Person · 5673–5775 AM · 1913 CE — 2015 CE
Rav Shmuel Wosner—Shevet ha-Levi רבי שמואל הלוי ואזנר
the last student of Lublin, become the posek of Bnei Brak
He was born in Vienna in 5673 (1913) and studied at the Chachmei Lublin yeshiva under Rav Meir Shapiro—and outlived that world. He was rabbi of the Zichron Meir quarter and head of the Chachmei Lublin yeshiva in Bnei Brak—carrying Lublin to new ground by its very name.
Shevet ha-Levi—ten volumes of responsa on questions of law—is among the chief bodies of ruling of our time.
He lived a hundred and one years. At ninety-eight he spoke before sixty thousand in a New York stadium; about a hundred thousand came to his funeral in 2015.
On the timeline
5706 · 1946 CERebuilding after the War: DP Camps and New Yeshivot5780 · 2020 CEThe Flourishing of Torah Study and Daf Yomi
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Acharonim and later rabbinic literature
- Shevet ha-Levi, ten volumes — responsa across every division of halakhah
Scholarship
- The standard rabbinic reference works and encyclopedias — Vienna, Lublin, Bnei Brak and a hundred and one years
Basis: Talmud and midrash.