a quick head count reveals descendents of
the Chacham Tzvi/R. Yaakov Emden,
Rabbeinu Elimelech,
R. SR Hirsch,
R. Shlomo Ganzfried.
any others?

Sure

(Plus we are working on making our eniklech proud of us too )

<<think Sefardi>>

Rashi
Maharshal
The Kotzker Rebbe

r' yosef karo, if geneological records are to be believed.

Alter of Kelm
Shelah
Maharal
Rashi
Dovid Hamelech
Golem (JK - someone would have to say that sometime)

I am descended from the Tosfos Yom Tov and the Rama.

Shtinkelshmecker Rebbe?

GR"A......
(chabadtzkers don't read this)

R' Yosef Chanina Lipa Meisles (a commentary found in tiny print way back in many editions of shas) and the Rupshitzer Rebbe, R' Naftoli.

And Avraham Yitzhak and Ya'akov and one of the shivtei kah (I think).

Incidentally, its not surprising that so many frum Jews have some kind of rabbinic yichus. The more learned Jews had more Jewishly educated families and I would assume more likely to have frum descendents. That's in part why Torah learning is so important for Jewish continuity.

I know of an oldie descended from the Chazon Ish.
There's a shady assumption that I might be directly descended from R' Spektor, but it can't be proven.

Maharal mi'prague
Rashi through R"t

The Divrei Chaim
The Bnei Yissaschar
(I assume the Baruch Taam)
The Belzer Rebbe

I'm probably forgetting some.
These are direct, others are just related.

I thought the Chazon Ish didn't have any children?





Doesn't that make hafle and snag cousins?

Aharon HaKohen

whenever ppl asked me my name (before i got married), the next question always was "r u related to Steipler?" the truth is, i don't know

for those (many) with incredible yuchasin:
has it had an effect on your lives? is it a source of pride (in a positive sense) or a burden (in a negative sense)? do you feel constrained with expectations? do you think your ancestor would be proud/pleased/satisfied/disappointed with the way you turned out? do you feel you emulate your illustrious ancestor? do you feel you have benefited from his blood? has it been adventageous at all, like in shidduchim or school? or is it just family trivia and you're indifferent? do you feel pressure to keep to a certain family derech?

this reminds me of a story...

i mekurav somebody once who was very far from the derech and he had a noncommitted (or so he thought) sexual relationship with a very sleazy descendant of the baal shem tov. when he wanted to become religious he dropped her and she was furious. sometimes when she would find him and flip out and stuff she would mention how she knows he enjoyed their time together and how he should be proud to be shtupping a desendcant of the besht. i told him to say, next time she mentiones her relation to the founder of chassidus, "and i bet he would be really proud of you".

she only needed to hear that once.

Interesting questions, Melech.
In my family it is definitely a source of pride, and I try to ask myself at times if I am behaving in a way that would bring nachas to my 4x great grandfather. I am a big proponent of the Hirschian ideal, specifically Torah im derech eretz, although I am far from a baki on the subject. As for there being "perks", since I don't carry the family name it's not something that ppl would ever guess, and actually aside from close family friends not many ppl in my social sphere know. My siblings and I have always shied away from mentioning it to teachers, and I certainly never say anything to either shadchanim or the boys I date. Where I was raised it is considered distasteful and show-offy to broadcast things like yichus.
By the same token, yichus is relative (no pun intended). I am just as proud of (and more likely to talk about) my grandfather, a"h, who, though not a Rav, was an ehrlicheh Yid in every sense of the term and touched the heart of everyone who had the z'chus to meet him. If I am successful in raising children who will achieve his madreiga in bein adam lachaveiro, I will be very satisfied indeed.

talking about yichus. lehavdil alfei havdules, bein kodesh lechol, in The Da Vinci Code, he mentions einiklech of yoshke. that there are family's famous for being able to trace their ancestry back to him. who did he marry/cohabit with? was she jewish?

mosheshmeal
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maybe Mary Magdelene
I think there are some rumors about their "friendship". Was she the one who, shall we say, diplays physical affection for financial remuneration?

thanks melech.

mosheshmeal
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Jake, yichus is like having "zero's" .
A person can be a desendant of 6 rebbes , but if they dont work on themselves it's like having a bunch of "zeros".
Its up to each person to turn themselves into a "digit" and transform the "zeros" into numbers.
200, 300. or for thos incredible yachsanim 200000. ;-)



(My family is eighth generation direct descendants from R' Mendel Riminov. )

i saw something on AP about a small earthquake in rimanov... must have been ur zeidy turning over in his grave (and over and over....)

mosheshmeal
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Oysh.

If only all of our Zeydes could learn in peace...

on that note...

not sure of the source, or exact details, but it's known that some tzadikim and gedolim after they are nifter are zoiche to become part of the beis din shel maaloh.

a godol was once asked how this could be since all the places must be taken already, he answered that if a descendant of any of the beis din commits an aveiroh, then he's fired.

I think i've freed up a lot of space up there...

mosheshmeal
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Eight times. (to be exact)

Don't want to go there, but if that's the criteria, who's left?

gedolim are going up quite often sadly.

i doubt every little aveirele would have such serious repercussions, but i'm not sure. they haven't replied to my emails. (jim carey...)

mosheshmeal
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hear any news from Vilna??? i hear my zeide is just spinning so quickly it doesn't shake it just vibrates

i'm strongly holding onto what little koach ha'histapkus I have.

mosheshmeal
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we are related!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am a descendant of the tosfos yom tov too! there is a book that was put out a little while ago called the unbroken chain. it is a listing of all his descendants. oh, and we are also related to Rashi and Dovid Hamelech through him.

Wow Mazel Tov. another h.com engangment brewing...

ahem, were both happily married... women .

Well well, either you can pull a Mcgreevy or you can have your children marry each other.

P.S. A hearty Mazel Tov on both of your past weddings.

thank you very much

as opposed to?

mosheshmeal
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and that would make us at h.com, what?

outside her social sphere

Didn't mean to downplay the role of h.com-ers at all, I certainly like to think of you as friends. I was referring to people w/ whom I've engaged in social interaction in person. There are only one or 2 people on h.com who have that claim to fame!

I am apparently a relative (as in a great great great great etc niece) of R'Shach ztl.

ein ruach chachomim ........

On average for every 30 years there is another generation. A person has 2 parents 4 grand parents and doubles it for every generation up. The shivteay-koh were approximately 3thousand years ago that makes it 100 generations ago. do your sums and work out if you are not an einikel from all of them (nearly impossible).

lomir deleben

Then I guess we're related too (Rashi and Dovid Hamelech)

shabsi tzi and hertzel yemach shemom vezichrom left no yiddishe doros. no wonder.

mosheshmeal
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we've already discussed in another thread gedolim who, r"l, never had children. that, in and of itself, is not necessarily proof of divine displeasure.

today is the 350th yohrzeit of the toisfes-yomtev (Tosfos Yom Tov for the gairim and bahl-tsheeves)

The topic today got me thinking about this and I remembered something else.
I'm one of only a handful of people in the world alive who is a descendent of all of the Ropshitzer's children.
So that means I'm related to you.
I just made your day, right?