Shmuel Dovid Halberstam

Shmuel Dovid Halberstam
Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe of Borough Park
File:SanzKlausenburg.JPG Rabbi Samuel Duvid Halberstam, Sanz-Klausenburger Rebbe
Term	1994 – present
Full name	Shmiel David Halberstam
Predecessor	Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam
Father	Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam
Mother	Chaya Nechama Ungar
Wife	Tzipora Weider

Rabbi Shmiel Dovid Halberstam, (Hebrew: שמואל דוד הלברשטאם‎), also known as the Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe of Borough Park, is the younger son and one of the successors of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, the previous Klausenberger Rebbe. He resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Biography

He is one of seven children born in his father's second marriage to Chaya Nechama Ungar, daughter of the Nitra Rav, Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Ungar. He was named after his mother's father, who died during the Holocaust. His older brother, Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Halberstam, is the Sanzer Rebbe of Israel, and he also has five sisters. He married Tzipora Weider, daughter of Rabbi Aharon Wieder, the Linzer Rav, who was a long-time dayan in the Klausenberger beis din (rabbinical court) in America.

Rabbi Halberstam is the leader of North American operations for the Mifal HaShas Torah study network founded by his father, and honoree president of the Kolel Chibas Yerushalayim charity organization in the name of Reb Meir Baal HaNess.

He is known for his effusive and lengthy prayers.

See also

• Klausenberg (Hasidic dynasty)
• Sanz (Hasidic dynasty)

External links

• Sanz Klausenburg web-site, A collection of picture galleries of the rebbe and more.
• Grand Rebbe Shmuel Halberstam officiating over the tish celebrating the Jewish holiday of Purim, video taken in his synagogue in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn, New York.