Samuel ben Uri Shraga Phoebus was a Polish rabbi and Talmudist of Woydyslaw in the second half of the 17th century. In his early youth he was a pupil of Rabbi Heshel in Cracow, and on the latter's death he continued his studies under R. Heshel's successor, Rabbi Leib Fischeles, whose daughter he married. Samuel officiated as rabbi in Shydlow, Poland, whence he was called in September 1691 to the rabbinate of Fürth, Germany. The reason is not known; but he longed for his former rabbinate and returned to his former position in 1694. Samuel wrote a clear and comprehensive commentary, known as "Beit Shmuel", on the Shulhan Arukh Even ha'Ezer, which appeared in Dyhernfurth in 1689. However, being that he did not have with whom to discuss his work while he was first writing it, he later thoroughly revised it while serving as Rabbi in in Fürth, where he had the opportunity to collaborate with other scholars, and released a second edition in 1694. He wrote also several responsa and opinions, one of which is published in Ḥinnukh Bet Yehudah, No. 131. His daughter married R. Aaron Hart, the chief rabbi of the United Kingdom.
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