Yitzchok Scheiner

Israeli–American rabbi (1922–2021)

Rabbi

Yitzchok Scheiner

Title| Rosh yeshiva
Personal
Born| (1922-05-11)May 11, 1922

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Died| January 31, 2021(2021-01-31) (aged 98)

Jerusalem, Israel

Religion| Judaism
Alma mater| Yeshiva Torah Vodaas
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS)[1]
Yeshiva| Kamenitz yeshiva [he]

Rabbi Scheiner in 2007

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]

## Early life and education[edit]

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]

## Career[edit]

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[edit]

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]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "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. ^ Hagaon Harav Yitzchak Scheiner, Zt”l, Rosh Yeshivas Kamenitz
7. ^ Rabbi Yitzhok Scheiner, 98, dies of COVID during mass funeral of fellow top rabbi
8. ^ 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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Europe
World Agudath Israel|

| Past members|

* Avraham Mordechai Alter
* Meir Arik
* Dovid Bornsztain
* Shlomo Zalman Breuer
* Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky
* Meir Simcha of Dvinsk
* Moshe Mordechai Epstein
* Avraham Yaakov Friedman
* Chaim Ozer Grodzinski
* Yisrael Meir Kagan
* Aharon Kotler
* Yitzchak Zelig Morgenstern
* Meir Dan Plotzky
* Yitzhak Yaakov Rabinovich
* Sholom Dovber Schneersohn
* Meir Shapiro
* Chaim Soloveitchik
* Zalman Sorotzkin
* Yehuda Leib Tsirelson
* Shmuel Dovid Ungar
* Elchonon Wasserman
* Menachem Ziemba

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Israel
Agudat Yisrael
Degel HaTorah|

| Past members|

* Pinchas Menachem Alter
* Simcha Bunim Alter
* Yisrael Alter
* Shlomo Zalman Auerbach
* Yosef Shalom Eliashiv
* Aryeh Finkel
* Nosson Tzvi Finkel
* Avraham Yaakov Friedman
* Avraham Yaakov Friedman
* Yisroel Moshe Friedman
* Levi Yitzchak Horowitz
* Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz
* Isser Zalman Meltzer
* Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg
* Yitzchok Scheiner
* Elazar Menachem Shach
* Yitzchak Isaac Sher
* Yochanan Sofer
* Zalman Sorotzkin
* Dov Yaffe
* Shabsi Yogel

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Present members|

* Yaakov Aryeh Alter
* Nachum Dov Brayer
* Menachem Mendel Hager
* Zvi Elimelech Halberstam
* Mayer Alter Horowitz
* Yissachar Dov Rokeach
* Gershon Edelstein
* Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi
* Moshe Hillel Hirsch
* Baruch Dov Povarsky
* Chaim Kanievsky
* Yitzchok Zilberstein

United States
Agudath Israel of America|

| Past members|

* Dovid Feinstein
* Moshe Feinstein
* Mordechai Shlomo Friedman
* Mordechai Gifter
* Refael Reuvain Grozovsky
* Shlomo Heiman
* Levi Yitzchak Horowitz
* Yitzchok Hutner
* Yaakov Kamenetsky
* Chaim Mordechai Katz
* Aharon Kotler
* Shneur Kotler
* Avraham Yaakov Pam
* Yaakov Perlow
* Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman
* Gedalia Schorr
* Eliezer Silver
* Joseph B. Soloveitchik
* Baruch Sorotzkin
* Yisrael Spira
* Elya Svei
* Mendel Zaks

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* Elya Brudny
* Aharon Feldman
* Shmuel Kamenetsky
* Malkiel Kotler
* Shlomo Miller
* Yerucham Olshin
* Aaron Schechter
* Yitzchok Sorotzkin

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