Skolye (Hasidic dynasty)

Skolye is a Hasidic dynasty named after the town of Skole (Yiddish: Skolye‎) in Eastern Galicia (currently in the Ukraine), where the founder of this dynasty lived and led his court.

List of rabbis

• Rabbi Yitzchok of Drohobych (d. March 11, 1752 ), disciple of the Baal Shem Tov.
  • Rabbi Yekhiel Michel Rabinowitz of Zlotshev (c.1721 – 1786), known as the Zlotshiver Maggid.
    • Rabbi Yosef Rabinowitz of Yampol (d. January 9, 1812), son of Rabbi Yekhiel Mikhl of Zlotshev
      • Rebbe Yitzchok Rabinowitz of Yampil (son-in-law of Reb Boruch of Mezhbizh), son of Rabbi Yosef of Yampol; succeeded his father-in-law as Rebbe in Mezhbizh).
        • Rebbe Boruch Rabinovich of Yampil, son of Reb Yitschak Drubitsher.
          • Rebbe Eliezer Chaim Rabinowitz of Yampola (1845–1916) (the first Hasidic rebbe in America and founder of the Skolye dynasty) – son of Rebbe Boruch Rabinovich of Iași.
            • Rebbe Boruch Pinchas Rabinowitz of Skolye (Skole) (1874–1920), buried in Vienna, son of Rebbe Eliezer Chaim of Yampola
              • Rebbe Dovid Yitzchok Eizek of Skolye (1896–1979), buried in Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives – son of the Rebbe Boruch Pinchas of Skolye.
                • R. Eliezer Chaim Rabinowitz, eldest son of Rebbe Dovid Yitzchok Eizek of Skolye
                • R. Meir Rabinovich (September 1, 1918 – ?), second son of Rebbe Dovid Yitzchok Eizek of Skolye
                • R. Yosef Boruch Pinchus Rabinowitz Ztz"l, son of Rebbe Dovid Yitzchok Eizek of Skolye
                  • Rebbe Avraham Moshe Rabinowitz, current Skolya Rebbe, son of R. Boruch Rabinowitz and eldest grandson of Rebbe Dovid Yitzchok Eizek
                  • Rebbe Dovid Yitzchok Eizik Rabinowitz eldest son of Rebbe Avraham Moshe Rabinowitz of skolya

External links

• http://skolya.org/
• The Skolya Rebbe’s Torah
• Torah thought by the "Skolye Rebbe", R. Avraham Moshe Rabinowitz