Rabbi Ze'ev Wolf was a student of the Baal Shem Tov. He was the Baal Tokeah, the one who blows the Shofar, at the beit midrash of the Baal Shem Tov.

In a book called Me'ah Shearim, it is mentioned that Rabbi Ze'ev Wolf Kitzes was very strict about not eating meat that was kosherized with him not being present, even if his rabbi the Baal Shem Tov was present.