Yitzhak HaLevi ben Mordechai Raitzes

Yitzhak HaLevi ben Mordechai Raitzes (c. 1730 – 14 June 1799) was a Polish rabbi.

[3][4][5] He married Sara Leah Lowenstamm, the daughter of Aryeh Leib ben Saul, the Rabbi of Amsterdam, and the granddaughter of Tzvi Ashkenazi, the Chacham Tzvi.

Halevi's first rabbinical position was Av Bais Din of Leshnev[3][6] a small town, currently in Lviv Oblast in Ukraine.

[3] In 1778[3] (or 1776[7]) he became the Rabbi of Kraków, a position that he held until his death on 14 June 1799.

[3] One of his sons Mordechai Halevi was the Rabbi of Tykocin,[3] while his other son Tzvi Hersch David Levin held the post as the Rabbi of Szczebrzeszyn[3] before moving to Kraków to help his father in the rabbinate of Kraków.