Naftali Halberstam

Naftali Tzvi Halberstam was born in Bobowa, Poland in 1931 (25 Sivan, 5691) to Shlomo Halberstam, the third Bobover Rebbe.[1][2] His mother and two siblings were murdered in the Holocaust, and after the war, Naftali's father Shlomo had arranged for him to go to Mandatory Palestine. Shlomo remained in Europe, and Naftali was unsure if his father had survived the war.

Naftali Tzvi Halberstam lived for several years in Israel, where he received his rabbinical ordination. In 1951, after discovering that his father had survived the war and relocated to New York in the late 1940s, he joined him there. Upon his father's death in 2000, he became the Grand Rebbe of Bobov in Borough Park, Brooklyn. He died on March 23, 2005 (12 Adar, 5765).Rabbi Naftali Halberstam was buried next to his father in Floral Park Cemetery, New Jersey.

Rabbi Naftali Halberstam's wife, Rebbetzin Hesa, died on May 15, 2011 (11 Iyar, 5771) aged 80.

Rabbi Naftali Halberstam left no sons, only two daughters. His older daughter is married to Yehoshua Rubin, the current Bobov-45 dayan (judge). His younger daughter is married to the first Bobov-45 Rebbe, Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger Shlita.

1. Shlomo Halberstam (1847–1905) grandson of the Sanzer Rebbe, Chaim Halberstam
2. Ben Zion Halberstam (1874–1941)
3. Shlomo Halberstam (1907–2000)
4. Naftali Halberstam (1931–2005)
5. Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam (b.1955), current Rebbe, younger son of Shlomo Halberstam

• Satmar succession feud
• Klausenburg (Hasidic dynasty)
• Ropshitz (Hasidic dynasty)
• Sanz (Hasidic dynasty)

• Wedding video with Grand Rabbi Naftali Halberstam - Part 1, Part 2
• Several Thousand Attend Grand Rabbi's Funeral in Brooklyn March 24, 2005