Reb Elimelech Weisblum of Lizensk zy"a

Reb Elimelech of Lizensk zy"a

הרב ר׳ אלימלך מליזענסק זי״ע

Years 1717–1787 Yahrzeit 21 Adar (in a leap year, 21 Adar II)
11 March 1787 · usually February or March Kever / tziyun The Beis Hachaim, Ulica Bożnicza, Leżajsk (Lizensk), Poland

Upcoming yahrzeit: 30 March 2027 (21 Adar II) (5787)

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Biography

Reb Elimelech Weisblum zy"a was born in 1717 (sources name Tykocin or Lapczyca, near Bochnia). He was niftar in Lizensk on 21 Adar 5547 (11 March 1787). The earlier site already wrote: his yahrzeit falls on the 21st of Adar, and his tziyun has always been a place where Yidden come to pour out their hearts and daven for yeshuah and rachamim.

Together with his older brother, Reb Zusha of Anipoli zy"a, he spent years in galus. Then he learned by the Maggid of Mezritch zy"a, the memaleh makom of the Baal Shem Tov zy"a. After the Maggid's histalkus in 1772 he became a leading Rebbe of Chassidus in Poland and Galicia, and settled in Lizensk around 1777. He taught that Chassidim should not copy the hard fasting of his early years.

His main sefer, Noam Elimelech, gathers the Torah he said at shalosh seudos. His son Reb Elazar wrote it down and printed it after the histalkus. His great talmidim — among them the Chozeh of Lublin zy"a, the Maggid of Kozhnitz zy"a, Reb Mendel of Rimanov zy"a, and the Apta Rebbe zy"a — spread Polish Chassidus. Reb Dovid of Lelov zy"a was also from his talmidim. In most Chasidic minyanim, Tachanun is not said on his yahrzeit.

Historical background

Reb Elimelech zy"a belonged to the third dor of Chassidus, after the Baal Shem Tov zy"a (niftar 1760) and the Maggid of Mezritch zy"a (niftar 1772). Chassidus was then spreading from Podolia and Volhyn into Poland and Galicia, often against the opposition of the misnagdim. After the first chalukah of Poland (1772), Galicia came under the Austrian malchus. That is the background of the new Chasidic hoifen in Lizensk, Lublin, Kozhnitz, and Rimanov.

Before & after

Who came before

The Baal Shem Tov zy"a — Founder of Chassidus; the Maggid of Mezritch zy"a was his memaleh makom and Reb Elimelech's rebbi
The Maggid of Mezritch zy"a — His rebbi; after the Maggid's histalkus, Reb Elimelech zy"a became a leading Rebbe in Poland and Galicia

Who came after

Reb Mendel of Rimanov zy"a — One of his principal talmidim; after 1787 he became a leading Rebbe in Galicia
Reb Dovid of Lelov zy"a — A talmid of Reb Elimelech zy"a, later also of the Chozeh of Lublin zy"a
The Chozeh of Lublin, the Maggid of Kozhnitz, and the Apta Rebbe, zy"a — His other principal talmidim, who founded major Polish hoifen
The Maor VaShemesh zy"a — A talmid of Reb Elimelech zy"a, who later brought Chassidus to Krakow

In his dor

Reb Zusha of Anipoli zy"a — His brother; they are remembered as “the holy brothers”

Sources

The facts on this page come from the earlier site and from the sources listed here. Where the sources are not one shittah, it is written in the text.

Pictures of the tziyun

The gold plaque in the ohel of Reb Elimelech of Lizensk zy"a, with the words “Noam Elimelech” and the yahrzeit, 21 Adar. Photo: Global Kvittel.

Inside the ohel of Reb Elimelech of Lizensk zy"a: the gold dome-shaped fence around the matzeivah. Photo: Global Kvittel.

Rebbeim

Reb Dov Ber, the Maggid of Mezritch zy"a, who was the memaleh makom of the Baal Shem Tov zy"a
For years he wandered with his brother, Reb Zusha of Anipoli zy"a

Seforim

Noam Elimelech — Torah on the weekly parshiyos, put together by his son Reb Elazar and printed in Lemberg in 1788, after his histalkus

What he is known for

One of the founders of Chassidus in Poland and Galicia, and of the Torah of the tzaddik
His tziyun in Lizensk is still one of the biggest yearly aliros-regel in Poland
It is told, in later accounts, that he said whoever comes to his kever will not leave this world without teshuvah

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