The Shem MiShmuel—Rabbi Shmuel Bornsztain of Sochatchov רבי שמואל בורנשטיין מסוכטשוב — שם משמואל
the second rebbe of Sochatchov; author of the Shem MiShmuel
He was born in Kotzk on 4 Cheshvan 1855: his father, Rabbi Avraham Bornsztain, was then living at his father-in-law's court, and through his mother he was the Kotzker's grandson. As a boy he moved with his father from place to place—Parczew, Krosniewice, Nasielsk—until his father took the rabbinate of Sochaczew.
He took the court in 1910, after his father's death, and it is said he took it unwillingly, fearing that the court would take the time of study. His first work was to publish his father's responsa, the Avnei Nezer.
The Shem MiShmuel is his own discourses on the weekly portions and the festivals, spoken between 1910 and 1926; they came out after his death, in nine volumes in Piotrkow. He died on 24 Tevet 1926 in Otwock. His son Rabbi David took the court.
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Acharonim and later rabbinic literature
- The Shem MiShmuel—discourses on the weekly portions and the festivals — the book he is named by; spoken between 1910 and 1926
Documents of the period
- The catalogue entry of the first edition of the Shem MiShmuel, Piotrkow — nine volumes, published after his death
Scholarship
- The archival account of the Sochatchov house — the day of death, 24 Tevet 1926, and the court's move
Basis: documents and evidence.