Avrohom Yaakov Friedman

Avrohom Yaakov Friedman (August 21, 1928 – January 1, 2013)

He was born in Vienna, the city to which his father had escaped during World War I together with his great-uncle, Avrohom Yaakov Friedman, the third Sadigura Rebbe. When he was 5 years old, he and his parents moved to Przemyśl, Poland, where his father opened a Hasidic court He was a close student of Yehoshua Menachem Ehrenberg, who gave him rabbinic ordination. They had one son and two daughters.

Accession to Rebbe

Upon his father's death on 29 Nisan 1979, Friedman became the leader of the Sadigura Hasidim. He was also inducted into the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah in his father's stead. He retained his father's court on Pinkus Street in Tel Aviv, and established an outreach center there for secular Jewish youth. In 2005 he relocated his court to a large edifice on Gutmacher Street in Bnei Brak. expressing his strong opposition to the Oslo Accords and Israel's unilateral disengagement plan and visiting Israeli settlements in the West Bank to bolster the Jews living there. but his will was read, naming his only son, Yisrael Moshe Friedman, av beis din of the Sadigura rabbinical court in London, as his successor. He was buried beside his father in the Ruzhiner section of the Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery in Tel Aviv.

Lineage of Sadigura dynastic leadership Yisrael Friedman of Ruzhyn, Ruzhiner Rebbe (1797–1850). Re-established his court in Sadigura in 1842. Sholom Yosef Friedman (1813–1851), son of Yisrael Friedman of Ruzhyn. Rebbe from 1850 to 1851. Avrohom Yaakov Friedman (1820–1883), son of Yisrael Friedman of Ruzhyn. Rebbe from 1851 to 1883. Yisrael Friedman of Sadigura (1852–1907), son of Avrohom Yaakov Friedman of Sadigura. Rebbe from 1883 to 1907. Aharon of Sadigura (1877–1913), son of Yisrael Friedman of Sadigura. Rebbe from 1907 to 1913. Avrohom Yaakov Friedman (1884–1961), son of Yisrael Friedman of Sadigura. Rebbe from 1907 to 1961. Mordechai Sholom Yosef Friedman (1897–1979), son of Aharon of Sadigura. Rebbe from 1961 to 1979. Avrohom Yaakov Friedman (1928–2013), son of Mordechai Sholom Yosef of Sadigura. Rebbe from 1979 to 2013. Yisrael Moshe Friedman (1955-2020), son of Avrohom Yaakov of Sadigura. Rebbe from 2013 to 2020. Yitzchok Yehoshua Heshel Friedman (1996–present), son of Yisroel Moshe of Sadigura. Rebbe since August 2020.