Avraham Moshe of Peshischa

Avraham Moshe was born in Przysucha around 1800. In his earliest years, like his father, he was recognized as an Illui (child prodigy). As a young child, he would allegedly spend many hours daily in the nearby forest reciting Psalms in loud tears. This was interpreted by his father's Hasidim that Avraham Moshe had the spark of King David, which was partially motivated by the fact that Avraham Moshe was a member of the Davidic line through Rashi. At 16 he married Braindel Faiga Raphaels, the maternal granddaughter of the first Grand Rabbi of Peshischa, Yaakov Yitzchak Rabinowicz of Peshischa. At first, his father wanted him to be a merchant and thought the burden of the rabbinic position would be too much for Avraham Moshe to handle, yet after much pressure from the Hasidim of Peshischa, Avraham Moshe began to take up rabbinic positions. After his father's death, the less radical of his father's pupils such as Israel Yitzhak Kalish, Yaakov Aryeh Guterman and Shraga Fayvel Dancyger supported the succession of Avraham Moshe, while the more radical of his father's followers, supported Menachem Mendel of Kotzk. At first, Avraham Moshe refused the position to avoid a schism in the community, but after much pressure from his father's followers he agreed. Ultimately Avraham Moshe's died only a year later during the seventh night of Hanukkah in 1828 in the town of Biała Rawska, on his way from Warsaw to Przysucha. After his death, his followers adopted Israel Yitzhak Kalish as Avraham Moshe's successor, who chiefly incorporated his new followers into Vurka Hasidism. Avraham Moshe had two children who were orphaned at a young age and partially raised by Israel Yitzhak Kalish. Avraham Moshe's son, Tzvi Hersh Mordechai Bonhardt headed his own Hasidic court in Przysucha and married Tziporah Kalish, daughter of Israel Yitzhak Kalish. Avraham Moshe's daughter, Sarah Hadas Bonhardt married Fischel Samuel Heller, the great-grandson of Chaim Chaika of Amdur and the Rosh Yeshiva in Przysucha.[1][2][3]