{{Short description|Rabbi (1889–1976)}} {{notability|1=Biographies|date=January 2022}} {{Expand Hebrew|topic=bio|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox Jewish leader | honorific-prefix = Rabbi | name = Eliyahu Simpson | synagogue = Nusach Ari Tzemach Tzedek | successor = Avrohom Rosenfeld | birth_date = {{Birth year|1889}} | birth_place = Babruysk, Russian Empire | death_date = {{Death year and age|1976|1889|12}} | death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | yahrtzeit = 29 Kislev, 5737 }} {{Chabad (Rebbes and Chasidim)|Rebbes of Chabad}} '''Eliyahu Simpson (Yaichel) '''(1889–1976)<ref>{{cite book|author=Chaim Miller|year=2014|title=Turning Judaism Outward|url={{Google books|z8MNBAAAQBAJ|page=196|plainurl=yes}}|page=196|publisher=Kol Menachem |isbn=978-1-934152-36-2|lccn=2014906880|access-date=Feb 1, 2022}}</ref> was the Rabbi of the Nusach Ari Tzemach Tzedek Synagogue in Borough Park, Brooklyn<ref name=kevarim>{{cite web|url=https://kevarim.com/rabbi-eliyahu-simpson-yaichel/|title=Rabbi Eliyahu Simpson (Yaichel)|date=Mar 24, 2017|website=kevarim.com|access-date=Feb 1, 2022}}</ref> for over fifty years. He was one of the heads of Agudas Chasidei Chabad<ref>{{cite web|url=https://col.org.il/news/99571|date=Sep 15, 2016|website=col.org.il|language=he|script-title=he:י"ב אלול: אדמו"ר הריי"צ הגיע לביקור בארצות הברית|access-date=Feb 1, 2022}}</ref> and served as personal ''gabbai'' for Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://chabad.info/bdh/504427/|website=chabad.info|date=August 2019 |language=he|script-title=he:אבידה גדולה: המזכיר הרב שלום מענדל סימפסון ע"ה|access-date=Feb 1, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/4725721/jewish/Scroll-to-the-End-of-Exile.htm|title=Scroll to the End of Exile|author=Zvi Hirsch Telsner|website=Chabad.org|access-date=Feb 1, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Schachter-Shalomi |first1=Zalman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p9gl9KpScUYC&dq=%22Eliyahu+Simpson%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA165 |title=Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Prayer |last2=Segel |first2=Joel |date=2012 |publisher=Jewish Lights Publishing |isbn=978-1-58023-627-0 |language=en}}</ref> the sixth Rebbe of Lubavitch, after the latter's arrival in the United States.<ref name=ami>{{cite magazine|author=Dovid Shaltiel|date=Dec 27, 2017|title=Shabbos with Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin|magazine=Ami Magazine|issue=348|page=78}}</ref>
Rabbi Simpson was born at Babruysk in 1889. He studied at Tomchei Tmimim in Lubavitch for over thirteen years, where he was close to the Rebbe Rashab.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://anash.org/29-kislev-yahrzeit-of-reb-elia-yaichel-simpson/|title=29 KISLEV: YAHRZEIT OF REB ELIA "YAICHEL" SIMPSON|date=Dec 14, 2020|website=anash.org|access-date=Feb 1, 2022}}</ref> He died at New York City on December 21, 1976,<ref name=kevarim/> after-which he was succeeded as Rabbi of the Synagogue by his son-in-law, Rabbi Avrohom Rosenfeld. Rabbi Rosenfeld's son is married to the daughter of Aaron Rubashkin.<ref name=ami/>
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