Dovid Bornsztain

Dovid Bornsztain (1876 – 17 November 1942 in Nasielsk, Poland. He was the eldest son of Rabbi Shmuel Bornsztain (the Shem MiShmuel) and his wife Yuta Leah. He had a younger brother, Chanoch Henoch, and at least one sister. At the time of his birth, his grandfather, Rabbi Avrohom Bornsztain, later known as the Avnei Nezer, was serving as Rav of Nasielsk. In 1883, when the Avnei Nezer moved to the city of Sochatchov to serve as that city's Rav, his son Rabbi Shmuel and his family accompanied him and lived in a separate house in the same town.

Young Dovid was taught privately by Rabbi Yitzchak Shlomo Lieberman of Ozorkow, but his primary teacher during his childhood was his grandfather, the Avnei Nezer. From him he learned both the revealed and hidden Torah, along with the Avnei Nezer's unique methodology for understanding the commentary of the Jewish sages, which formed the Hasidut of Sochatchov. Later he learned in his grandfather's yeshiva with students who were much older than he. (some date this event as late as 1910, after the death of the Avnei Nezer

World War II On Rosh Hashana 1939 the Nazis invaded Łódź — then home to the second-largest Jewish community in Europe — and proceeded to snatch men off the streets for forced labor. They found the Rebbe in his home and beat him, cutting off some of his beard. Then they forced him to clean the streets. After this episode, his Hasidim obtained forged documents for him and smuggled him into the Warsaw Ghetto, where he lived incognito. and he continued to conduct his tish every Shabbat.

He was the last person to be buried in the Gensha (Gęsia) Street cemetery in Warsaw,

Quotes "We humans chase over the world to find things: We climb high mountains; we descend to the depths of the sea; we trek to the wilderness and the desert. There is one place where we neglect to search — our heart. But it is there we will find God".

Notable Hasidim Rabbi Yehoshua Moshe Aronsohn, rabbi of Petach Tikva Rabbi Aryeh Tzvi Frumer Rabbi Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft

Rebbes of Sochatchov Avrohom Bornsztain, the Avnei Nezer (1838–1910) Shmuel Bornsztain, the Shem Mishmuel (1856–1926) Dovid Bornsztain (1876–1942) Chanoch Henoch Bornsztain (d. 1965) Menachem Shlomo Bornsztain (1934–1969) Shmuel Bornsztain (b. 1961)