Shlomo Rabinowicz

Shlomo Rabinowicz
First Radomsker Rebbe
Term	1843 – 1866
Full name	Shlomo Hakohen Rabinowicz
Main work	Tiferes Shlomo
Born	1801 Włoszczowa, Poland
Died	16 March 1866 (29 Adar 5626) Radomsko, Poland
Buried	Radomsko, 16 March 1866
Successor	Avraham Yissachar Dov Rabinowicz
Father	Dov Tzvi Rabinowicz
Wife	Gitele
Children	Leibusz Hirsz Meir Avraham Yissachar Dov Sarah Rikvah Rochel

Shlomo Hakohen Rabinowicz (also spelled Rabinowitz, Rabinowich, Rabinovitch) (1801 – 16 March 1866) was the first Rebbe of the Radomsk Hasidic dynasty and one of the great Hasidic masters of 19th-century Poland. He is known as the Tiferes Shlomo after the title of his sefer, which is considered a classic in Hasidic literature.

Rabinowicz's year of birth is variously cited as 1795, 1796, 1800, 1801, or 1803. He was born in Włoszczowa, Poland to Rabbi Dov Zvi (d. 1839), the av beis din (head of the rabbinical court) of Włoszczowa. Like most of the Jews of Poland, Rabbi Shlomo was called by his first name and patronymic; his children were the first to begin using the surname Rabinowicz. He was a descendant of Rabbi Nathan Nata Spira (1585 – 1633), a leading Polish Kabbalist and author of Megaleh Amukos.

Rabinowicz studied in the yeshiva in Piotrków Trybunalski, where he was regarded as a prodigy. By his bar mitzvah he knew the entire Urim Ve'umin of Rabbi Yonatan Eibeshutz by heart and had composed his own chiddushim (novel Torah thoughts). Late at night, he would study Kabbalah texts.

Later he became a talmid of Rabbi Meir of Apta, who was in turn a disciple of the Chozeh of Lublin. He became a Hasid of Rabbi Meir of Apta, Rabbi Fishele of Strikov, and Rabbi Yehoshua of Pshedburz. He also traveled to the Modzitzer Rebbe, Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, and Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz. Though he was born 14 years after the death of Rebbe Elimelech of Lizhensk, he also considered himself a disciple of the latter and visited his grave every year. Since as a Kohen he was not allowed to come in contact with graves, he had a wall built around the area so that he could pray there.

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