Reb Pinchas Dovid Horowitz zy"a, Bostoner Rebbe of Flatbush

Biography

Reb Pinchas Dovid HaLevi Horowitz zy"a, the Bostoner Rebbe of Flatbush, was a son of Reb Moshe Horowitz zy"a, Bostoner Rebbe of New York, and a grandson of the first Bostoner Rebbe, whose name he was given. Hebrew Wikipedia gives his years as 5705–25 Sivan 5783 (1945–2023). He learned in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, in Tchebin, and in Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, and married a daughter of Reb Meir Segal Landau of Drohobych. He should not be confused with his cousin of the same name, Reb Pinchas Dovid Horowitz, the Chuster Rav of Boro Park, a son of Reb Levi Yitzchok zy"a, who was niftar earlier, on 1 Shevat 5781.

After his father's histalkus he took on the admorus together with his brother, and established the Bostoner court in Flatbush, at Avenue J and East 29th Street. For many years he led Yeshiva Darkei Noam (also called Noam HaTorah in some notices), and he also established a Chasidic presence in Tannersville. He grew up in Crown Heights, near the Lubavitcher Rebbe's house, and later accounts recall a warm neighborly connection.

He was niftar on 25 Sivan 5783 (14 June 2023), after an illness, at seventy-eight years of age. The levayah was held at his beis medrash in Flatbush, and the aron was flown to Eretz Yisroel. A further levayah was held at Shamgar in Yerushalayim, and he rests on Har HaZeitim, in the section of Kollel Chibas Jerusalem. Your kvittel will be brought to his kever. He was succeeded in Flatbush by his son, Reb Mordechai.

Historical background

In the years after the Bostoner court of New York moved through Crown Heights and Boro Park, this son of Reb Moshe zy"a established a Bostoner kehillah in Flatbush, and a summer presence in Tannersville.

Before & after