Born in Biala, Poland, to Rav Yerachmiel Tzvi, the son of the Divrei Bina of Biala and a direct descendant of the Yid HaKodosh, the Divrei Bina passed away when Yechiel Yehoshua was only four, and tragically, Rav Yerachmiel Tzvi passed away shortly thereafter at the age of twenty-six. In 1919, Rav Yechiel married Beila Chana Pesha, and in 1924 was formally installed as Rebbe of Biala, setting up court in Shidlitz, with a population of 200,000 Jews. He was exiled to Siberia with his family in 1940. In 1947, he moved to Eretz Yisrael, living in Tel Aviv for eight years before setting up his Bais Medrash and Kollel in Zichron Moshe in Yerushalayim, where he remained for the next twenty-seven years. He authored the sefer Chelkas Yehoshua.
