Melitz was a Galician Hasidic dynastic sect and a branch of the Ropshitz Hasidic sect. Its progenitor was Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz (circa 1784-1836), son of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Horowitz of Ropshitz, who became town rabbi of Melitz, or Mielec, in Galicia around 1810 and began serving as a rebbe there.
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