R. Chaim Dov Halperin, Worslevi rabbi in Bnei Brak, dies at 47 after long illness

Rabbi Chaim Dov Halperin, the Worslevi Hasidic rabbi in Bnei Brak and head of the kibbutz at the Bohush yeshiva, has died after a severe illness that lasted six years. He was 47. The funeral arrangements had not yet been announced, and the outlet said it would update readers when the procession is set.

Halperin was born in Bnei Brak on 26 Adar 5739. He was the son of Rabbi Avraham Samson Shalom Halperin, the Worslevi Rebbe, and the grandson of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Shlomo Halperin. His mother was Rabbi Tova, daughter of Rabbi Yehoshua Heshel Brim, who headed Tiferet Yisrael of Ruzhin and served as an educator and principal in several Vizhnitz Hasidic schools and seminaries in Bnei Brak and Emmanuel.

At his brit, he was named after his grandfather, Rabbi Chaim Dov of Worslov, buried in Tiberias. He studied first in the junior division of Bohush, later in the yeshiva gedolah at Noam HaTorah in Bnei Brak under Rabbi Menachem Mendel Shafran, and then in Jerusalem at the Brisk yeshiva, where he learned from Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Soloveitchik. He was described as an outstanding Torah scholar with rare talent and constant diligence.

When he married Gital, a daughter of his uncle, the Bohush Rebbe, the couple built their home in Bnei Brak on Torah and Hasidic values. Over the years he was appointed head of the kibbutz at Bohush and rabbi for Worslevi Hasidim in Bnei Brak. Less than a month ago he married off a son to the daughter of Rabbi Moshe Natan Lemberger, son of the late Av Beis Din of Munkacs Bnei Brak. Despite his weakness, he came to the wedding with his last strength and rejoiced in it. He leaves behind a family line that includes children not yet married.