Rabbi
Yechiel Michel Pines
Personal
Born(1824-09-18)18 September 1824
Ruzhinoy, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire
Died15 March 1913(1913-03-15) (aged 88)
Jerusalem, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
ReligionJudaism

Yechiel Michel Pines (/piːnɪs/ PEE-nis)[1] (Hebrew: יְחִיאֵל מִיכְל פִּינֶס; 18 September 1824 – 15 March 1913) was a Russian-born religious Zionist rabbi, writer, and community leader in the Old Yishuv.

Yechiel Michel Pines was born at Ruzhinoy, near Grodno. He was the son of Noah Pines and the son-in-law of Shemariah Luria, rabbi of Mogilev. He received both a religious and secular Jewish education, and was mentored by Rabbi Mordechai Gimpel Jaffe, an early leader of Ḥovevei Zion.[2]

He later became a merchant, giving lectures at the same time in the yeshiva of his native town. He was elected delegate to a conference held in London by the association Mazkereth Moshe, for the establishment of charitable institutions in Palestine in commemoration of the name of Sir Moses Montefiore. In 1878 he settled in Jerusalem, at the home of his relative Yosef Rivlin, to establish and organize such institutions.[3]

At the end of his life, Pines was an instructor in Talmud at the Hebrew Teachers' Seminary in Jerusalem.[4]

Legacy

Yehiel Michel Pines Street in Jerusalem

There is a street named after Pines near Davidka Square in Jerusalem,[5] as well as streets in Rehovot, Ra'anana and Petah Tikvah. The Israeli religious moshav Kfar Pines is named after him.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rosenthal, Herman; Waldstein, A. S. (1905). "Pines, Jehiel Michael". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 46.

  1. ^ Udasin, Sharon (18 February 2011). "Week's end absurdities". The Jewish Week. New York. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  2. ^ Valakh, Shalom Me'ir ben Mordekhai (2004). The Seraph of Brisk: The Life of the Holy Gaon Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin. Feldheim Publishers. pp. 552–553. ISBN 978-1-58330-708-3.
  3. ^ "Yehiel Michael Pines". Jewish Virtual Library. AICE. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Rav Yehiel Michael Pines (1824–1912)". World Mizrahi Movement. 1 July 2014. Archived from the original on 17 December 2007. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  5. ^ Cidor, Peggy (12 March 2010). "This Week In Jerusalem". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 10 January 2021.


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