Shmuel Schecter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Shmuel Schecter

Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1915

Place of Birth: Lachine, Quebec, Canada

Date of Death: 30-Sep-2000

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Shmuel Schecter

  • Shmuel Halevi Schecter (Hebrew: ????? ???? ?????, February 21, 1915 – September 30, 2000) was a Canadian–American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, educator, and author.
  • Born in Quebec and raised in Baltimore, he traveled to Eastern Europe to study at the Mir Yeshiva as a teenager and at the Kelm Talmud Torah as a young married man.
  • In 1940 he returned to the United States, where he was a co-founder of the first kollel in America, Beth Medrash Govoha, in White Plains, New York.
  • He was a Torah educator in New York and Boston for more than 50 years, and served as dean of Mesivta Toras Emes in Brooklyn.
  • He published a commentary on Orchot Chaim LeHoRosh, a musar work.

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