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Chasidim of Radomsko
[Yiddish, Radomsker Chasidim] - A Chasidic
group founded by Shlomo Cohen Rabinovitch (1801-66), who had
attended
the yeshiva in Piotrkow Trybunalski, and then studied with
the tzaddik
Meir of Opatow. In 1834, he became a rabbi in Radomsko, and
from 1843
was a tzaddik, becoming one of the most popular in central
Poland.
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He was the author of Tiferet Shlomo [Hebrew,
Beauty of Solomon, 1867-69], published posthumously, and
also composed
Chasidic music. His son Abraham Isachar Dov (1843-92)
perpetuated his
teachings, and was the author of Chesed le-Avraham [Hebrew,
the Mercy of
Abraham, 1893-95). He was followed by Shlomo's grandson,
Yechezkel
(1864-1910), the author of Kneset Yecheskel [Hebrew,
Gathering of
Ezechiel, 1913]. The last of the dynasty, Shlomo Henoch
(?-1942),
founded the Keter Tora [Hebrew, The Torah's Crown] network
of yeshivas
and a beit midrash in Sosnowiec. He was killed along with
his family in
the Warsaw ghetto.
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After the war, this dynasty's followers joined
the Chasidim of Gora Kalwaria, commemorating the last
tzaddik of
Radomsko by founding a Keter Tora yeshiva in Bnei Brak, the
Chasidic
quarter of Tel Aviv.
(H.W./CM)
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