Rav Avrohom Yitzchok HaKohen Kahan zt"l
הרב אברהם יצחק בן אהרן דוד קאהן זצ"ל
Kislev 27 , 5757
Rav Avrohom Yitzchok HaKohen Kahan zt"l
Rav Avrohom Yitzchok Kahan (Kohn, Kahn) was the Toldos Aharon Rebbe. Born to Shaindel Berocha of Tzefas and named for his great-grandfather, Rav Avrohom Yitzchok Heller of Tzefas, Rav Avrohom Yitzchok and his family were forced to leave Eretz Yisrael in 1918, moving to Honiad in the Zibenbergen region of Romania. There he learned in the town’s Yeshiva, headed by Rav Avrohom Freund (father of Rav Moshe Aryeh Freund, later to head the Badatz in Yerushalayim). He eventually moved to the Yeshiva of Krulle, headed by Rav Yoel Teitelbaum, and moved with the Yeshiva to Satmar. He became very close to Rav Aharon (Arele) Roth, founder of Shomrei Emunim of Meah She’orim, and later married his daughter. When his mentor was niftar in 1947, Rav Avrohom Yitzchok became his successor. He authored Divrei Emuna. Following his petira, two of his sons became Rebbes. The younger son, Rav Duvid Kahn of Monsey, a talmid of the Satmar Rebbe, became the Toldos Aharon Rebbe. The elder son, Rav Shmuel Yaakov Kahn, a talmid of the Vizhnitzer Rebbe, became the Rebbe of a group that was named Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok after his father, whose main Bais Medrash is also in Meah She’orim, one block away from the Toldos Aharon building. Another son is a Rosh Yeshiva in Kiryas Yoel, New York. Rav Avrohom Yitzchok is said to have instructed his followers to learn the works of Rav Aharon HaLevi of Staroselye (Strashelye), which include Sha’arei HaYichud VeHaEmunah, Shaarei Avoda and Avodas HaLevi.



