Eliezer Shlomo Schick was born in Jerusalem, Israel, to Rabbi Menachem Zev, the gaavad (head of the rabbinical court) of Tokaj, Hungary, and his wife Malka.

[1] When he was a youth, his family relocated to New York City, where he studied in the Kashau yeshiva and then in Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem under Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.

[3][5] He also printed thousands of copies of Rebbe Nachman’s Likutei Moharan and Sippurei Maasiyos and sold them at cost price, popularizing Breslov teachings around the world.

[3] Additionally, Schick wrote dozens[1] of sefarim, among them Erech Apayim (on anger management), Ilan Hachaim (on not wasting time), and commentaries on Rebbe Nachman's works.

[3] In 1985[1] he founded the Heichal Hakodesh Breslov community – largely consisting of baalei teshuvah (newly religious adherents) – in the Lower Galilee town of Yavne'el, Israel.

[3] In 2023 the documentary In the Name of the Father [12] (A Hasidic Crime Story), directed by Bat Dor Ojalvo, was released about Rabbi Schick and the Yavne'el Community, which gave a close look at the scandal that erupted regarding eg.