Rav Boruch Halberstam Divrei Boruch

Rav Boruch Halberstam of Gorlitz was born in Rudnik, Poland, to Rav Chaim of Sanz and his second wife. At age fourteen, he married Pessel, the daughter of Rav Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum, the Yetev Lev of Sighet. In his early thirties, he was appointed Rav of Rudnik, and later Rav of Gorlitz. In 1886, after his wife’s passing, he married Lea, a granddaughter of the Bnei Yissoschor.