Mezhbizh (also spelled as
Medzibuz,
Mezbuz,
Mez'buz, and in various other ways, transcribed from various
Yiddish dialects) is the name of the town of
Medzhybizh in the present
Ukraine which is significant as both the source of a Hasidic dynasty that bears its name and as a symbolic name for the roots of
Hasidism.