Rav Shlomo Zalman Levi was the oldest son of Rav Avrohom Levi. He was named for his paternal grandfather, Rav Shlomo Zalman, who was niftar when Rav Avrohom was still young. His brothers were Rav Nachum of Shadik (Shadika), who later lived in Yerushalayim; Rav Asher Lemel of Galin; Rav Yaakov Yehuda of Sleshin; and Rav Yisrael.
Rav Shlomo Zalman was born in Warsaw during the time that his father learned there with Rav Shlomo Zalman Lifshitz, the Chemdas Shlomo. Later, Rav Avrohom returned to his native Posen.
Rav Shlomo Zalman married the daughter of Rav Chaim Nachum Margulies, the son-in-law of Rav Ephraim Segal, Rav of Kviel. His zivug sheini was the daughter of Rav Binyomin Wolf Traube, Rav of Kalish.
Rav Shlomo Zalman was appointed Rav in Zlotchov, near Kalish.
An outstanding masmid, he also secretly did many acts of tzedaka and chessed.
Rav Shlomo Zalman was considered to have Ruach HaKodesh. It is related that one time, during his shiur in his Yeshiva in Zlotchov, a group of six doves landed on the window of the Bais Medrash; one flew away. Rav Shlomo Zalman instructed the talmidim to continue to learn on their own, while he himself set out to gather his brothers and travel to the home of their sister in Kletshev who had passed away. They arrived just in time for the kevura. When asked how he had known, Rav Shlomo Zalman replied that the six doves on the window corresponded to his family — five brothers and one sister — and when one bird flew away, he understood that his sister had passed on.
Another time, after a shiur, Rav Shlomo Zalman instructed one of the bochurim to recite Kaddish. Then he told the bochur to return home, and the bochur found that his mother had passed away. When asked how he knew, Rav Shlomo Zalman replied that his eyes saw further than the eyes of other people.
Rav Shlomo Zalman was niftar on the eighth of Av 5591/1831, during a cholera outbreak.
Rav Shlomo Zalman left manuscripts of chiddushim on many masechtos, but they were not printed. Some of his chiddushim are quoted in other seforim.
Rav Shlomo Zalman had one son-in-law, Rav Michoel Dov Weingott, Rav in Loivitch and mechaber of Agudas Ezov Midbari.
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