SAFRIN, ALEXANDER SENDER OF KOMARNO. Zichron Devarim [Chassidic and homiletic discourses with halachic novellae]

(CHASSIDISM)

J. M. Stand

(Lemberg)

1871

FIRST EDITION

The author (1770-1818) was the son of R. Yitzchak Isaac of Zydachov. He served as Rabbi of Zydachov and was later appointed as Rabbi of Komarno. He died in Uhely, Hungary aged 48. R. Moshe Teitelbaum, author of Yismach Moshe is buried next to the author. His son, the Chassidic Rebbe R. Isaac of Komarno, states in the introducton that the Chozeh of Lublin told his uncle R. Tzvi Hirsch of Zydachov that the author was one of the 36 hidden Tzadikim of the generation. Although the author's father and other members of this dynasty originally bore the family name Eichenstein, it was subsequently changed to Safrin. See Encyclopedia LeChassiduth (1980) p. 342 and T. Z. Rabinowicz, The Encyclopedia of Hasidism (1996) p. 423