Term 1994 – present Name Shmuel Halberstam | Wife Tzipora Weider Mother Chaya Nechama Ungar | |
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Full name Shmiel David Halberstam Predecessor Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam Father Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam Role Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam's son Parents Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam | ||
Grandparents Tzvi Hirsch Halberstam | ||
Rabbi Shmiel Dovid Halberstam, (Hebrew: שמואל דוד הלברשטאם), also known as the Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe of Borough Park, is the younger son and one of the successors of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, the previous Klausenberger Rebbe. He resides in Brooklyn, New York.
Biography
He is one of seven children born in his father's second marriage to Chaya Nechama Ungar, daughter of the Nitra Rav, Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Ungar. He was named after his mother's father, who died during the Holocaust. His older brother, Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Halberstam, is the Sanzer Rebbe of Israel, and he also has five sisters. He married Tzipora Weider, daughter of Rabbi Aharon Wieder, the Linzer Rav, who was a long-time dayan in the Klausenberger beis din (rabbinical court) in America.
Rabbi Halberstam is the leader of North American operations for the Mifal HaShas Torah study network founded by his father, and honoree president of the Kolel Chibas Yerushalayim charity organization in the name of Reb Meir Baal HaNess.
He is known for his effusive and lengthy prayers.