Rabbi Aaron Yitzchak HaLevi Lieberman
Rabbi Aaron Yitzchak HaLevi Lieberman (born 1955) is a Shliach of the Rebbe and Rabbi of the Chabad community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and a member of the Special Beis Din for Kashrus of Lubavitcher Rabbonim.
Life History[edit | edit source]
Born in 1955 in Boro Park to his father Rabbi Alter Yissachar Dov Lieberman and his mother Mrs. Rivka, in a Chabad family that is also descended from the Admo"r Rabbi Chaim Halberstam, author of 'Divrei Chaim' of Sanz, and other holy tzaddikim.
Upon reaching marriageable age, he married his wife Mrs. Sheina Chana, daughter of the Chossid R' Shalom DovBer Pevzner.
He received his Rabbinical and Dayanut ordination from Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg and Rabbi Yisroel Yitzchak Pikarsky.
After his studies in Kollel Avreichim, he went out in 1981 together with his wife and three children on the Rebbe's Shlichus to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Over the years, he established a Semicha institute for Rabbinical studies and a Beis Medrash for Morei Hora'ah in the city.
In 2000, he founded with Rabbi Eduardo Davis the kashrus organization 'ORB Kashrus' which supervises production processes of products and factories throughout South Florida.
His wife passed away on Erev Sukkos 2013 at only age 59, and her funeral was delayed and took place in Crown Heights during Chol Hamoed Sukkos, 18 Tishrei, and she was buried in the Montefiore Cemetery.
He is currently married to Sima Feiga (widow of Chaim Shneur Zalman Itkin a"h).
In 2024, after the Crown Heights Badatz removed their kashrus certification from the meat plant in Postville, Iowa, he joined with Rabbis Shlomo Yehuda Segal and Gedalia Oberlander to establish a new kashrus organization called 'Special Beis Din for Kashrus of Lubavitcher Rabbonim KL', and in cooperation with the Vaad Hakashrus of Rabbi Menachem Meir Weissmandl and under the supervision of the Shliach Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Deren, they restored the 'Shechitas Lubavitch' kashrus certification to the plant.
Family[edit | edit source]
- His son-in-law, R' Levi Chanowitz.
- His son-in-law, R' Yosef Chaim Leibowitz - Florida.