R. Shmuel, A.B.D. Kremenets, Wolyn

GEDCOM Note

From M. Dworzhetsky, the History of Jewish Wladimir, in Pinkas Ludmir; sefer zikaron le-kehilat Ludmir:

The second son of Rabbi Ephraim Fischel, Rabbi Shmuel, was the head of the rabbinic court in Kremenets in Wolyn and found an important place in the rabbinic world.

We know, for example, in the matter of the great controversy between Rabbi Shraga Feiwel Teomim and his rabbinic congregants of Przemysl, in which the rabbi supported his case in the work Teka Shofar (in the year 1718), Rabbi Shmuel, the head of the rabbinic court in Kremenets, appear among the rabbis taking his side.

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R' Shmuel purchased his position of Rabbi from the governmental authorities. This position was quite lucrative and the Rabbi was not necessarily popular with the Jews of the community.*

1708 (4th of Kislev, 5468): Participated in a decision of the Council of the Four Lands in Yaroslav and signed his name with the surname Averbukh - suggesting that David Tzvi Averbukh was his brother.****

1711: R' Shmuel's approbation of the book Torat Chayim (Living Torah) given in Kremenets.**

1718: During the Council of Four Lands at the Yaroslav fair, one of the signatories on a judicial ruling was "R' Shmuel the Insignificant of Ludmir, who dwells in the holy community of Kremenets and the district [?], who is mentioned above.[Heilprin**, pp. 277, 279, 280, 528.] During the same council, he signed a ban on the publication of the book Pnei Moshe (The Face of Moses).[Heilprin*** p. 500]

1720: The Volin District Council met in Kozin. The rabbi of Kremenets, R' Shmuel, son of Efraim of Ludmir, and R' Moshe, son of Menachem Mendil Margolit, participated as emissaries of Kremenets.[Heilprin*** p. 277]

• Ettinger & Shamrock. (history of Kremenetz) (in Hebrew)
  • Fridberg, The History of Hebrew Printing in Poland, Tel Aviv 1939 (quoted in Pinkas Kremenets)
    • Israel Heilprin, ed. Pinkas Vaad Arba Arazo [Register of the Council of Four Lands]. Jerusalem, 1945 (quoted in Pinkas Kremenets)
      • Kremenitz yisgor book, 1965 (Argentina), p. 29

Two wives are listed, as different sources list different wives.