Mordechai Dovid Unger

Mordechai Dovid Unger
Rebbe of Bobov - 45
Term	23 March 2005 – present
Full name	Mordechai Duvid Unger
Born	1954 New York
Father	Yaakov Yitzchok Unger
Wife	Rivka Halberstam

Mordechai Duvid Unger (מרדכי דוד אונגער) was born in 1954 to Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Unger of Dombrov.^[1] He is the younger son-in-law of the late Grand Rabbi Naftali Zvi Halberstam, the fourth of Bobover Rebbe, and the second to oldest grandson of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam, the third Bobover Rebbe.

Following the death of his father-in-law, Grand Rabbi Naftali Zvi Halberstam, in 2005, a large part of the Bobov Chasidim favored him as his successor. He is currently Bobover - 45 Rebbe (45 - אדמו"ר מבאבוב), (meaning: the Bobover Rebbe of 45th street - where the center of his community is located), and the other son-in law, Rabbi Yehoshua Rubin, is Bobover - 45 Rav (אבד"ק באבוב - 45

1. Current: Rabbi Mordechai dovid unger (b.1954) as Bobover - 45 Rebbe

Rebbes of Bobov

1. Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam (1847–1905) grandson of the Sanzer Rebbe, Rabbi Chaim Halberstam
2. Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam (1874–1941)
3. Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam (1907–2000)
4. Rabbi Naftali Halberstam (1931–2005)
5. Current: Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger (b.1954) as Bobov 45 Rebbe

See also

• Chaim Halberstam
• Bobowa (in Poland)
• Borough Park, Brooklyn

References

1. Rebbes of Bobov: Ben Zion Halberstam, Mordechai Dovid Unger, Naftali Halberstam, Shlomo Halberstam. General Books. 2010. ISBN 9781157267386.