Linsk is the name of a Hasidic dynasty—a family of Hasidic leaders or rebbes and the group of their associated followers or chassidim—founded by Rabbi Avraham Chaim Horowitz of Linsk. Linsk is the Yiddish name of the town of Lesko in southern Poland. The Linsk dynasty is a branch of the Ropshitz dynasty.
Lineage
Rebbe Menachem Mendel Rubin of Linsk, the rabbi of Linsk. His father, Rabbi Yaakov, was the rabbi of Linsk before him.
* Rebbe Naftali Tzvi Horowitz of Ropshitz, son of Rebbe Mendel and his successor to the rabbinate of Linsk in addition to being the rabbi of Ropshitz.
** Rebbe Avraham Chaim Horowitz of Linsk, son of Rebbe Naftali Tzvi. His wife was the daughter of his uncle Rabbi Shmelke, rabbi of Romanand Bar, son of Rabbi Mendel of Linsk. Rebbe Sholom Rokeach of Belz held him in high esteem. He was briefly the rabbi of Linsk after his father, but a few years later.
Dynasty
Rebbe Menachem Mendel Horowitz of Linsk, son of Rebbe Avraham Chaim
* Rebbe Avraham Chaim Horowitz of Linsk, son of Rebbe Menachem Mendel. He married Miriam Yocheved, daughter of Rebbe Berish Beer of Litovisk of the Istrik–Litovisk dynasty. He was a disciple of Rebbe Sholom Rokeach of the Belz dynasty.
** Rebbe Meir Horowitz of Linsk, son of Rebbe Avraham Chaim. He succeeded his father as the rabbi of Linsk. He married Hinda, daughter of Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Horowitz, step-son of Rebbe Chaim Halberstam of Sanz.
*** Rebbe Menachem Mendel Horowitz of Linsk, son of Rebbe Meir. He married Chaya, daughter of Rebbe Avraham ShalomHalberstam of Stropkov. He was the last rebbe of Linsk. He was killed in the Holocaust in the Zasław concentration camp, as was his family.
*** Rebbe Yaakov Horowitz of Linsk, son of Rebbe Meir. He married Eidel, daughter of Rebbe Elimelech Rubin of Yavrov of the Ropshitz dynasty. He was a dayan in Linsk, later a rabbi and rebbe there, and died in the Holocaust.
**** Rebbe Elimelech Horowitz, Yavrover Rebbe of New York, son of Rebbe Yaakov. He married Rivka Hena, daughter of Rebbe Alter Eichenstein of Yaritshov of the Zidichov dynasty. After the Holocaust, he settled in New York: first in the East Side, Manhattan, then in Borough Park, Brooklyn. His son, Rabbi Yaakov, is the rabbi of the Telz congregation of Borough Park and the Rosh Yeshiva and founder of Yeshivas Beis Meir, named for his grandfather, Rebbe Meir of Linsk.
* Rabbi Yisrael Horowitz of Veislitz, son of Rebbe Menachem Mendel. He married the daughter of Rebbe Moshe Aba Beer of Litovisk of the Istrik–Litovisk dynasty. He was a disciple of Rebbe Chaim Halberstam of Sanz. He officiated as the rabbi of Veislitz.
** Rebbe Naftali Tzvi Horowitz of Veislitz, son of Rebbe Yisrael. He was the first rebbe in Toronto. An ohel was erected over his grave.
** Rebbe Yaakov Horowitz of Pietrikov, son of Rebbe Yisrael. He married the daughter of Rebbe Meir Menachem Finkler of Pietrikov of the Radoshitz dynasty. He died in the Holocaust.
