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RabbiYitzchok Scheiner
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)
Religious life
Religion	Judaism

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.

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.

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. His death occurred just hours after that of Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik. An estimated 8,000 mourners attended Scheiner's Jerusalem burial.

References

1. ^ "BDE: HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Scheiner, Z'TL, Rosh Yeshivas Kaminetz, Is Niftar From COVID". No. 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. "BDE: HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Scheiner, Z'TL, Rosh Yeshivas Kaminetz, Is Niftar From COVID". January 31, 2021.
5. and was a talmid (student) of R'Moshe Aharon Poleyeff Gedalia Guttentag (February 3, 2021). "For this we were created". Mishpacha.
6. Goldschmiedt, Yossi (January 31, 2021). "Hagaon Harav Yitzchak Scheiner, Zt"l, Rosh Yeshivas Kamenitz - Hamodia.com".
7. "Rabbi Yitzhok Scheiner, 98, dies of COVID during mass funeral of fellow top rabbi". www.timesofisrael.com.
8. "For 2nd time in day, thousands attend funeral of rabbi, flouting lockdown rules". The Times of Israel. 31 January 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021.

External links

• Nachman Seltzer, Rav Yitzchok Scheiner ISBN 9781422630990, Mesorah Publications, 2022

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