Chaim Pinchus Scheinberg
| Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg | |
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Rabbi Scheinberg at a brit milah in 2004
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| Position | Rosh yeshiva |
| Yeshiva | Torah Ore |
| Began | 1960 |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg |
| Born | 1 October 1910 Ostrov, Poland |
| Died | 20 March 2012 (aged 101) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Nationality | American |
| Denomination | Haredi |
| Residence | Jerusalem, Israel |
| Parents | Yaakov Yitzchak Scheinberg and Yuspa (Yosefa) Tumback |
| Spouse | Bessie (Basha) Herman |
| Children | Fruma Rochel Rivka Chana Zelda Simcha |
| Alma mater |
RIETS Mir yeshiva (Belarus) |
| Semicha | 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, 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.
Rav Scheinberg was born in Ostrov, Poland, the second son of Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Scheinberg and Yuspa (Yosefa) Tamback. He was born in his father's absence, as earlier that year, his father had left his wife and firstborn son Avraham Nosson to go to America to avoid conscription into the Polish army. Though he planned to work and send money back home, his father was fired from job after job because he refused to work on the Jewish Sabbath. Soon he did not have enough money to rent a room, and spent months sleeping on New York City's East River Drive with a pillow, a blanket, and an umbrella. Meanwhile, his mother, who had moved in with her parents, also struggled to make ends meet, milking cows at dawn for Polish farmers. With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the family lost contact. By 1919, the family patriarch had saved enough money to open his own tailor shop and brought his wife and children to America.
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