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1. Elimelech von Lyschansk

   Person · 1717–1787 · Rabbi, Rabbiner, Rabbis · Poland · 10 sources

   (1717–1786/87), Hasidic leader; founder of Hasidism in Galicia and Poland. The son of a wealthy village Jew in the district of Tykocin, Elimelekh was first drawn to Hasidism by his brother Meshulam Zusya (d. 1800), later…

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2. Mosche Chaim Luzzatto

   Person · 1707–1747 · Clergy, Gelehrter, Rabbi · Padua · 10 sources

   Jüdisch-italienischer Gelehrter, Rabbi, Dichter, Kabbalist

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3. Chajim b. Isaak

   Person · 1749–1821 · Rabbi, Rabbiner, Rabbis · Valozhyn (Belarus) · 9 sources

   (1749–1821), Torah scholar and rabbi; founder of the Volozhin yeshiva. Ḥayim was born in Volozhin, where his father, Yitsḥak, was a community leader. Ḥayim studied with Refa’el ha-Kohen and Aryeh Leib, author of Sha’agat…

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4. Nathan of Breslov

   Person · 1780–1845 · Rabbi, Rabbis · Nemyriv (Vinnyt︠s︡ʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine) · 8 sources

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5. ברנדיס, משה אברהם

   Person · 1755–1819 · Rabbis · Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) · 2 sources

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