Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Rosh yeshiva, posek
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About Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg
- Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg (Hebrew: ???? ???? ????????;? 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, Israel.
- 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.
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