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Shmuel Bornsztain

Shmuel Yitzchok Bornsztain is a rabbi who has served as the sixth Rebbe of the Sochatchov Hasidic dynasty since 1987.

born 1961Sixth Rebbe of SochatchovReopening Yeshivat Avnei NezerTeaching the Shem Mishmuel

Occupation: rabbi
Education: Ponevezh Yeshiva

Shmuel Bornsztain was born in 1961 in Jerusalem

Bornsztain was born in 1961 in Tel Aviv. His father, Rabbi Menachem Shlomo Bornsztain, was Rebbe of Sochatchov and Radomsk and rabbi of the Yad Eliyahu neighborhood. His father was killed in a car accident in 1969.

He studied at the Ponevezh Yeshiva. In the early 1980s he married Rivka, daughter of Rabbi Eliyahu Shternbuch and granddaughter of Rabbi Boruch Hager of Seret-Vizhnitz. After a short time in Antwerp, he moved to the Bayit VeGan neighborhood of Jerusalem.

In 1987 elders of the Hasidim crowned him Rebbe of Sochatchov. In 1988 he reopened his father's yeshiva as Yeshivat Avnei Nezer, named after the dynasty's founder. He leads the community from Bayit VeGan, and his teachings are printed in weekly sheets and in an annual booklet.

He also oversees the community's synagogues in Tel Aviv and Bnei Brak. He later set up a beis midrash and kollel in Beit Shemesh for the growing local community.