Rabbi Yitzchok Scheiner יצחק שיינר | |
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| Title | Rosh yeshiva |
| Personal life | |
| Born | (1922-05-11)May 11, 1922 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | January 31, 2021(2021-01-31) (aged 98) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Alma mater | Yeshiva Torah Vodaas Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS)[1] |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Yeshiva | Kamenitz yeshiva [he] |
RabbiYitzchok Scheiner (Hebrew:יצחק שיינר; November 5, 1922 – January 31, 2021) was an Israeli–American rabbi who was therosh yeshiva of theKamenitz yeshiva of Jerusalem.[2][3][4]
He was born in May 1922 inPittsburgh to immigrants fromPoland. He graduatedPeabody High School in 1938. Rabbi Avraham Bender was visiting Pittsburgh at that time, and he convinced Scheiner's parents to send their son to yeshiva in New York.[5] During the 1940s, he studied atYeshiva College (Yeshivas Rabbenu Yitzchok Elchonon)[6] and atYeshiva Torah Vodaas under RabbiShlomo Heiman.[1]
During the 1960s, he taught at a Yeshiva inMontreux, Switzerland.
After the death of his father-in-law (who was therosh 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 centralrosh 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 theMoetzes Gedolei HaTorah ofDegel HaTorah.
Toward the end of the 1940s, he married a granddaughter of RabbiBoruch Ber Leibowitz. His wife died in 2007. He lived in theKerem Avraham neighborhood in Jerusalem.
Scheiner died fromCOVID-19 during theCOVID-19 pandemic in Israel on 31 January 2021, at the age of 98.[7][8] His death occurred just hours after that of RabbiMeshulam Dovid Soloveitchik. An estimated 8,000 mourners attended Scheiner's Jerusalem burial.[9]
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