Rav Shmuel Shmaryahu Heine was born in 5518/1758. He was the son of Rav Yaakov of Zhvalin, a grandson of Rav Shmuel of Fiorda (mechaber of Beis Shmuel on Even HaEzer). He was also a descendant of the Rema.
Rav Shmuel was a talmid of the Kozhnitzer Maggid, the Chozeh of Lublin and the Yehudi Hakadosh of Peshis'cha.
After their petiros, he traveled to Rav Yerachmiel of Peshis'cha and Rav Moshe Elyakim Biyeh of Kozhnitz.
Rav Shmuel served as Rav in Ostrovtza for close to fifty years. He was also Rosh Yeshiva in the city, teaching multitudes of bochurim. Among the more famous: Rav Shimshon, Rav of Kintzk; Rav Dov Berish, Rav of Zelichov; and Rav Moshe Yehudah, Rav of Konstantin.
Rav Shmuel was niftar on 29 Sivan, Erev Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, 5607/1847, at the age of 89, and buried in Ostrovtza.
He wrote many chiddushim on the Torah and in drush, including divrei Torah from his rebbes that were unknown — he serves as the only source for these divrei Torah. They were published some eighty years after his petira by his grandsons as Zichron Shmuel. The sefer carries the haskamos of many of the generation's foremost Gedolim: Rav Meir Yechiel of Ostrovtza; the Knesses Yechezkel of Radomsk; Rav Shalom Mordechai of Brezhan, and others.
Zecher tzaddik livracha.
