Ger (Hasidic dynasty)

Ger, or Gur is a Hasidic movement. Origin and center of the movement was up to the Shoah, the small Polish town of Góra Kalwaria, whose Hebrew name " Gur ", the name of the dynasty is derived.

Today the movement has its center in Jerusalem, where the besiegers Rebbe lives. The Demolisher rabbinical dynasty comes from the family age. The founder of this group was Yitzchak Meir Alter (or Rothenberg, 1799-1866 ), known as the Chidushei HaRim, after his Torah work of the same title. His grandson, R. Abraham Mordechai Age (1866-1948, Imre Emet called ), was the third Gerrer Rebbe and escaped in 1940 with three of his sons to Palestine.

Almost all Gerrer Hasidim ( about 200,000 ) came in the Shoah killed, but the fact that the Gerrer Rebbe and three of his sons ( Yisrael age, Simcha Bunim age and Pinchas Menachem age ) survived, the movement could be built in Israel again.

The vast majority of the Gerrer Hasidim living in Israel, where they dominate the view expressed in the Knesset, party Agudat Jisra'el. Large communities in Israel there next to the haredi Bnei Brak and Jerusalem centers in Ashdod in the south, in Arad in the Negev and at Hazor in Galilee.

There are also significant communities of Gerrer Hasidim in Antwerp, London and New York.

Gerrer Hasidim wear so-called " Three-Quarter Pants" (ie trousers that reach to mid-calf ), a caftan and a stiff cloth hat. On the Sabbath and Jewish holidays the married men wear a high round fur cap, the Spodik (not to be confused with the much flatter Schtreimel, which is supported by other Hasidic groups). The Spodik is now regarded by many as characteristic of the Gerrer Hasidim, this type of fur hat, however, was carried before the Shoah by all Hasidic groups in Poland.