 Mordechai Yosef Leiner

Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izbica ( "Izhbitze, Izbitse, Ishbitze") (1801-1854) was a rabbinic Hasidic thinker and founder of the Izhbitza-Radzyn dynasty of Hasidic Judaism.Rabbi Mordechai Yosef was born in Tomashov () in 1801 to his father Reb Yaakov the son of Reb Mordechai of Sekul, a descendant of Rabbi Saul Wahl.