Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner

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Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner was a prominent 20th-century Haredi posek and Talmudic scholar, best known for his multi-volume halachic work "Shevet HaLevi."

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instanceOf Haredi Jew
Talmudic scholar
author
posek
rabbi
alsoKnownAs Ba'al Shevet HaLevi
Rav Shmuel HaLevi Wosner
areaOfExpertise Jewish law
practical halacha
birthCountry Austria
birthDate 1913-09-04
birthPlace Vienna
burialCountry Israel
burialPlace Bnei Brak
centuryActive 20th century
21st century
community Bnei Brak Haredi community
linked to: Bnei Brak
countryOfResidence Israel
deathCountry Israel
deathDate 2015-04-03
deathPlace Bnei Brak
ethnicGroup Ashkenazi Jew
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
fieldOfWork Halakha
Talmud
fullName Shmuel HaLevi Wosner
genre halachic responsa literature
honorificPrefix HaRav
linked to: Rabbi

Rabbi
honorificSuffix zt"l
influenced Haredi halachic practice in the 20th century
Haredi halachic practice in the 21st century
languageOfWork Hebrew
mainWork Shevet HaLevi
movedTo Mandatory Palestine
movementWithinJudaism Lithuanian-style Haredi world
notableFor Shevet HaLevi multi-volume responsa
halachic responsa
notableWorkType multi-volume responsa set
positionHeld posek in Bnei Brak
rosh yeshiva
rabbinicStatus leading posek of his generation
rabbinicTitle Gaon
Rav
religion Judaism
religiousMovement Haredi Judaism
linked to: Haredi Jews
wroteOnTopic Shabbat observance
contemporary halachic issues
family purity laws
kashrut

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Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner fullName Shmuel HaLevi Wosner
linked to: Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner
Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner alsoKnownAs Rav Shmuel HaLevi Wosner
linked to: Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner