Baruch Yehoshua Yerachmiel Rabinowicz

Baruch Yehoshua Yerachmiel Rabinowicz was born in 1914 in Siedlce

Rabinowicz was born in 1914 in Congress Poland. His father was Rabbi Nosson Dovid Rabinovich, the Partzever rebbe, and his mother was Yitta Spira. His maternal grandfather, Rabbi Moshe Leib Spira of Stryzow, belonged to the Munkacs dynasty.

He was engaged as a boy to the only daughter of Rabbi Chaim Elazar Spira of Munkacs. The couple married in 1933 in Munkacs. When his father-in-law died in 1937, he became rebbe of Munkacs and headed its yeshiva and rabbinical court.

At the start of World War II he was deported because of his Polish citizenship, but he escaped and moved to Budapest. In 1944 he obtained certificates and moved to the Land of Israel with his family. His wife died in Jerusalem in 1945.

In 1947 he remarried and became rabbi of São Paulo, Brazil. His son Moshe Leib was later crowned Munkacser rebbe, and a dispute grew between them. In 1963 he became chief rabbi of Holon.

After retiring he moved to Petah Tikva and founded a study hall there. In 1996 he published Divrei Nevonim and Binat Nevonim. He died on December 26, 1997.