Munkatcher Rebbe's Father Prohibited the Munkatcher from going to the funeral and saying Kaddish for him!

The letter dated 1981, and signed by Rav Baruch Rabinovich, the father of the present Munkatcher, Dinover Rebbes, basically prohibits his children from going to his funeral, saying Kaddish, keeping his yurzeit, or ever visiting his grave.

The letter refers to a barrage of harassment  by Rav Baruch's children, bringing their father (Rav Baruch )  to court and ignoring Bais Din! 

Rav Baruch was the son-in-law of the Minchas Eluzer, the Munkatcher Rebbe pre WW2 . The Minchas Eluzer was a rabid fanatical anti-Zionist . His son-in-law, Reb Baruchel, as he was fondly called,  apparently veered off the anti-Zionist SHIT"ah, and embraced the Zionist idea once the State was established. 

His son from his first wife, the present Munkatcher Rebbe, was made Rebbe (after Rav Baruch rightfully refused to tow the fascist line ) on the condition, that he continue the anti-Zionist agenda!

Notice the letterhead, where Rabbi Rabinovich still refers to himself as the "Chief Rabbi of Munkach," that may very well be the reason ,... ... why his very own children disowned him and shlepped him kicking and screaming to secular court!

The children were embarrassed of their father, not because he G-D forbid  went off the derech, but because he became a Mizrachi Rav in Cholon, Israel, owned a dog, and wore with his Chassidishe Levush,........ cufflinks and a tie!
 Big avirois! 

So the children, the Rebbelich, decided to ignore the Holy Torah that explicitly states that even rebbilich have to honor their parents, and started a campaign to drive the old man nuts! 
They succeeded!

I do believe that there was some sort of a truce, because I remember that the Munkatcher came to hear his father speak at the Sfardishe Shul in Boro-Park .... but I don't remember the sequence of the dates... so it could be that the Sfardishe Shul event was post  the published letter, and they made up!

Let's hear from my readers.....

Rav Baruch was a  Talmud Chachim of note who was fluent in the entire Talmud with all commentaries and was an accomplished orator, often keeping his audience on the edge of their seats in a spell!