Background
After the death of his father, the Sorof of Mogelnica, he assumed leadership of the chasidim, who eventually numbered ten thousand.
After the death of his father, the Sorof of Mogelnica, he assumed leadership of the chasidim, who eventually numbered ten thousand.
He was a chosid (follower) of the Rizhiner Rebbe. His sons-in-law were the Kozhnitser Rebbe and Rebbe Osher the Second of Stolin-Karlin. Some of the chasidim waited for the sons to grow up.
One eventually became the Piasetzner Rov.
Other chasidim chose a grandson, Rabbi Yisroel Shapira as their next leader. A third group, including many learned rabbis, followed the scholarly Ostrovtser Rov.