Rabbi Shmuel (Halevi) Wosner celebrated his 100th birthday on the Hebrew calendar, Thursday, with close members of his family. Relatives said, Friday, that the emphasis was on modesty with only the raising of a glass to drink to the toast of Lechayim to life with three generations of descendants. He did not interrupt his routine, spending the day studying Torah with his student, Rabbi Moshe Shaul Klein.
Rabbi Wosner is known as the Ba'al Shevet Halevi for a series of halakhic (Jewish legal) rulings and other books about Torah that bear the name Shevet Halevi. He established the Yeshiva Hachmei Lublin in Bnei Brak in memory of the institution where he studied as a youth. Last year, he spoke to 60,000 orthodox Jews at New York's Citifield stadium against the general use of unfiltered Internet, allowing filtered Internet use for business purposes.