Rabbi Jacob Samson of Shepetovka (Hebrew: יעקב שמשון משפיטובקה) (1720 – 15 May 1801) was a member of the third generation of the early Hasidic movement.
Jacob was born to Rabbi Yitzhak of Slavuta, Shepetivka, Uman (Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth), and Be'er.
The debate was recounted in Emery Noam by Rabbi Moshe Leib Shapira.
He travelled abroad in order to raise money for Polish immigrants living in Israel.
Jacob provided the money quickly to the emissary in fear that they would be caught by Ottoman authorities for trying to arrange funds for travel back to Europe.