Menachem Mendel of Rimanov

Menachem Mendel of Rimanov
Tombstone of Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Rimanov.
TitleMenachem Mendel of Rimanov
Personal life
Born1745 (1745)
Przytyk, Poland
DiedMay 29, 1815(1815-05-29) (aged 69–70)
Rymanów, Poland
BuriedRymanów, Poland
SpouseRivke
ChildrenRabbi Nosson Leib, Rabbi Yisrael Yaakov of Bilyi Kamin, Feige, Chana
Parents
  • Yosef Szydlowski (father)
  • Liba Spira (mother)
DynastyRimenov
Religious life
ReligionJudaism
Jewish leader
SuccessorRebbe Tzvi Hersch HaKohen
Main workMenachem Zion
DynastyRimenov

Menachem Mendel of Rimanov also known as Mendele Rimanover (Alt. spellings: Riminov, Rimanev) (1745–May 29, 1815) was a famous Hasidic Rebbe and one of the first five distributors of the Hasidic movement in Poland and Galicia together with Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin, Rabbi Yisrael Hopstein, Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of Apta, and Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Epstein.

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