Ben Zion Halberstam, was the second Bobov Rebbe

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. He was killed by the Nazis in 1941.
Halberstam was born in Bikofsk

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 in 1874. His father was Shlomo Halberstam (1847–1905), the first Rebbe

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 of Bobov, and a scion of the Divrei Chaim

Chaim Halberstam

Chaim Halberstam of Sanz , known as the Divrei Chaim after his magnum opus on halakha, was a famous Hasidic Rebbe and the founder of the Sanz Hasidic dynasty....

 of Sanz (1798–1876). Upon his father's death Halberstam succeeded him as Rebbe. He wrote a commentary on the Torah

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 called Kedushas Tzion.

Lvov, where Halberstam then lived, fell under Nazi control in July, 1941.