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Letter signed by R. Isaac Friedman (1903-1992), Admor of Bohusi Bnai Berak. He was born in Spikov, the son of R. Sholom Yosef. In 1926, he married his cousin, Yoheved Feige, the daughter of R. Menahem Mendel of Bohusi. He was ordained by R. Bezalel Safran and R. Judah Leib Zirelson. After the Russian revolution, he and his family endured the pogroms of Petlura. His father and his mother died from typhus, and in 1920, he succeeded his father.

In 1930, he settled in Bucharest, where he opened his own Bet HaMidrash. He devoted all his energies, particularly during the Second World War, to helping the refugees from Poland. In 1951, he settled in Tel Aviv, and in 1988, be moved to Bnai Berak, where he opened the Bohusi-Puscan Bet HaMidrash and established yeshiva Or Shragai Yuzhak for young people. He also maintained a small kollel and was very popular, especially with the large contingent of Romanian Jews. He was a people's rebbe rather than a scholar's rebbe, He was survived by an only daughter, Sboshanah Sheindel Sarah, who married R. Israel Joseph Friedman.

The rebbe passed on in Arosa , Switzerland, and was interred in the Ruzhyner plot in Nahlat Yitzhak, Tel Aviv.