10 Iyar 5634
The Rebbe, Rav Yitzchak Eizik Yehudah Yechiel Safrin was born in 5566 to his father, the Rebbe Rav Alexander Sender of Komarna. As a child, he learned Torah from his eminent father.
After he was orphaned of his father at around the age of 12, he grew up with his uncle, his father’s brother, the Rav Tzvi Hirsch of Zidichoiv, and after he married the daughter of the tzaddik Rav Avraham Mordechai of Pintchov, he moved to live in that town, where his father-in-law served as Rav.
He often traveled to the tzaddikim of his generation, to learn from their practices and from their chassidus, but he learned primarily from his father-in-law and his uncle, the Zidichoiver Rebbe. After the passing of his uncle in 5591, when Rav Yitzchak Eizik was only 25 years old, he returned to Komarna, where chassidim began to flock to him and he became renowned as a tzaddik and po’el yeshuos.
He authored numerous seforim in which he combined the Torah of the Arizal and the Torah of the Baal Shem Tov, among them Heichal Habrachah – a peirush on the Chamishah Chumshei Torah; Otzar Chaim on the 613 mitzvos; Zohar Chai – a commentary on the Zohar; Maasei Oreg, Atzei Eden and Pnei Zaken on Shishah Sidrei Mishnah.
He passed away on 10 Iyar 5634, and was laid to rest in the cemetery in Komarna.
