Shalom haLevi Rozenfeld explained

Honorific-Prefix:	Rabbi
Shalom Rozenfeld
Native-Name-Lang:	yi
Birth Date:	1800
Yahrtzeit:	20 Cheshvan, 5612

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]

Notes and References

1. Book: Martin Buber. Martin Buber. Maurice Friedman. [{{Google books|P2_dDwAAQBAJ|page=163|plainurl=yes}} The legend of the Baal-Shem]. 7 May 1995 . Princeton University Press. 1955. 163. 978-0-691-04389-0. Mar 3, 2023.
2. Book: Hager . Baruch . Oyfn ṿeg ... geḳlibene Ḥasidishe sḳetzn . 1946 . Farlag Bikurim . Bucharest . 41 . yi.
3. Book: Abraham Stern. he:מור"ר שלום ז"ל הלוי ראָזענפֿעלד אב"ד קאמינקא. https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=29099&st=&pgnum=279. he:מליצי אש. he. תשרי, מרחשון. Vranov nad Topľou. S. Singer. 1933. 140a. Mar 8, 2023.
4. Web site: Rozenfeld, Shalom, ha-Leṿi, -1851. Id.loc.gov. Feb 16, 2023.
5. Web site: Shalom Rozenfeld (1800-1851), haLevi. Nli.org.il. he. he:שלום רוזנפלד (1800-1851), הלוי. Feb 16, 2023.
6. Ami Living. No. 87. Sep 12, 2012. p. 44.
7. Book: 1977. he:החסידות. he. 2nd. 195.
8. Book: Yitzhak Buxbaum. Yitzhak Buxbaum. The Secret of Dying. [{{Google books|OyE9SNKHSbwC|page=222|plainurl=yes}} Jewish Tales of Mystic Joy]. 14 August 2002. 1st. San Francisco, CA. Jossey-Bass. 2002. 222. 0-7879-6272-4. Mar 3, 2023.
9. Book: Raḳer . Yehoshua . Toldes̀ anshey shem di lebens geshikhṭe fun dem goen umeḳubl Reb Shneyer Zalmen Ladyer [sic], di Ungarishe geoynim ... ]. 1939 . Tseṿi Hirsh Ḳoyfṭheyl . Cleveland, OH . 143 . yi.
10. Book: Raphael . Yiẓḥak . Rubinstein . Eliezer . Fun di ḳṿaln funm ḥasidishn folḳlor . 1949 . Farlag "Unzer Ṿeg" . Paris . 149 . yi.
11. Book: Yosef Israel. Der Shtet’ele Belz. [{{Google books|BSrcTG_xMxIC|page=21|plainurl=yes}} Rescuing the Rebbe of Belz: Belzer Chassidus - History, Rescue and Rebirth]. 2005 . 1st. Mesorah Publications. 2005. 21. 1-57819-059-2. Mar 3, 2023.
12. Book: Tzvi Rabinowicz. [{{Google books|OprXAAAAMAAJ|keywords=Kaminka|plainurl=yes}} The Encyclopedia of Hasidism]. 1996 . Jason Aronson. 1996. 411. 9781568211237. Mar 9, 2023.