Yaakov Yitzchak Rabinowicz, also known as the Yid Hakodosh, was the founder of the Peshischa sect of Hasidism in Przysucha, Poland, which was "an elitist, rationalistic Hasidism that centered on Talmudic study and formed a counterpoint to the miracle-centered Hasidism of Lublin." He held court in the grand synagogue of Przysucha.
Career
He was born in 1766. His break from The Seer is dramatically recounted in Martin Buber"s Gog Und Magog, published in English as Foreign the Sake of Heaven. He died in 1813.
His teachings are documented in the post-humous work, Wonders of the Holy Jew (נפלאות היהודי).