Rabbi Elimelech Szapira of Grodzhisk (1823 – 1892) was the leading Hasidic rebbe of his time in Poland. He was a chosid (follower) of the Rizhiner Rebbe. After the death of his father, the Sorof of Mogelnica, he assumed leadership of the chasidim, who eventually numbered ten thousand.
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1823
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29 March 1892 (aged 68)
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