Makova (Hasidic dynasty)

Grand Rabbi Rabbi Moshe Phorhand (1862–1944), first Makova Rebbe, author of Ohel Moshe[1] and responsa Ateret Moshe,[2] who was the rabbi of the city of Makó and Rosh Yeshiva of a yeshiva in the city, according to the format of the Hungarian Hasidic yeshivas. Rabbi Moshe died on 8 June 1944, during the Holocaust, in the city of Budapest. After efforts he was transferred to his town for burial.

• Rabbi Joshua Eliezer Phorhand (b. 1889)
• Rabbi Mordechai Phorhand (1885–1945)
• Chila Yachat Phorhand (b. 1876) - married Rabbi Ephraim Rosenfeld of Sendro
  • Sarah Leah Rosenfeld - married Grand Rabbi Moshe Natan Lemberger (1909–1982), second Makova Rebbe, a primary disciple of Rabbi Shimon Greenfeld.[3] He married Sarah Le’ah,[4] the granddaughter of Rabbi Moshe Phorhand, rabbi of Makó, and settled there and taught at his grandfather's yeshiva. He served as a dayan in the community from 1936. During World War II, he stayed in the Szeged ghetto, Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt camps. After the war, some of the survivors returned to Makó. Rabbi Moshe Nota rehabilitated and led the community and the yeshiva. In 1952 Rabbi Lemberger immigrated to Israel.[3] He first settled in Jerusalem and afterwards he was appointed rabbi of the Hasidic community in Kfar Ata (now Kiryat Ata) where he established the "Makova Yeshiva".[3] He died on Shabbat Vayera 20th of Marcheshvan 5743, 6 November 1982. His Torah Chidushim (novellae) and halachic responsa were published in the books of Ateret Moshe and Kli Golah. He began to write his novellae when he was in the Theresienstadt camp, working at the bakery there. He would write his novellae on the slips of paper the camp workers gave him in order to receive their allotted slices of bread.[5] These were the basis of his books. He disseminated Torah to thousands, left many novellae in the revealed and hidden aspects of Torah, in homily and chassidus.[5]
    • Grand Rabbi Shimon Lemberger, third and current Makova Rebbe, with the fall of the eastern bloc, the Mokava Chassidim set up a world committee to rebuild the large synagogue of the community in Makó and the three Jewish cemeteries in the city, headed by David Margali of Bnei Brak. The synagogue was reopened in 1988. The place attracts visitors and almost every Sabbath there are prayers. The rebbe visits him several times a year, especially on the day of the Hilula of the author of Ohel Moshe. Rabbi Shimon wrote a letter against Hassidim who admire the aingers and aantors: Carlebach, Werdyger and Koussevitzky.[6]
      • Sarah Leah Lemberger - married Aharon Mordechai Rokeach, son of Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach, Belzer Rebbe.
    • Grand Rabbi Ephraim Lemberger (d. 1997), Makova Rebbe of Boro Park.
      • Grand Rabbi Meir Yehezke Lembergerl, Makova Rebbe of Boro Park,
    • Grand Rabbi Avraham Yechiel Lemberger (d. 1995), Makova Rebbe of Bnei Brak.
      • Grand Rabbi Yisrael Yaakov Lemberger, Makova Rebbe of Bnei Brak
    • Grand Rabbi Menachem Mendel Lemberger (1947–2011), Makova Rebbe of Jerusalem.
      • Rabbi Yisrael Aharon Lemberger, Makova Rebbe of Jerusalem.
    • Rabbi Asher Anshel Lemberger (d. 2020), Makova Rebbe of Elad

• "Makava Rav at Grave of Shimon HaTzaddik". YouTube. 8 January 2015.