Shevet HaLevi
Bnei Brak
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Shmuel Wosner
Shmuel Wosner
Also known as The Shevet HaLevi
1913 CE–2015 CE · Modern · Vienna
R. Shmuel Wosner (1913–2015) was the senior posek of Bnei Brak's Zichron Meir neighborhood for over sixty years and a halachic authority for Hungarian, German, and worldwide chareidi communities. Born in Vienna and educated in the great Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin, he survived the Holocaust and rebuilt in Bnei Brak, founding Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin there.
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ViennaוינהAustria
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Vienna, a capital of Austria-Hungary, was his birthplace in 1913.
About Vienna
Vienna, on the Danube, is the capital of Austria. It grew from the Roman legionary camp of Vindobona, begun around 97 CE, and became the residence of the Habsburg emperors; Ottoman armies besieged it in 1529 and 1683 without taking it. Its university, founded in 1365, is often called the oldest in the German-speaking world, St. Stephen's Cathedral is its principal church, and Sigmund Freud founded psychoanalysis here. Jews are recorded from the 1190s; in the 13th century Isaac ben Moses, author of Or Zarua, headed its rabbinical court and yeshiva. The community was destroyed in 1420-21 and expelled in 1670, then grew to about 200,000 by the 1920s; some 65,000 Viennese Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Shmuel Wosner’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
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Yitzchak Friedman, Minhat Yehuda, Rav Kook, Imrei Emes, Adolf Büchler, Yehuda Leib Chasman, Isser Zalman Meltzer, Yaakov Chaim Sofer (Kaf HaChaim), Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky, Yechiel Michel Tukatchinsky, Yisrael Zev Mintzberg, Tzvi Pesach Frank, Yitzchak Isaac Sher, Zwi Perez Chajes, Martin Buber, Jacob Nachum Epstein, Chazon Ish, Mishpetei Uziel
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Shevet HaLeviשבט הלוי
Bnei Brak · 1965
Eleven-volume responsa work renowned for clarity and rigor, covering all sections of Shulchan Aruch. Particularly authoritative on questions of kashrut, niddah, and Shabbat.
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