Family
Friedman and his first wife, Sarah, had six sons and four daughters. These were:
- Sholom Yosef (Sadigura); he led his father's Hasidim, together with his brothers, for only a year until his death in 1851; his son, Rabbi Yitzchok, became the first Bohusher Rebbe
- Avrohom Yaakov (Sadigura)
- Menachem Nochum (Shtefenesht)
- Dov Ber (Leova)
- Dovid Moshe (Chortkov)
- Mordechai Shraga (Husyatin)
- Chaya Malka, whose second marriage was to Rabbi Yitzchak Twersky, first Rebbe of Skver
- Gittel Tova, wife of Yosef Monazon of Berdichev, scion of a wealthy banking family
- Miriam, wife of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager, first Rebbe of Vizhnitz
- Leah, wife of Dovid Halpern of Berdichev, scion of another wealthy banking family; their son Shalom Yosef (1856–1940) became the first Vasloi Rebbe in 1896
Shortly after the death of his wife Sarah in 1847, the Rebbe remarried to Malka, the widow of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch of Rimanov. She had a seven-year-old girl and three-year-old boy from her first marriage; this second marriage did not produce children.
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