[2] He had met with the Maggid of Mezeritch who had foretold that his wife would give birth to a son "who will be a light that illuminates the world".

In the year 1792, upon the murder of Shlomo of Karlin by Cossack forces,[4] Klughaft began to lead Hasidism in Lviv, and from there he moved to Strelisk under the guidance of Rabbi Aharon Aryeh Leib of Permishlan [he] and The Seer of Lublin.

[6] He once told Rabbi Yisrael Friedman of Ruzhin, who embraced materialism, that his followers do not want wealth.

They unanimously answered no, except for one follower who said that his wife wanted to be rich, and he became one of the governors of Rabbi Friedman's court.

The character of Rabbi Klughaft is described in Shmuel Yosef Agnon short story, "The Beginning of the Use of the Sharaf".