This article is about the 18th century rabbi. For the British politiican, see Samuel Lowe. For the offering known as the "half-Shekel", see Shekel.
Samuel ben Nathan Ha-Levi Loew (Kelin or Kolin) (also "Lōw" or "Löw", Hebrew: שמואל בן נתן נטע הלוי קעלין; c. 1720–1806) was a Talmudist and Halakhist, best known for his work Machatzit HaShekel (Ashkenazi pronunciation, Machatzis HaShekel).
The son of Nathan Naṭe ha-Levi, he was born at Kolín, Bohemia. For nearly 60 years he headed over a yeshiva at Boskovice (Boskowitz), Moravia, where he died on May 20, 1806. He had the title Av Beis Din of Boskowitz.[1]
Samuel had 3 sons and 3 daughters: Benjamin Ze'ev Ha-Levi (Wolf) Boskowitz (1746-1818), Jacob (c 1750-1833), Jehuda (c 1751-1800), Sara (Hinda) married Markus (Mordechai Lob) Wassertrilling of Boskovice, Esther married Bernhard Biach.
His son Wolf Boskowitz delivered the sermon at his funeral.[2] His descendant in the 5th generation, Dr. Max Anton Löw, a convert to Roman Catholicism, was the attorney of the anti-Semite Francis Deckert.[3]
His works were published under the name Machatzit HaShekel as follows; these commentaries appear nowadays in most editions of the Shulchan Aruch:
An extensive super-commentary on Abraham Abele Gombiner’s Magen Abraham on Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim (Vienna, 1807-1808; 2d ed. 1817; several times reprinted)
A super-commentary on the "Shakh" on Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh DeahHilchot Niddah (Lemberg, 1858) and Hilchot Melichah (ib. 1860)
^By line to Machatzit haShekel on Yoreh De’ah
^Ma’amar Esther, Ofen, 1837
^Mittheilungen der Gesell. zur Abwehr des Antisemitismus, 1896, pp. 45, 48; 1897, pp. 190, 216; Oest. Wochenschrift, 1896, p. 65
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