Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz

He was born in Łęczyca (also known as Luntschitz) and studied under Solomon Luria in Lublin, and subsequently served as rosh yeshiva (dean) of the yeshiva in Lvov (Lemberg).

In the introduction of his Keli Yekar he relates that the name Shlomo was added to his name during life-threatening illness, a common practice in Judaism.

Luntschitz is best remembered for his homiletical work, most prominently Keli Yekar ('precious vessel', an allusion to Proverbs 20:15) on the Torah which first appeared in Lublin in 1602.

It is still printed in many editions of the Pentateuch and continues to be highly popular.

He composed two penitential prayers in commemoration of the 1611 pogroms that hit Prague on the 2nd of Adar on the Jewish calendar.