Kotler zt"l.

After his father's histalkus in 5745 (1985), he succeeded him as Bostoner Rebbe of New York, in Boro Park. He later settled in Ramat Beit Shemesh and opened a beis medrash there. Hebrew Wikipedia and some English accounts give the year as 5755 (1995); Matzav, in the notice of his petirah, gives 2006. The page records both dates and does not treat the year of the move as settled. He was known as a baal menagen.

While visiting America for the wedding of a granddaughter, he had a heart attack and was niftar on 18 Sivan 5776 (24 June 2016) in New Jersey. The levayah was held in Lakewood, at Beth Medrash Govoha, and in Boro Park. He rests on Har HaZeitim in Yerushalayim, near his father. Your kvittel will be brought to his kever. His sons include Reb Yaakov Yitzchok of Lawrence, New York, and Reb Yisroel Yonah of Boro Park.

Historical background

In the years after the first American Bostoner courts, this grandson of the first Rebbe led the New York kehillah and then established a Bostoner beis medrash in Ramat Beit Shemesh.

Before & after

Who came before

Reb Moshe Horowitz zy"a, Bostoner Rebbe of Brooklyn — His father, whom he succeeded as Bostoner Rebbe of New York.
The first Bostoner Rebbe, Reb Pinchas Dovid Horowitz zy"a — His grandfather.

Who came after

In his dor

Reb Pinchas Dovid Horowitz zy"a, Bostoner Rebbe of Flatbush — His brother, who led the Bostoner court in Flatbush.

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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