Mordecai Jonah Rosenfeld
Mordecai Jonah Rosenfeld (; 21 October 1797 – 5 June 1885), also known by the acronym Mishuv (, short for , "Mordecai Jonah the "Shoḥet" and "Bodek"") was a Galician religious leader and Hebrew writer. Biography. Born in Dynów, he moved to Przemyśl at the age of seven and then Brody, where he studied the Talmud, Hebrew and German. Among his teachers was Tzvi Elimelech Spira, the first Dinover Rebbe. In about 1830 he became "shoḥet" at Sośnica, and remained there for the rest of his life. Rosenfeld's philosophy was influenced by the work of Nachman Krochmal. He was the  author of "En boḥen" (Przemyśl, 1872), a commentary on "Beḥinat olam"; "Or karov" (Przemyśl, 1873), a commentary on "Or ha-ḥayyim" by Joseph Yabez, with an appendix on the origin of Kabbalah; and an edition of the Book of Job with commentary ("Kenaf renanim") and philological notes ("Hokhaḥ milim"; Lemberg, 1875). In addition to these works he contributed articles to such periodicals as "Ha-Maggid" and "". The most important of these was "Netinah la-kohen", strictures on "Netinah la-ger" by Nathan Marcus Adler.