Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky

, founder of the Dushinsky Hasidic dynasty Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky was the only child of Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky and his second wife, Esther Neuhaus. His father was over 50 years old at the time of his birth. Yisrael Moshe was born in Chust, Ukraine, shortly after his father began serving as Rav of that city. Yisroel Moshe attended Talmud Torah Shomrei Hachomos. After his bar mitzvah, he began studying at his father's yeshiva, Yeshiva Beis Yosef Tzvi, which the latter had established on Shmuel HaNavi Street in Jerusalem. He later studied for rabbinical ordination under Rabbi Hanoch Padwa and Rabbi Eliezer Brand. He married the daughter of Rabbi Dovid Yehoshua Gross. The couple had two sons, Yosef Tzvi and Mordechai Yehuda, and three daughters. ==Rosh yeshiva and rabbinical leader==

After his marriage, his father asked him to begin delivering shiurim (Torah lectures) in the yeshiva. He was 28 years old when his father died in 1948. He took over the administration of the yeshiva and built it into a large Torah institution enrolling thousands of students. On a day that the court adjudicated a get (divorce) or chalitza (ceremony allowing a childless widow to remarry), he would fast. He was widely respected for his Torah knowledge, refined character, and caring personality. ==Death and legacy==

(foreground) in the Shaare Zedek Cemetery (visitors put pebbles on Jewish graves to show the dead are not forgotten) Dushinsky had ill health during his final years and underwent several surgeries. In February 2003 his health declined further and he was hospitalized. He was unable to attend the wedding of his grandson, son of Rabbi Mordechai Yehuda, on March 25; he died the next morning at 3:15 am in the presence of family and close students. This cemetery had been opened as a temporary burial ground during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and most of the graves had been moved to other, permanent cemeteries in the early 1950s. The grave of his father, who had died in 1948, had not been moved. Since the cemetery had long been closed to burials, Dushinsky paid a large amount to be buried next to his father. At the funeral, it was announced that his son, Yosef Tzvi, would succeed him as Grand Rabbi and head of the Dushinsky yeshiva. His Torah writings were published under the title Toras Maharim. ==Rebbes of Dushinsky==

• Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (1867–1948) • Rabbi Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky (1921–2003), son of Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky • Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, son of Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky ==References==