Chaim Zanvl Abramowitz

Yiddish: חיים זאנוויל אבראמאוויטש‎, Hebrew: חיים זנוויל אברהמוביץ, born 1902 – died 18 October 1995) was known as the Ribnitzer Rebbe (ריבניצער רבי‎), and considered a great Hasidic tzadik from Rybnitsa (present-day Transnistria, Moldova). Others, including singer Mordechai Ben David, who was one of the rabbi's close disciples, maintain that he was born in 1893, making him 102 when he died.^[1]

Tikkun Chatzos (midnight prayer service) in sackcloth and ashes regularly lasted 6–7 hours, sometimes stretching as long as 12. He cried so much during Tikkun Chatzos that when he was done, the tears and ashes mingled so that he was sitting in mud.^[3]

Isru Chag (Succos). He was believed to be 92 or 93 years old. He is buried in the Vizhnitzer Cemetery. Whilst he did not leave offspring, he is succeeded by his student Rabbi Duvid Yitschok Schick, who leads a congregation named Zicrhon Chaim in Boro Park. Nearly 30,000 people visited his gravesite on his 23rd yahrtzeit.^[4]