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At the outbreak of World War I, Bornsztain was visiting a spa in
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Bornsztain was crowned second Sochatchover Rebbe following the death of his father in 1910. He was accepted by all the elder Hasidim of his father's court, including Rabbi Yoav Yehoshua of Kinczek and Rabbi Yitzchak Feigenbaum, the
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teacher throughout his childhood, and a close and long-lasting bond developed between the two. Even later in life, as the father of a large family, Shmuel regarded himself as his father's
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In 1919, Bornsztain chose to leave the tumult of the big city, which was taking its toll on his health as well as his ability to concentrate on his holy work, and relocated to
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with his family. Here he acted as a guide and advisor to his own
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during the time that his father was being supported by his father-in-law, as was the custom in those days. He spent his childhood in the towns of
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In 1874 Bornsztain married Yuta Leah
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Bornsztain also labored over the compilation and publication of his father's manuscripts. He published his father's voluminous
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and the first
Sochatchover Rebbe. He had one younger sister, Esther. Through his father's line, he was a descendant of the
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512:Avnei Nezer
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138:Predecessor
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259:Early life
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292:Kotzk
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