Shmuel Schecter
| Rabbi Shmuel Schecter | |
|---|---|
| Position | Dean |
| Yeshiva | Mesivta Toras Emes, Brooklyn |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Shmuel Halevi Schecter |
| Born |
February 21, 1915 Lachine, Quebec |
| Died | September 30, 2000 (aged 85) Jerusalem |
| Yahrtzeit | 1 Tishrei 5761 |
| Denomination | Orthodox Judaism |
| Spouse | Chava Gordon |
| Children | 6 |
| Alma mater |
Yeshivas Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Mir Yeshiva, Poland Kelm Talmud Torah |
| Semicha | Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (Mir Poland) |
Shmuel Halevi Schecter (Hebrew: שמואל הלוי שכטר, 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.
Shmuel Schecter was born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada. His mother died when he was four or five years old. Per his mother's request, at the age of seven he was sent to live with her brother, Rabbi Meshulam Zusha Cohen, a Torah educator in Baltimore.
At the age of 13 Schecter's uncle sent him to New York City to study at Yeshivas Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan. Together with his new friends and fellow students Nosson Meir Wachtfogel and Avigdor Miller, he attended a secret shiur in Mesillas Yesharim given by Yaakov Yosef Herman in a yeshiva dormitory. Herman encouraged him to travel to Eastern Europe to learn at the Mir Yeshiva, which he did at age 17, having completed his four-year high school course requirements in three years by attending night school. Schecter's father paid for chavrusas (study partners) to tutor him at the Mir to bring his academic level up to that of the European students. He remained at the Mir for four years and received rabbinical ordination from the rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel ("Reb Leizer Yudel"). He and Wachtfogel returned to New York after the death of the mashgiach, Rabbi Yerucham Levovitz, in 1936.
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