Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg
Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg חיים פנחס שיינברג | |
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Rabbi Scheinberg at a brit milah in 2004 | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg 1 October 1910 Ostrov, Poland |
| Died | 20 March 2012 (aged 101) |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse |
Bessie (Basha) Herman
(m. 1929; died 2009) |
| Children | Fruma Rochel Rivka Chana Zelda Alpert Simcha |
| Parent(s) | Yaakov Yitzchak Scheinberg and Yuspa (Yosefa) Tumback |
| Alma mater | RIETS Mir yeshiva (Belarus) |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Denomination | Haredi |
| Position | Rosh yeshiva |
| Yeshiva | Torah Ore |
| Began | 1960 |
| Residence | Jerusalem |
| Semikhah | RIETS - Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz |
Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg (Hebrew: חיים פנחס שיינברג; 1 October 1910 – 20 March 2012) was a Polish-born, American-raised, Israeli Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva who, from 1965, made his home in the Kiryat Mattersdorf neighborhood of Jerusalem. He was the rosh yeshiva of the Torah Ore yeshiva in Kiryat Mattersdorf and Yeshivas Derech Chaim in Brooklyn. He was a posek (decisor of Jewish law), Gadol HaDor, and one of the last living Torah scholars to have been educated in the yeshivas of prewar Europe. He was often consulted on a range of communal and personal halachic issues. He was one of the rabbinic leaders of Kiryat Mattersdorf, together with Rabbi Yisroel Gans and Rabbi Yitzchok Yechiel Ehrenfeld. He was also a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Israel.