 Reb Yidele was born in 1905 in Dzików, a shtetl near Tarnobrzeg, Poland.His mother Chava was the daughter of Rabbi Yisrael Hager, Rebbe of Vizhnitz, and his father was Rabbi Alter Yechezkel Eliyahu.He studied for five years under Rabbi Meir Arik of Tarnów, who greatly admired him.