Together with his father he visited the Holy Land in 1935. He became rebbe in 1936. He was active in the Aguda and advo­cated the establishment of agricultural cen­ters for the training of religious pioneers. He was transported to Transnistra, where he spent two and a half years in hiding. His brother Eliezer rescued him and took him to Czernowitz and Braszov. In 1947 he arrived in Haifa, where he established the hasidic settlement Ramat Vishnitz. He was active in the Mo'etzet Ged­olei HaTorah and Hinukh Atzmai. He was buried in Bene Berak.