death_date children nationality denomination birth_date residence alma_mater death_place yeshiva spouse image name yeshivaposition caption birth_place parents semicha article_title birth_name began
20 march 2012 fruma rochel rivka chana zelda simcha american haredi 1 october 1910 jerusalem , israel riets mir yeshiva -lrb- belarus -rrb- jerusalem , israel torah ore bessie -lrb- basha -rrb- herman rabbi scheinberg at a bris mila edit.jpg chaim pinchas scheinberg rosh yeshiva rabbi scheinberg at a brit milah in 2004 ostrov , poland yaakov yitzchak scheinberg and yuspa -lrb- yosefa -rrb- tumback riets - rabbi boruch ber leibowitz chaim pinchas scheinberg
 chaim pinchas scheinberg 1960
chaim pinchas scheinberg

chaim pinchas scheinberg -lrb- ; 1 october 1910 -- 20 march 2012 -rrb- 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 -lrb- decisor of jewish law -rrb- , 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 .
