Yitzchok Scheiner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Yitzchok Scheiner

rabbi

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1922

Place of Birth: United States of America, United States

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Yitzchok Scheiner

  • Rabbi Yitzchok Scheiner (born November 5, 1922) is the rosh yeshiva of the Kamenitz yeshiva of Jerusalem.He was born in the United States to American immigrants from Poland.
  • During the 1940s, he studied at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas under Rabbi Shlomo Heiman.
  • Toward the end of the 1940s, he married a granddaughter of Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz. 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 with his brother-in-law.
  • Since the death of his brother-in-law in 1998, Rabbi Scheiner serves 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. His wife died in 2007.
  • He lives in the Kerem Avraham neighborhood in Jerusalem.

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