Thousands of followers of rebbes such as the Gerrer Rebbe Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (known as the Sfas Emes), the Chernobyler Rebbe, and the Vizhnitzer Rebbe flocked to their towns for the Jewish holidays and followed their rebbes' minhagim (Jewish practices) in their own homes.
He refused that position, and leadership of the Hasidim went to Rabbi Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin of Aleksander.
alter ego | Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam | Gary Leib | Yisrael Alter | Yeshiva Beth Yehudah | Victor Alter | Paul Alter | Alter ego | Yehudah L. Werner | Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter | UMM Alter II | Tom Alter | The Old Rhine (''Alter Rhein'') in Höchst, Austria | The Exotic Sounds of the Alter Boys | Owen D. Leib | Moshe Leib Rabinovich | Mayer Alter Horowitz | Leib Tropper | Leib Gurwicz | Kollel Gur Aryeh | Jonathan Alter | Georg Leib's Gravestone - Alter Südfriedhof | Georg Leib | David Alter | Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam | alt=Georg Leib's Grave | Alter the Ending |