Chaim Elozor Wax[1] (1822, Tarnogród - 1889, Kalisz[2]) was a well-known Hasidic rabbi, posek, and a Jewish leader in Poland.
He is especially known from his responsa work Nefesh Haya, and as the president of Kupat Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes Kollel Polen, Warsaw region.
The father refused the rabbi's request to conform to custom, and had his friend the governor command Wax to perform the ceremony.
His statements about Zionism are complex: at one time he quoted Rabbi Eliyahu's view that restoring Israel would hasten the arrival of Moshiach (a messianic future Jewish King of the Davidic line).
Wax advocated an initial strategy of supporting and strengthening Jewish communities in the holy land, with later provisions for new settlers.
As president of the Warsaw-Kolel he worked to raise funds for the semi-annual Haluka and developed ideas for a long-term sustainable Israeli economy.