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==Rebbe Shaul Yedidya Elazar Taub (1886β1947)== <!-- This section is linked from [[Mount of Olives]] --> [[File:Reb Shaul MODZITZER.jpg|left|120px]] Rebbe Shaul Yedidya Elazar Taub was born on 20 October 1886. He married the daughter of the Grand Rabbi of Lublin, Rabbi Avrohom Eiger, author of the Shevet MeYehuda. They had a son, [Shmuel Eliyahu], and a daughter. By the age of 19, he divorced her; the children, Shmuel Eliyahu and Golda were divided.His daughter was raised by her mother; his son in Rabbi Yisroel's home. He remarried to the daughter of the great kabbalist Rabbi Shaul Schwartz Rav of Stepantz in Poland, and by him, he learned and studied kabbalah. From his second wife, he had two sons and two daughters. His son, Rabbi Yehoshua Yecheskel, who was his right hand in all his Rabbinical subjects. Rabbi Yehoshua Yecheskel also printed his works on the "Hagada shel Pesach" under the name "Ishei Yisrael". Unfortunately, Rabbi Yehoshua Yecheskel was a very weak person physically, and he died at a very young age, a short time after his father (1952); so, though he was offered it, he refused to take over the Rabbinical throne of the Modzitz dynasty. But in later years, his only son, Grand Rabbi Yisrael Dovid Taub, and renewed the Modzitz dynasty in the United States in his shul in Flatbush. R. Shaul subsequently married the daughter of the Bochner Rav, a great-grandson of R. Chaim Sanzer. They had four children, two sons and two daughters. Rabbi Shaul Yedidya guided his Hasidim in Poland until September 1939, when he fled [[Poland]] due to [[Nazism|Nazi]] persecution. He travelled to [[Vilnius|Vilna]], [[Lithuania]], [[Russia]], and from there made his way to [[Japan]]. Eventually, with the help of some Modzitzer Hasidim, he and some family members reached the shores of [[San Francisco]], and then moved to [[Brooklyn, New York]], in 1940. It was during his stay in Brooklyn that Rebbe Shaul Yedidya Elazar became popular and helped rebuild Modzitz. He was a gifted songwriter, and wrote over 1,000 Hasidic melodies. He had an intense love for the Land of Israel, . He was unable to see the realization of his prediction, and he died on November 29, 1947, the day the [[United Nations|UN]] voted to [[1947 UN Partition Plan|create the State of Israel]]. He was the last person to be buried on the [[Mount of Olives]] until it was liberated in 1967. His teachings have been collected in the volumes of ''Imrei Shaul'' and ''Yisa Bracha''. He was succeeded by his oldest son, Rebbe Shmuel Eliyahu Taub, in Tel Aviv. {{clear}}
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