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style="font-size:125%;background: #ADD8E6; color: #000000;"><div class="fn">Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Yehoshua_Rokeach.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Yehoshua_Rokeach.jpg/220px-Yehoshua_Rokeach.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="302" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Yehoshua_Rokeach.jpg/330px-Yehoshua_Rokeach.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Yehoshua_Rokeach.jpg/440px-Yehoshua_Rokeach.jpg 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="864" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Title</th><td class="infobox-data">Second Belzer Rebbe</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ADD8E6; color: #000000;">Personal</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Yehoshua Rokeach</div><br />1825</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Religion</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Rivka Miriam (Daughter of R' Shmuel Ashkenazi) , Daughter of R' Avrohom Yehoshua Heschel of Bazilia</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Shmuel of <a href="/wiki/Sokal" title="Sokal">Sokal</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Yissachar_Dov_Rokeach_(third_Belzer_rebbe)" title="Yissachar Dov Rokeach (third Belzer rebbe)">Yissachar Dov Rokeach</a><br />Naftoli of Navry<br />Arye Leybush of Magrov and <a href="/wiki/Rawa_Ruska" class="mw-redirect" title="Rawa Ruska">Rawa Ruska</a><br />Rabbi Shimon Yitzchak Meir of <a href="/wiki/Radekhiv" title="Radekhiv">Radekhiv</a> and <a href="/wiki/Radymno" title="Radymno">Radymno</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Rabbi Sholom Rokeach (father)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ADD8E6; color: #000000;">Jewish leader</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data">Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Sholom_Rokeach" title="Sholom Rokeach">Sholom Rokeach</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data">Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Yissachar_Dov_Rokeach_(third_Belzer_rebbe)" title="Yissachar Dov Rokeach (third Belzer rebbe)">Yissachar Dov Rokeach</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Began</th><td class="infobox-data">1856</td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Ended</th><td class="infobox-data">1894</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Main work</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Ohel Yehoshua</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Dynasty</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Belz_(Hasidic_dynasty)" title="Belz (Hasidic dynasty)">Belz</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Rabbi <b>Yehoshua Rokeach</b> (1825 – February 3, 1894), known as the <i><b>Mitteler Ruv</b></i>, was the second <a href="/wiki/Rebbe" title="Rebbe">Rebbe</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Belz_(Hasidic_dynasty)" title="Belz (Hasidic dynasty)">Belz</a> <a href="/wiki/Hasidic_Judaism" title="Hasidic Judaism">Hasidic</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_Hasidic_dynasties" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Hasidic dynasties">dynasty</a>. He combined Torah scholarship with practical common sense to guide thousands of Hasidim and to fight the <a href="/wiki/Haskalah" title="Haskalah">Haskalah</a> ("Enlightenment") movement that was making inroads in Jewish communities in <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> during the nineteenth century. His pioneering activities included founding the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Machzikei_Hadas_(organization)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Machzikei Hadas (organization) (page does not exist)">Machzikei Hadas</a> organization. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yehoshua_Rokeach&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach was the youngest of five sons of Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Sholom_Rokeach" title="Sholom Rokeach">Sholom Rokeach</a> (the <i>Sar Shalom</i>), founder of the Belz dynasty. His eldest brother was named Elazar.<sup id="cite_ref-mitt_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mitt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father was his primary teacher.<sup id="cite_ref-mitt_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mitt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Yehoshua married a granddaughter of the <a href="/wiki/Apter_Rov" class="mw-redirect" title="Apter Rov">Apter Rov</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and had five sons and four daughters. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leadership">Leadership</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yehoshua_Rokeach&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Leadership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The notion of a son succeeding a father as <a href="/wiki/Rebbe" title="Rebbe">Rebbe</a> was uncommon at that point in the development of the <a href="/wiki/Hasidic_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Hasidic movement">Hasidic movement</a>; usually the Rebbe was succeeded by a close disciple.<sup id="cite_ref-mitt_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mitt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For two years before his death, the <i>Sar Shalom</i> had spent several hours each day talking with his youngest son and suggesting that he should be his successor. But after the <i>Sar Shalom</i> died, on September 10, 1855, Yehoshua was unwilling to step ahead of his four older brothers to become Rebbe. From 1855 to 1857, Belz Hasidut slowly crumbled without a central leader and many Hasidim defected to other Rebbes.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Finally, on <a href="/wiki/Rosh_Hashana" class="mw-redirect" title="Rosh Hashana">Rosh Hashana</a> 1857, Yehoshua decisively grasped the reigns of leadership by entering the central Belz synagogue for the prayer services and seating himself in the rebbe's chair by the eastern wall. He reigned as Rebbe from 1857 to 1894. </p><p>Under his leadership the <i>yoshvim</i> (learners) program of Belz expanded significantly. Belz encouraged married men to spend their days immersed in <a href="/wiki/Torah" title="Torah">Torah</a> study and prayer in the central Belz <a href="/wiki/Synagogue" title="Synagogue">synagogue</a>. Their meals and lodgings were provided by local businessmen. Some men remained in the program without returning home for months at a time. </p><p>Rokeach led his Hasidim with both deep erudition and common sense. Every <a href="/wiki/Yom_Kippur" title="Yom Kippur">Yom Kippur</a> afternoon, for example, he would walk through the aisles of the Belz synagogue, intently scanning the faces of all the worshippers. Those who wondered about this practice were answered when he once spotted someone about to faint from the weakness of the fast. The Rebbe pulled a piece of cake out of his pocket and immediately fed it to the ill man. </p><p>Rokeach battled the <i><a href="/wiki/Haskalah" title="Haskalah">Haskalah</a></i> movement that sought to introduce modernity and compromise in the Torah community. He often defended the Torah way of life to the leaders of the Haskalah's <a href="/w/index.php?title=Shomer_Yisrael&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shomer Yisrael (page does not exist)">Shomer Yisrael</a> organization.<sup id="cite_ref-YIVO_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-YIVO-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On one occasion, a leader of Shomer Yisrael asked him, "It isn’t right to be extreme and keep to the side of Hasidut or to the side of assimilation. What is wrong with taking the middle path?" The Rebbe responded, "Who walks at the side of the road? People! And who goes in the middle? Horses!" </p><p>To strengthen Torah Jewry against the inroads of Haskalah, the Rebbe helped found the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Machzikei_Hadas_(organization)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Machzikei Hadas (organization) (page does not exist)">Machzikei Hadas</a> organization in 1878 and the Machazikei Hadas newspaper,<sup id="cite_ref-YIVO_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-YIVO-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> both of which still exist in the Belzer community.<sup id="cite_ref-mitt_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mitt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Final_months">Final months</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yehoshua_Rokeach&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Final months"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Yehoshua_Rokeach,_gravestone.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Yehoshua_Rokeach%2C_gravestone.jpg/200px-Yehoshua_Rokeach%2C_gravestone.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="292" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Yehoshua_Rokeach%2C_gravestone.jpg/300px-Yehoshua_Rokeach%2C_gravestone.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Yehoshua_Rokeach%2C_gravestone.jpg/400px-Yehoshua_Rokeach%2C_gravestone.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1214" data-file-height="1770" /></a><figcaption>His tombstone in Belz</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1894 Rokeach traveled to <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a> to visit a specialist and undergo an operation. The operation was deemed a success,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the Rebbe died on the train en route to Belz a short while later, at the age of 69.<sup id="cite_ref-mitt_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mitt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was succeeded as Rebbe by his second son, <a href="/wiki/Yissachar_Dov_Rokeach_(third_Belzer_rebbe)" title="Yissachar Dov Rokeach (third Belzer rebbe)">Yissachar Dov Rokeach</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mitt_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mitt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rebbes_of_Belz">Rebbes of Belz</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yehoshua_Rokeach&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Rebbes of Belz"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li>Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Sholom_Rokeach" title="Sholom Rokeach">Sholom Rokeach</a> (1779–1855)</li> <li>Rabbi <b>Yehoshua Rokeach</b> (1825–1894)</li> <li>Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Yissachar_Dov_Rokeach_(third_Belzer_rebbe)" title="Yissachar Dov Rokeach (third Belzer rebbe)">Yissachar Dov Rokeach</a> (1854–1926)</li> <li>Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Aharon_Rokeach" title="Aharon Rokeach">Aharon Rokeach</a> (1877–1957)</li> <li>Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Yissachar_Dov_Rokeach_(fifth_Belzer_rebbe)" title="Yissachar Dov Rokeach (fifth Belzer rebbe)">Yissachar Dov Rokeach</a> (b. 1948)</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yehoshua_Rokeach&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agudat_Israel" class="mw-redirect" title="Agudat Israel">Agudat Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belz" title="Belz">Belz</a> (town in Poland/Ukraine)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belz_Beis_HaMedrash_HaGadol" class="mw-redirect" title="Belz Beis HaMedrash HaGadol">Belz Beis HaMedrash HaGadol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belz_(Hasidic_dynasty)" title="Belz (Hasidic dynasty)">Belz (Hasidic dynasty)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Machzikei_Hadas_(organization)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Machzikei Hadas (organization) (page does not exist)">Machzikei Hadas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moshe_Greenwald" title="Moshe Greenwald">Moshe Greenwald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pupa_(Hasidic_dynasty)" title="Pupa (Hasidic dynasty)">Pupa (Hasidic dynasty)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yehoshua_Rokeach_of_Machnovka" title="Yehoshua Rokeach of Machnovka">Yehoshua Rokeach of Machnovka</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yehoshua_Rokeach&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-mitt-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-mitt_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mitt_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mitt_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mitt_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mitt_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mitt_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Padwa, Rabbi Akiva Osher. "Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach, the 'Mittler' Belzer Rav, <i>zt"l</i>, in honor of his 118th <i>yahrtzeit</i>, 23 Shevat". <i><a href="/wiki/Hamodia" title="Hamodia">Hamodia</a></i> Magazine, February 16, 2012, pp. 5-6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Shulem Hanstater, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.academia.edu/37142207/%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%96%D7%90_-_%D7%A7%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%98%D7%9C_%D7%92_%D7%93">בעלזא - קפיטל ג ד</a> (in Hebrew) p. 5</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-YIVO-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-YIVO_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-YIVO_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFAssaf" class="citation web cs1">Assaf, David. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Belz_Hasidic_Dynasty">"Belz Hasidic Dynasty"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/YIVO_Encyclopedia_of_Jews_in_Eastern_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe">YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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