Shmuel Leib Levin

Shmuel-Leib Yankelevich Levin was a Russian Hasidic rabbi who served as the chief rabbi of Moscow for a brief period in 1943. He was known among Chabad hasidim as Shmuel Leib Paritcher, based on his birth place of Paritch.

Biography

Levin was born in Paritch, Russian Empire in 1890, and studied at Yeshiva of Tomchei Temimim in Lyubavichi. After marrying the daughter of Rabbi Meir Simcha Chein of Nevel, he served as a maggid shiur in Tomchei Temimim's branch in Horodyshche, and later as a mashpia in its Poltava branch. In 1943, he was appointed as the chief rabbi of Moscow. Shortly after his appointment, the Moscow Jewish community's official board decided to remove him from his position, feeling he was too extreme. He was replaced by Shlomo Shleifer.