Senior haredi Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Wosner, known as the Shevet Halevi
after the series of books on Jewish law he has authored, reportedly
celebrated his 100th birthday yesterday by drinking a brief toast with
several generations of his immediate family and then returning to his
daily study routine with a student.
Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Wosner
A Haredi Leader Turns 100
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Senior haredi Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Wosner, known as the Shevet Halevi after the series of books on Jewish law he has authored, reportedly celebrated his 100th birthday yesterday by drinking a brief toast with several generations of his immediate family and then returning to his daily study routine with a student.
Wosner founded the Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin in Bnei Brak in memory of the yeshiva in Poland where he studied as a youth.
Last year, Wosner traveled to New York speak at the large haredi anti-Internet rally held in the Citifield stadium there.
Wosner is the go-to posek (decisor) of Jewish legal issues for much of the non-Hungarian and non-Chabad hasidic community in Israel.