Rabbi Wolf Boskowitz

Communal rabbi and author, Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev (Wolf) Boskowitz ha-Levi was a leading halachic figure in late 18th- and early 19th-century Hungary and Moravia. A son of Rabbi Shmuel Kolin, he served in several important rabbinates before his long tenure as rabbi of Bonyhad, and authored commentaries on the Mishneh Torah, the Babylonian Talmud, and tractate Eduyyot, as well as derashot collected under the title Ma'amar Esther. His glosses on the Babylonian Talmud were incorporated into the Vienna edition of 1830, helping to secure his place in the later halachic and lomdus tradition.