Career
Arik was so highly respected by the leading Rabbis of his generation, that following the death of Rabbi Schwadron, the Belzer Rav directed all halachik questions to Rabbi Arik in his place. He was the posek of the Galician town Buchach (in present-day Ukraine. However, during World War I, Arik fled to the Austrian city of Vienna.
Upon his return to Galicia after the war, Arik assumed the post of Chief Rabbi of TarnóWest
In addition to his insights on various tractates of both the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmud and his halachic responsa, he also arranged and published a volume with the title of "Chidushei HaraMaL" (Kolomye 1890). Arik"s opinions are cited extensively by his contemporaries, as well as later halachic authorities including the Chelkas Yaakov, Kinyan Torah beHalacha, and March"eh Yechezkel.
Some consider the reluctance of other great halachic decisors to rule against his opinions a sign of unique reverence.