Linsk (Hasidic dynasty)

Linsk (Yiddish: לינסק‎ Linsk) is the name of a Hasidic dynasty—a family of Hasidic leaders or rebbes and the group of their associated followers or chassidim—founded by Rabbi Avraham Chaim Horowitz of Linsk (c. 1789 or c. 1792 – 1831). Linsk is the Yiddish name of the town of Lesko in southern Poland.

The Linsk dynasty is a branch of the Ropshitz dynasty.

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