Shalom haLevi Rozenfeld, known as Rabbi Shalom of Kaminka (1800–1851), was a Galician scholar in Hasidic Judaism known as a zaddik and kabbalist.[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.[4][5][6][7]
Rabbi Shalom Rozenfeld | |
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שלום הלוי ראָזענפֿעלד | |
| Personal | |
| Born | 1800 |
| Died | November 1851 (aged 50–51) |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Yahrtzeit | 20 Cheshvan, 5612 |
Life
editRozenfeld was born in 1800.
As a young man, he was a student in Torah of Rabbi Shlomo Kluger and in Kabbalah and Hasidism he was a disciple of Rabbi Naftali of Ropshitz.[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. He was a close friend of Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz.[3][7]
He wrote many chidushim on the Torah but preferred that they not be printed.[3]
He died in his early fifties in 1851. 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.[7]
His only son, Joshua (1830–1897), succeeded him as Rabbi of Kamianka-Buzka after his death. Rabbi Joshua was very stringent in his observances.[12]
References
edit- ^ Martin Buber (7 May 1995). The legend of the Baal-Shem. Translated by Maurice Friedman. Princeton University Press (published 1955). p. 163. ISBN 978-0-691-04389-0. Retrieved Mar 3, 2023.
- ^ Hager, Baruch (1946). Oyfn ṿeg ... geḳlibene Ḥasidishe sḳetzn (in Yiddish). Bucharest: Farlag Bikurim. p. 41.
- ^ a b c Abraham Stern (1933). מור"ר שלום ז"ל הלוי ראָזענפֿעלד אב"ד קאמינקא. מליצי אש (in Hebrew). Vol. תשרי, מרחשון. Vranov nad Topľou: S. Singer. p. 140a. Retrieved Mar 8, 2023.
- ^ "Rozenfeld, Shalom, ha-Leṿi, -1851". Id.loc.gov. Retrieved Feb 16, 2023.
- ^ "Shalom Rozenfeld (1800-1851), haLevi" שלום רוזנפלד (1800-1851), הלוי. Nli.org.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved Feb 16, 2023.
- ^ a b Ami Living. No. 87. Sep 12, 2012. p. 44.
- ^ a b c החסידות (in Hebrew) (2nd ed.). 1977. p. 195.
- ^ Yitzhak Buxbaum (14 August 2002). "The Secret of Dying". Jewish Tales of Mystic Joy (1st ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass (published 2002). p. 222. ISBN 0-7879-6272-4. Retrieved Mar 3, 2023.
- ^ Raḳer, Yehoshua (1939). Toldes̀ anshey shem di lebens geshikhṭe fun dem goen umeḳubl Reb Shneyer Zalmen Ladyer [sic], di Ungarishe geoynim ... (in Yiddish). Cleveland, OH: Tseṿi Hirsh Ḳoyfṭheyl. p. 143.
- ^ Raphael, Yiẓḥak; Rubinstein, Eliezer (1949). Fun di ḳṿaln funm ḥasidishn folḳlor (in Yiddish). Paris: Farlag "Unzer Ṿeg". p. 149.
- ^ Yosef Israel (2005). "Der Shtet'ele Belz". Rescuing the Rebbe of Belz: Belzer Chassidus - History, Rescue and Rebirth (1st ed.). Mesorah Publications. p. 21. ISBN 1-57819-059-2. Retrieved Mar 3, 2023.
- ^ Tzvi Rabinowicz (1996). The Encyclopedia of Hasidism. Jason Aronson. p. 411. ISBN 9781568211237. Retrieved Mar 9, 2023.