Rabbi Yisrael Hillel Westreich ABD Grybow

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Rabbi Yisrael Hillel Westreich, ABD Grybow

Hebrew: הרב ר' ישראל הלל וסטרייך, אבד''ק ברעזקא וגריבוב, Yiddish: וועסטרייך, ABD Grybow
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Birthplace: Brzesko, brzeski, małopolskie, Poland
Death: May 27, 1846 (51-60)
Rymanów, krośnieński, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland
Place of Burial: Rymanów, krośnieński, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland
Immediate Family:

Son of R' Yosef Yoske Westreich, A.B.D Brzesko
Husband of Fradel Westreich
Father of Rabbi Yosef Yoske Westreich, ABD Kanczuga and Sara Liba Klagsbrun

Occupation: Rabbi
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About Rabbi Yisrael Hillel Westreich ABD Grybow

Av Beit Din (Chief Rabbi) of Grybow. R. Yisrael Hillel studied under Rabbi Zvi Hirsch "Charif" Heller, A.B.D. Alt-Oben and R' Aryey Leibish Lipschutz, (ABD Krzeszow, Vishnitsa and Brzesko (Brigel). He was also a student of the Rabbi Klonimus Kalman Halevi Epstein, Ma'or Vashemesh and assisted in publishing the first edition of the latter's famous work the Maor Vashemesh in 1842. He was a close friend of Admor Chaim Halberstam, [Divrei Chaim, of Sanz] and as youths they went together to see R' Naftali Zvi Horowitz, Admor Ropczyce.

Acc. to death records R' Yisrael Hillel was the son-in-law of R. Shaul Frankel-Teomim of Siennawa from the rabbinical Frankel-Teomim family. R' Yisrael Hillel was a brother-in-law of Yosef Segel-Lichtig HaLevi (descendant of Rabbi David Halevi Segal, the "Turei Zahav" (Taz)), but it is unknown how.

R' Yisrael Hillel passed away in Rimanov on the 2nd of Sivan 1846 and was buried near the Ohel of R. Mendele Rimanover.

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Rabbi Yisrael Hillel Westreich ABD Grybow's Timeline

1790
1790
Brzesko, brzeski, małopolskie, Poland
1820
1820
Grybów, nowosądecki, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
1821
1821
Grybów, nowosądecki, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
1846
May 27, 1846
Age 56
Rymanów, krośnieński, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland
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Rymanów, krośnieński, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland