Menachem Shlomo Bornsztain

Menachem Shlomo Bornsztain was born in 1934 in Jerusalem

Bornsztain was born in Jerusalem on 11 October 1934. His father was Chanoch Henoch Bornsztain, the rebbe of Sochatchov, and his mother Freidel came from the family of the Radomsk rebbes. He grew up in the Bayit VeGan neighborhood of Jerusalem.

He studied at the Kfar HaRoeh yeshiva and then at the Knesses Chizkiyahu yeshiva, which he joined in Zikhron Ya'akov in 1950. In 1957 he married Tova, the daughter of Rabbi Daniel Movshovitz of Tel Aviv. After his marriage he continued his studies in Torah institutions.

He became rabbi of the Sochatchov synagogue in Tel Aviv and, in 1965, rabbi of the Yad Eliyahu neighborhood. That year he also began to lead Kollel Keser Torah Radomsk in Bnei Brak. After his father died in 1965 he became the Sochatchover rebbe, and he later also became the rebbe of the Radomsk Hasidim who survived the Holocaust.

He also founded a Hasidic yeshiva in Bayit VeGan called the Sochatchov Yeshiva. On 10 August 1969 an army vehicle crashed into the taxi he was riding in, and he died the next day. He was buried on Har HaMenuchot in Jerusalem, and in 1987 his eldest son Shmuel became the Sochatchover rebbe.