Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok

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A gathering of Hasidim in Jerusalem

Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok is a

Shomer Emunim. It is led by its Rebbe, Rabbi Shmuel Yaakov Kohn.

Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok is one of the groups that make up the Edah HaChareidis. Until his death in May 2009, Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer served as both the halachic decisor of Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok and member of the Badatz of the Edah HaChareidis.

History

Main article:
Toldos Aharon (Hasidic dynasty)

Rabbi

Satmar's opposition to Zionism. While Rabbi Aharon's opposition to Zionism predated the publication of the Satmar Rav's book Vayoel Moshe
, the Satmar Rav's reasoning and Rabbi Aharon's reasoning for opposing Zionism are similar, if not identical.)

When Rabbi Aharon died, his son and his son-in-law both became rebbes in their own right. The dynastic chain being:

Rabbi Avrohom Yitzchok Kohn, the previous Toldos Aharon Rebbe, died during

beis medrash of Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok is also in Mea Shearim, one block away from the Toldos Aharon building. Both live in Jerusalem. Another son is a rosh yeshiva in Kiryas Joel, New York
.

Dress and customs

In Jerusalem, married men wear white and grey "Zebra" coats during the week and golden

yarmulke
. Unmarried boys wear a regular black coat with attached belt on weekdays, unlike the married men, who wear the "Zebra" style coat.

Married women cover their hair with scarves, without wearing wigs, and the standards of

tznius expected from them are the strictest among all Hasidic/Orthodox Jewish groups. As is customary in the traditional Jerusalemite community, unmarried girls have their hair in two braided pigtails, unlike most other Haredi communities, where the girls wear their hair in a simple ponytail
.

The Shomrei Emunim are characterized by fervent and visibly emotional prayer, and by a rigid lifestyle controlled largely by "takanos" - decrees written by the Rebbe. One such decree, for example, forbade wearing wool. (Jewish law forbids wearing anything that contains both wool and linen. Rabbi Aharon worried that it would be safest not to wear wool at all, in order to avoid the possibility of violating the law altogether.)[1] A strong emphasis is placed on the importance of full-time Torah study, and daily immersion in ritual baths.

Hasidic books of the Shomer Emunim, Toldos Aharon, and Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok groups

In addition to those books which are revered by all Hasidic Jews, the Toldos Aharon Hasidim particularly revere the books, Shomer Emunim, Shulchan HaTahor, and Taharas HaKodesh, by Rebbe Aharon Roth, and Divrei Emunoh by Rebbe Avrohom Yitzchok Kahn. The version of the prayer book used by Toldos Aharon Hasidim is called Brochoh u'Tehilloh. The version of the prayer book used by Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok Hasidim is called, Tehillas Avrohom Yitzchok. The previous Rebbe of Toldos Aharon, R' Avrohom Yitzchok, was said to have instructed his followers to learn the works of Rabbi Aharon HaLevi of Staroshelye (pronounced Strashelye), which include "Sha'arei HaYichud VeHaEmunoh," "Sha'arei Avoda," and "Avodas HaLevi." The Staroselyer Rebbe was a follower of the first Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. After the passing of R' Shneur Zalman, R' Aharon HaLevi started his own Chassidic following, an offshoot of Chabad, in Staroselye.

See also

References

  1. ^ See Sefer Takanos v'Hadrochos.

External links

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