R. Naftali Zevi Horowitz Ropshitser (of Ropczyce), (1760–1827) Hasidic Zaddik, and founder of Hasidic dynasties. A participant in the "holy company" whose mentor was R. Elimelech of Lyzhansk, R. Naphtali Zevi was one of the main leaders of Hasidism in Galicia after the death of R. Jacob Isaac ha-Hozeh (the Seer) of Lublin (1815); he is also considered as a pupil of Israel, the Maggid of Kozienice and R. Menahem Mendel Rymanower . Recollections of him were preserved only in folk-tales and stories which drew as much on imagination as truth. His admirers perceived esoteric and symbolic allusions in his every word and deed. According to Ḥasidic tradition, R. Naphtali Zevi feared that the rise of Napoleon would have bad effects for the Jews of Poland, such as military service, attendance at gentile schools, and the spread of unbelief, while his teacher R. Menahem Mendel held that Napoleon's victory would bring them deliverance. His works, in addition to Zeta Kodesh, are Ohel Naftali (1910), a collection of his talks and stories about him and Ayyalah Sheluḥah (1862), a commentary on Genesis and Exodus. His son Eliezer of Dzieckowitz (Dzikow; d 1861), his disciple and successor, was a colleague of R. Issachar Baer Radoshitser and R. Hirsch Rymanower . In his last days he cut himself off from almost all contact with his Ḥasidim. R. Naphtali Zevi's other son, R. Jacob of Malitsch (d. 1839), officiated as a rabbi in Kolbuszowa and Malitsch and from 1827 became a Zaddik. By virtue of the miracles ascribed to him, he was known as the "Little Ba'al Shem Tov."