Yitzchok Scheiner

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]

Rabbi

Yitzchok Scheiner
TitleRosh yeshiva
Personal
Born(1922-05-11)May 11, 1922
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedJanuary 31, 2021(2021-01-31) (aged 98)
Jerusalem, Israel
ReligionJudaism
Alma materYeshiva Torah Vodaas[1]
YeshivaKamenitz yeshiva
Rabbi Scheiner in 2007

Early life and education

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) and at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas under Rabbi Shlomo Heiman.[1]

Career

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

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.[4][5] His death occurred just hours after that of Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, who also died from COVID-related causes.[6] An estimated 8,000 mourners attended Sheiner's Jerusalem burial.[7]

References
  1. "BDE: HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Scheiner, Z'TL, Rosh Yeshivas Kaminetz, Is Niftar From COVID" (January 31, 2021). The Yeshiva World.com. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  2. Hamodia. Dec/19/12. p. C10.
  3. שמחת נישואי נינת ראש ישיבת קמניץ ונכדת חבר הבד"ץ העדה החרדית. jdn.co.il (in Hebrew). Feb 2016. Retrieved Apr 20, 2016.
  4. Hagaon Harav Yitzchak Scheiner, Zt”l, Rosh Yeshivas Kamenitz
  5. Rabbi Yitzhok Scheiner, 98, dies of COVID during mass funeral of fellow top rabbi
  6. Thousands Break COVID Rules at Rabbi Meshulam Soloveitchik's Funeral
  7. 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.


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