Tzvi Elimelech Spira of Dinov


Tzvi Elimelech Spira of Dinov was a famous Hasidic Rebbe in Poland.

Biography

He was a nephew of Elimelech of Lizhensk and a student of Menachem Mendel of Rimanov, Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin and Yisroel Hopstein. Alternately, he was the rabbi of several cities of the Poland, led work from Dynów. A prolific writer, known as the author of Bnei Yissachar, a classic Hasidic text containing conversations about the Torah. He is also the author of many other works on various topics. Stubbornly fought against the Haskalah movement.
The traditions of Zvi Elimelech Spira from Dynuw continue his descendants and rabbis in Brooklyn. And his grave in Poland became a place of pilgrimage for the Hasidim.