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, Wolf Leiter (1891-1974) was born in the small town of Zevalov, Galicia, Poland. Wolf's father was rabbi Natan Nata Leiter and his mother Chaya Etya (Brier) On his mother's side Wolf - was  descended  from the noted  luminaries Rabbis David Halevi (Taz), Yoel Sirkes (BACH), Yomtov Lipman Heller among others.These rabbis are all important commentators on the Shulchan Aruch and Mishnah.

On the Leiter side, Wolf was related to a long line of important rabbis in Galica including such greats  as  Rabbi Shlomo Kluger (HaMARSHAK) among others. Wolf's grandfather  DOVID DOV LEITER  was a renowned dayan and rabbi in the town of Zevalov.

Wolf's Father Natan Nata BECAME RABBI IN Yazlavitz, Galica. As a young man there there he Gained reknown. In the 1930's, He was elevated to the position as the head of that Beit Din. He was murdered in the Holocaust (1941-1942?). Wolf's mother Chaya Etya (Brier) died in January 1939.

'''YOUNG WOLF'S EARLY EDUCATION ''' Wolf's highly unusual capacities for scholarship and learning were recognized early on by his parents. Chaya Etya (Breir), his mother, was an extremely instrumental factor in the involvement and the oversight of young Wolf Leiter's education.

Wolf's mother, Chaya Etya (Brier) was a highly Knowledgeable woman in Jewish history and learning.At the age of 3 Wolf was already taught by his mother to recite off by heart all the generations enumerated in the bible from Adam until the generation of the destruction of the first temple. Underscoring her seriousness about this area, Wolf Leiter wrote in his memoirs that from the time when he was 6 years old his mother was particularly careful that young Wolf not be disturbed during his study's.

In addition to attending the local Jewish School (Cheder) as a very young child (age 4) Wolf would sit side by side with his father Natan Nata and study together with him the bible (Pentateuch) with the commentary of Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki ("Chumash with Rashi"), At age six Wolf was already studying Talmud together.

At age 7 Wolf would walk to the synagogue reciting seven folios of the Talmudic tractate Gittin by heart! On his way back home he would repeat them again off by heart.In the synagogue he would be prancing on the benches and reciting the 7seven folios of Gittin over and over again. When Wolf was eight years old he authored his first note of commentary on the Talmud.

'''The spiritual and ethical upbringing of young Wolf by his parents was built on a powerful substratum of the Hebrew language which was spoken in their home. ''' During that same time, Young Wolf was corresponding gaining a reputation as "ilui blti ragil" - (young genius of exceptional proportions) and was ALREADY corresponding with some of the greatest scholars and rabbis of his time. Many of these scholars were authors of major works in Jewish jurisprudence (halachah). In fact at age eleven, two responsa were addressed to him in the work "Masseh Yehie"l authored by the renowned torah authority Rabbi Shmuel Hubner (res. numbers.30 and 47).

During this period young Wolf also wrote in many areas of Jewish law and learning.Even before he had reached the age of thirteen (bar mitzvah) he had completed a work on the Talmudic tractate GITTIN (1904). Wolf entitled his first major work ("Divrei Chachamim"). It did include an encyclopedic amount of sources from the works on tractate  Gittin authored by the major commentators throughout the centuries. Also appended to this work ("divrei chachamim") of young Wolf was correspondence discussing issues addressed in "divrei chachamim" between young Wolf and the greatest authority of jewish law at that time Rabbi Shalom Mordechai Schwadron Hacohen (Maharsham) of Brezahn, Galica, Poland, well as correspondence with other major rabbis.

At age twelve young Wolf was already studying and learning the Talmud on his own, as well as the works of the Jewish luminaries of the ages. At midnight his father Natan Nata would awaken young Wolf who would continue to study torah by himself for the next 6-7 hours. Wolf upon completing his all night studying he would go to synagogue for morning prayers! This nightly regime of torah study by Wolf would continue for the next seven years. This torah regime was a major contributing factors for young Wolf's acquisition of the amazing encyclopedic knowledge that became a wonder in the world of torah amongst the greatest torah authorities in the first half of the 20th century.

During this time he also edited and prepared for publication a manuscript of the Osziner rebbi as requested by him (1904).

During this period of Wolf's teen years his reputation as the Zevalever Ilui spread far and wide even beyond the borders of Galicia to Lithuania and beyond. Questions and issues halachik were addressed to him from scholars from all over Central Europe.

He was also corresponding with the internationaly renowned rabbinic authorities of the era. Amongst them were the Ragatchover gaon of Dvinsk, Russia, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Steinberg Rabbi of Brody, Galica Poland  and Rabbi Meir Arak of Tarnow, Galica, Poland and the Rabbi Shalom Mordechai Hacohen of Brezahn, Galica, Poland. Much of this correspondence when young Wolf was just seventeen year of age. Several of these letters addressed from these great rabbis to Wolf Leiter were for the purpose of acknowledging and affirming the halachic decisions of the young Rabbi Leiter. Two of these letters addressed to Rabbi Leiter affirming  his decision involved Agunah (the chained women). These acknowledgments of Rabbi Leiters correct Decision appear in each of Rabbi Leiter's responsum on his work Beth David responsa numbers. these rabbis were written to Wolf Leiter when he was seventeen years old and by Rabbi Shalom Mordechai Schwadron Hacohen (Maharsham) and by Rabbi Meir Arak.

These two letters from the two great two of decisors Jewish law at that period clearly state that young Wolf was eminently  qualified to render decisions in the most difficult areas of Jewish law and that his decisions are to be accepted and relied upon. 1911 Wolf aged nineteen begains serving as a dayan on the rabbinical court of Trembovle, Austria. World War 1 and the next Chapter in young Wolf's Life