Joseph Babad
Deceased Person
1801 – 1874
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Who was Joseph Babad?
Joseph ben Moses Babad was a rabbi, posek and Talmudist, best known for his work, the Minchat Chinuch, a commentary on the Sefer Hachinuch.
Babad served as rabbi at Bohorodczany, Zbarizh, Sniatyn, and Tarnopol where in 1857 he was appointed as Av Beit Din, a position he held for the rest of his life.
He studied under Chaim Halberstam, the Sanzer Rov, and enjoyed close relationships with the various Hasidic leaders of Galicia.
Rabbi Babad's first wife is not known; he later married the sister of Chaim Halberstam, and on her death he again remarried.
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