Haszkiel Jeleniowicz, a land elder of Opatów, refutes the claims made by some Opatów Jews. He states, among others, that other towns also observe a custom according to which land elders convene with the kahal elders. Opatów has always had only one land elder, and this elder always attends the congress of the Four Lands’ Council and assemblies of the Crown elders, receiving the invitation to these meetings from Crown scribes and the Treasurer of the Crown. From the Cracow-Sandomierz only two delegates are sent, rather than all their land elders.