[1] His sayings or lessons often appear in collected works of Hasidic stories or tales.
[2] He was the rabbi and Av Beit Din[3] in Novyi Yarychiv and in Kamianka-Buzka; both were located in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia not far from Lviv.
[8][9] After the latter’s death in 1827, he became a disciple in Kabbalah and Hasidism of Rabbi Sholom Rokeach of Belz.
[6][10][11] Additionally, he was a disciple in Kabbalah and Hasidism of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov.
Because this was a relatively young age for religious scholars in that time, he never served as a rebbe, although his contemporaries held him in great esteem.