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Сила Теилим

15 Nisan · Yahrzeit

Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner - the "Shevet HaLevi"

Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner (1913 - 2015) - the "Shevet HaLevi" Yahrzeit - 15 Nissan Place of burial - Bnei Brak He was a well-known rabbi and posek in Bnei Brak. Wosner was born in Vienna, Austro-Hungary, and studied at the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in Poland under Rabbi Meir Shapiro. He was also a student of Rabbi Shimon of Zelikov, who served as the yeshiva's official head. In Vienna he became friends with Rabbi Chanoch Dov Padwa of Galicia. He married and immigrated to Palestine before the Holocaust and settled in Jerusalem, where he studied at the Dushinsky Yeshiva. It was during this time that, despite his young age, he became a member of the Eda Chareidis. When he moved to Bnei Brak, at the initiative of the Chazon Ish, Rabbi Dov Berish Weidenfeld of Chebin, Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, and Rabbi Yitzchak HaLevi Herzog, he established the "Zichron Meir" neighborhood and the "Chachmei Lublin" Yeshiva, bearing the same name as the one in Lublin where he had studied in his youth. He is the author of several works on Jewish law, including "Shevet HaLevi" ("Tribe of Levi"), an extensive ten-volume series of halachic rulings and responsa on Jewish law. His halachic opinions are widely cited in many works on Jewish law, both in Hebrew and in English. On May 20, 2012, the Ichud HaKehillos LeTohar HaMachane held a gathering at Citi Field in Queens to discuss the dangers of the Internet. Wosner addressed 60,000 attendees live from Israel. He prohibited the use of unfiltered internet for the Jewish community and permitted filtered internet only for business purposes. He passed away in Bnei Brak at the age of 101. Among his sons is Rabbi Chaim Wosner, a former dayan of the Satmar community of London, who moved to Bnei Brak to help his father run the yeshiva. Another son, Rabbi Bentzion Wosner of Monsey, New York, is the Av Beit Din of "Shevet HaLevi." Another son, Yosef Wosner, is a businessman from Brooklyn, New York. May the merit of the Tzadik protect Am Yisrael!   (https://dailyzohar.com/tzadikim/1190-Rabbi-Shmuel-HaLevi-Wosner)