SPINKA, JOSEPH MEIR WEISS OF
- SPINKA, JOSEPH MEIR WEISS OF
- SPINKA, JOSEPH MEIR WEISS OF (1838–1909), ẓaddik,
founder of a ḥasidic dynasty. The son of Samuel Ẓevi of Mukachevo
(Munkacs), Joseph Meir was the disciple of Shalom of belz , Mendel
of vizhnitsa , Isaac Eizik of zhidachov , and Ḥayyim
Halberstam of Zanz. On many occasions he visited Isaac of Zhidachov
and regarded himself as his successor. Renowned for his ecstatic
prayers, he also practiced extreme self-mortification. From 1876 he was
revered as a ẓaddik by thousands of followers.
His works are Imrei Yosef (1910–27), a commentary on the
Pentateuch in four volumes; Imrei Yosef (1931), sermons on
the festivals and their customs; Hakdamat Likkutei Torah
ve-ha-Shas (1911), sermons and an anthology of ḥasidic teachings;
Perush la-Haggadah shel Pesaḥ (1964); and Tefillot
u-Minhagim (1912).
His son, ISAAC EIZIK (1875–1944), was murdered by the
Nazis. He was an outstanding authority on halakhah and famous
as a cantor. From 1909 he too was a ẓaddik in Spinka. After
the outbreak of World War I, he took his family and his
retinue to Mukachevo, where he established his bet midrash
and yeshivah. There he remained for a few years and, as in Spinka, his
bet midrash became a center of learning and Ḥasidism. After
the war he moved to Selishche, where he also established a large
bet midrash that continued for 14 years. Isaac is the author
of Ḥakal Yiẓḥak. His grandson JACOB JOSEPH
WEISS, who was regarded as the most prominent leader of Spinka
Ḥasidism after the Holocaust, maintained a yeshivah in Jerusalem.
There were two additional ẓaddikim of Spinka Ḥasidism in
Israel, grandsons of Joseph Meir of Spinka.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Weiss, Imrei Yosef, 1 (1910), introd.; A. Feuer, Zikhron
Avraham (1924); A.S. Weiss, Pe'er Yosef (1934);
Ḥasidut Spinka ve-Admoreha (1958); J.L. Levin, Beit
Spinka (1958); A. Stern, Meliẓei Esh, 1 (1962), 206,
no. 120; S. Rozman, Zikhron Kedoshim (1968), 118–27.
(Esther (Zweig) Liebes)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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