Rabbi Shmiel Dovid Halberstam (), also known as the Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe, is the younger son and one of the successors of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, the previous Klausenberger Rebbe. He resides in Brooklyn, New York. Biography He is one of seven children born in his father's second marriage to Chaya Nechama Ungar, daughter of the Nitra Rav, Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Ungar.Landesman, Yeruchem. The Wedding that Changed Despair to Hope. Mishpacha, 11 November 2009, pp. 30-34. He was named after his maternal grandfather, who died during the Holocaust. Halberstam has five sisters and an older brother, Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Halberstam, who is the Sanzer Rebbe of Israel. He married Tzipora Weider, daughter of Rabbi Aharon Wieder, the Linzer Rav, who was a long-time dayan in the Klausenberger beis din (rabbinical court) in America.Donn, Yochonon. The Linzer Rav, Harav Aharon Wieder, zt"l. Hamodia American News, 25 March 2010, p. B55.
Rabbi Halberstam is the leader of North American operations for the Mifal HaShas Torah study network founded by his father, and honoree president of the Kolel Chibas Yerushalayim charity organization in the name of Reb Meir Baal HaNess.
He is known for his effusive and lengthy prayers.
See also Klausenberg (Hasidic dynasty) Sanz (Hasidic dynasty)
References
External links Sanz Klausenburg web-site, A collection of picture galleries of the rebbe and more. Grand Rebbe Shmuel Halberstam officiating over the tish celebrating the Jewish holiday of Purim, video taken in his synagogue in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn, New York.