Rabbi Yitzchok Scheiner | |
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Title | Rosh yeshiva |
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Born | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. | May 11, 1922
Died | January 31, 2021 Jerusalem, Israel | (aged 98)
Religion | Judaism |
Alma mater | Yeshiva Torah Vodaas Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS)[1] |
Yeshiva | Kamenitz yeshiva |
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][4]
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)[5] and at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas under Rabbi Shlomo Heiman.[1]
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.
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.[6][7] His death occurred just hours after that of Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik. An estimated 8,000 mourners attended Scheiner's Jerusalem burial.[8]