Yechezkel Panet

Rabbi Yechezkel Panet was a leading rabbi in 19th-century Romania and founder of the Dayzh chasidic dynasty. Born in the town of Bielsko-Biała, Poland in 1783, he studied in Leipnik under Rabbi Boruch Frankel Thumim, in Prague under Rabbi Yehuda Leib Fishel, Rabbi Shmuel Landau, and Rabbi Elazar Fleklis, as well as in Linsk under Rabbi Menachem Mendel Rabin. He also studied with the Vilna Gaon and Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Rimanov, who became his chief teacher.