Mordechai of Kremnitz

Rabbi Mordechai of Kremnitz (Hebrew: מרדכי מקרמניץ) (1745/1746 – 23 June 1820)[1] was a Hasidic rabbi in the city of Kremenets. He is considered by some to be one of the greatest rebbes of his generation.[2]

Mordechai of Kremnitz
Personal
Born1745/1746
Died23 June 1820 (age 74 or 75)
ReligionJudaism
Parents
  • Yechiel Michal of Zloczow (father)
  • Sarah Rakhil (mother)
SynagogueSynagogue at Kremenets

Biography

Mordechai was the son of Rabbi Yechiel Michal of Zloczow and his wife Sarah Rakhil bat Moshe, the youngest of five brothers.[3] Yechiel was a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov and the Maggid of Mezeritch.[4] He married the daughter of Rabbi Eliezer of Kolbasov.[2] He was a pupil of both his father and of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk.

Following his father's death, Mordechai assumed his father's position as Rebbe. Many Hasidim across Volhynia travelled to visit him.[5] He composed a Siddur according to Ha'ARI called Tefilah Yeshorah, known as the Siddur Berditschov.[6]

Among his students were:

  • Rabbi Avraham Dov of Avrutsch
  • Rabbi Yeshayahu Shor of Horodanka[7]
  • Rabbi Meir of Premishlan[2]
  • Rabbi Nathan of Breslov, who began to approach Hasidism under the guise of Mordechai[8]

Family

Among his children are:

  • Rabbi Yitzhak of Granov, the son-in-law of Rabbi Sholom Shachne or Prohobisht
  • A daughter who married Rabbi Shlomo of Granov, son of Rabbi Shmuel Yehuda Rabinowitz
  • Another daughter, who married Rabbi Zvi-Aryeh of Safed
  • Rabbi Michal of Vishnowitz
  • Rabbi Yosef Yoska of Valtsisk
  • Rabbi Israel, son-in-law of Chaim Hagar of Kosov
  • A daughter, who married Rabbi Yehuda Meir of Dinov
  • Rabbi Binyamin
  • Chava, who married Rabbi Aharon of Karlin the Younger
  • Another daughter, who married Rabbi Yosef David Landau of Olyka

References
  1. "רבי מרדכי -מקרמניץ ב"ר יחיאל מיכל מזלטשוב – אהלי צדיקים". zadikim.com. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
  2. Shapira, Ya'akov Leib. משפחות עתיקות בישראל (in Hebrew). p. 101.
  3. האתר), ישראל (מנהל. "הרה"ק רבי מרדכי מקרעמניץ זי"ע - בית הוראה אביר יעקב". abiryaakov.com (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2023-08-09.
  4. "המגיד מזלוטשוב - רבי יחיאל מיכל רבינוביץ". www.mytzadik.com. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
  5. "רבי נתן מברסלב". פורום המדרשות התורניות לבנות (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2023-08-09.
  6. m'Kremenets, Mordechai (1820). Siddur Tefilah Yeshorah (in Hebrew). Rodville.
  7. "רבי ישעיהו שור זצ"ל". Daily Torah (in Hebrew). 2021-10-03. Retrieved 9 Aug 2023.
  8. באש ובמים (תולדות רבי נתן מברסלב) (in Hebrew). Jerusalem: Jerusalem : Nachalat Tzvi Institute. 1996. p. 23.
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