He succeeded his father Rabbi Mordechai Twersky as rebbe of the Chernobler chasidim.

He received his education from his grandfather, Rabbi Menachem Nachum Twersky of Chernobyl.

He married the daughter of Rabbi Gedalyo of Linits (author of Teshuos Chein).

They had three sons – Menachem Nochum of Loiev, Yeshayo Meshulom Zishe of Chernobyl and Boruch Osher of Chernobyl – and a daughter, Feygl, who married Rabbi Duvid Moshe Friedman of Czortków.

[2] He wrote an approbation to Or laYshorim by Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein.