Shalom haLevi Rozenfeld

Rabbi Shalom Rozenfeld
שלום הלוי ראָזענפֿעלד‎
Personal life
Born	1800
Died	November 1851 (aged 50–51)
Religious life
Religion	Judaism

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]

Life

Rozenfeld 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

1. 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.
2. Hager, Baruch (1946). Oyfn ṿeg ... geḳlibene Ḥasidishe sḳetzn (in Yiddish). Bucharest: Farlag Bikurim. p. 41.
3. 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.
4. "Rozenfeld, Shalom, ha-Leṿi, -1851". Id.loc.gov. Retrieved Feb 16, 2023.
5. "Shalom Rozenfeld (1800-1851), haLevi" שלום רוזנפלד (1800-1851), הלוי. Nli.org.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved Feb 16, 2023.
6. Ami Living. No. 87. Sep 12, 2012. p. 44.
7. החסידות (in Hebrew) (2nd ed.). 1977. p. 195.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Raphael, Yiẓḥak; Rubinstein, Eliezer (1949). Fun di ḳṿaln funm ḥasidishn folḳlor (in Yiddish). Paris: Farlag "Unzer Ṿeg". p. 149.
11. 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.
12. Tzvi Rabinowicz (1996). The Encyclopedia of Hasidism. Jason Aronson. p. 411. ISBN 9781568211237. Retrieved Mar 9, 2023.