Hayyim ben Isaac HaLevi Reizes

Ḥayyim ben Isaac Ha Levi Reizes was a rabbi and Jewish martyr of Poland. Ḥayyim was a wealthy and learned man who held the court position of “av bet din” in Lvov and was rabbi of Kamenka-Bugskaya. He and his brother Joshua, who headed a yeshivah in Lvov, were accused in the spring of 1728 by the bishop of Lvov of having attempted to induce the Jewish apostate, Jan Filipowicz, to return to Judaism, and of having profaned the symbols of Christianity which he carried with him. They were arrested, interrogated, tortured by the Inquisition tribunal, and condemned to death by burning at the stake. Their property was confiscated and set aside for financing a project to strengthen the town walls.