RADZYMIN

RADZYMIN, dynasty of ḥasidic ẓaddikim in central Poland. The founder of the dynasty, JACOB ARYEH BEN SOLOMON GUTERMAN OF RADZYMIN (1792–1874), was a pupil of the ẓaddikim Simḥah Bunem of Przysucha and Isaac Kalish of Worky (see warka ). Jacob Aryeh was rabbi in Rychwal and Radzymin. He became famous as a miracle worker and attracted a large ḥasidic followership. His teachings were published in Divrei Aviv (1924) and Bikkurei Aviv (1936). Jacob Aryeh's son, SOLOMON (d. 1903), followed his father in the rabbinate of Radzymin and in the ḥasidic leadership. The third ẓaddik of the Radzymin dynasty was AARON MENAHEM MENDEL (d. 1934). During World War I he moved to Warsaw, where he also remained after the war. He was active in Jewish communal affairs in Poland. He visited Ereẓ Israel in 1929 and on his initiative a separate section for women was established at the Western Wall. This served as a pretext for the Arabs in the bloody anti-Jewish riots which occurred in 1929. Aaron Menahem Mendel was the author of Ḥinnukh ha-Banim (1913) and Alim li-Terufah (1936). (Avraham Rubinstein)