Koidanov (Hasidic dynasty)

Koidanov (also spelled Koidenov) is a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Perlow (alternately: Solomon Ḥayyim Perlow) in 1833 in the town of Koidanov (present-day Dzyarzhynsk, Belarus). According to the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, Koidanov was the smallest of the three Lithuanian Hasidic dynasties, the others being Slonim and Karlin-Stolin. On the eve of World War II, its centers of influence were in the regions of Koidanov and Minsk. After its Rebbes and most of its Hasidim were murdered in the Holocaust, the dynasty was re-established in 1948 in Tel Aviv, where it thrives to this day.

The Koidanov dynasty represents a branch of the Karlin-Stolin dynasty and a continuation of the Lechovitch dynasty. The founder of the Koidanov dynasty was Shlomo Chaim (1797–1862), the son of Rabbi Aharon of Lyakhavichy (Lechovitch) (c.1772–1800) and grandson of Rabbi Mordechai of Lechovitch (c. 1742–1810). According to the Revision List of 1916, his family name was Malovich or Malovitsky. On his mother's side, Shlomo Chaim was the grandson of Rabbi Asher Perlow of Karlin and the great-grandson of Rabbi Nachum Twersky of Makarov.

Shlomo Chaim's father died when he was 3 years old and he was raised by his paternal grandfather, Rabbi Mordechai of Lechovitch, until the age of 13. Rabbi Mordechai arranged his grandson's engagement to a granddaughter of both Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin and Rabbi Asher Perlow of Karlin, and he was married the same day his grandfather died, 18 January 1810 (13 Shevat 5570). After his marriage he moved into the house of his wife's grandfather, Rabbi Asher Perlow, with whom he studied religious topics. He took on his father-in-law's surname, which was also his mother's maiden name.

Shlomo Chaim was mentored by his uncle, Rabbi Noah of Lechovitch, who led the yeshiva in that town. He also studied with the Rebbes of Mezhibuz, Apta, Chernobyl, and Ruzhin, and the sons of the Rebbe of Zlotshov. He moved to the town of Koidanov in the 1820s. When his uncle, Rabbi Noah of Lechovitch, died in 1833, the latter's Hasidim asked Perlow to become their Rebbe and he agreed. He also established a Koidanov community in Tiberias.

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