In 1857 he was the youngest member of a committee of rabbis chosen to regulate the management of the Volozhin yeshiva. Ten years later he settled a quarrel which threatened to ruin the Mir Yeshiva. In 1868, he stood at the head of a committee to help the poor during a drought which almost produced a famine, and he allowed as a temporary measure the use of peas and beans in the Passover of that year. In 1875, he decided against the use of the Corfu Citron as "Etrog", because of the exorbitant price to which they had risen. In 1879 he arranged, through Prof. A. Harkavy, his former pupil, that three rabbis, Reuben of Dünaburg, Lipa Boslansky of Mir, and Elijah Eliezer Grodzenski of Vilna, should be added to the official rabbinical commission, which had hitherto consisted entirely of men of affairs and secular scholars.