Yitzchok Scheiner
Rabbi Yitzchok Scheiner | |
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| Title | Rosh yeshiva |
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| Born | May 11, 1922 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | January 31, 2021 (aged 98) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Alma mater | Yeshiva Torah Vodaas Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS)[1] |
| Yeshiva | Kamenitz yeshiva |
Rabbi Yitzchok Scheiner (November 5, 1922 – January 31, 2021) was an Israeli–American rabbi who was the rosh yeshiva of the Kamenitz yeshiva of Jerusalem.[2][3][4]
Early life and education
[edit]He was born in May 1922 in Pittsburgh to immigrants from Poland. He graduated Peabody High School in 1938. During the 1940s, he studied at Yeshiva College (Yeshivas Rabbenu Yitzchok Elchonon)[5] and at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas under Rabbi Shlomo Heiman.[1]
Career
[edit]During the 1960s, he taught at a Yeshiva in Montreux, Switzerland.
After the death of his father-in-law (who was the rosh yeshiva of the Kamenitz yeshiva in Jerusalem), Rabbi Scheiner headed the yeshiva alongside his brother-in-law. After the death of his brother-in-law in 1998, Rabbi Scheiner served as the central rosh yeshiva with his brother-in-law's son at his side. Rabbi Scheiner's two sons and his son-in-law also teach at the yeshiva.
In the 1990s, he became a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Degel HaTorah.
Personal life
[edit]Toward the end of the 1940s, he married a granddaughter of Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz. His wife died in 2007. He lived in the Kerem Avraham neighborhood in Jerusalem.
Scheiner died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel on 31 January 2021, at the age of 98.[6][7] His death occurred just hours after that of Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik. An estimated 8,000 mourners attended Scheiner's Jerusalem burial.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "BDE: HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Scheiner, Z'TL, Rosh Yeshivas Kaminetz, Is Niftar From COVID". No. January 31, 2021. The Yeshiva World.com. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
- ^ Hamodia. Dec/19/12. p. C10.
- ^ שמחת נישואי נינת ראש ישיבת קמניץ ונכדת חבר הבד"ץ העדה החרדית. jdn.co.il (in Hebrew). Feb 2016. Retrieved Apr 20, 2016.
- ^ "BDE: HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Scheiner, Z'TL, Rosh Yeshivas Kaminetz, Is Niftar From COVID". January 31, 2021.
- ^ and was a talmid (student) of R'Moshe Aharon Poleyeff Gedalia Guttentag (February 3, 2021). "For this we were created". Mishpacha.
- ^ Hagaon Harav Yitzchak Scheiner, Zt”l, Rosh Yeshivas Kamenitz
- ^ Rabbi Yitzhok Scheiner, 98, dies of COVID during mass funeral of fellow top rabbi
- ^ TOI STAFF (31 January 2021). "For 2nd time in day, thousands attend funeral of rabbi, flouting lockdown rules". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
External links
[edit]- Nachman Seltzer, Rav Yitzchok Scheiner, Mesorah Publications, 2022.
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