[1] He led various communities as both a Posek and Rosh Yeshiva throughout Poland and Lithuania.
He served the Jewish community of Metz, France.
[2] He died on the 15th of Nissan,[3] and was buried in the famous Jewish cemetery of Metz.
He is best known for authoring Kikayon DeYona, a commentary on the Talmud, Rashi, Tosfos, Maharshal, and Maharsha to various tractates.
The commentary was recently re-printed in 1958 in Mount Kisco, New York by the Nitra yeshiva (formerly from Slovakia before the Holocaust) with footnotes and glosses by Rabbi Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl.