Rav Yitzchok Zelig Morgenstern zt"l
הרב יצחק זאליג בן חיים ישראל מרגנשטרן זצ"ל
Cheshvan 3 , 5700
Known As: Sokolover Rebbe
Father's Name: Chaim Yisrael Morgenstern
Relatives: Rav Chaim Yisrael Morgenstern of Pilov
Rav Yitzchok Zelig Morgenstern zt"l
Rav Yitzchok Zelig Morgenstern, the Sokolover Rebbe, was born in Kotzk, the great-grandson of the Kotzker Rebbe. Married at the age of eighteen, he became Rav of Sokolov, a town near Shedlitz, at the age of thirty. There he established the Yeshiva Bais Yisrael. In 1905, he succeeded his father as the Rebbe of Pilov. After a visit to Eretz Yisroel in 1924, he exhorted his followers to leave the Diaspora and settle the Land. After the outbreak of World War II, he moved to Otwock, a village outside Warsaw. His eldest son, the Rav of Wengrov, was stabbed to death by the Germans.

