Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg

Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg (;‎ 1 October 1910 – 20 March 2012) 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.

Early years Scheinberg was born in Ostrov, Poland,

At age 9 he moved with his family to an apartment on the Lower East Side. Scheinberg enrolled in the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School where he studied until he was 14, when Yaakov Yosef Herman encouraged him to go to Rabbi Yehuda Levenberg's Beis Medrash LeRabbonim yeshiva in New Haven, Connecticut, where no secular subjects were taught. Herman also wanted Scheinberg to marry his daughter, Bessie, who was then only 12 years old. Scheinberg left the yeshiva at the age of sixteen and a half, having studied the entire Talmud. and one of the few American students. New York In 1935 the Scheinbergs returned to America because his American citizenship would have expired after more than five years abroad.

The Scheinbergs, their daughter Fruma Rochel and her family, their son Simcha and his family, and over 20 of Scheinberg's students moved into their new homes in May 1965. Rabbi Asa Wittow, a married student who had learned under Scheinberg since 1960 and who also served as his driver in New York, made aliyah with him and moved into the same apartment building. His approbation was sought for many Hebrew- and English-language halacha books for adults and children. The English sefer Rigshei Lev: Women and tefillah – perspectives, laws and customs cites his halachic opinions extensively. In 2000, his neighborhood lectures to English-speaking women were compiled in a book titled Heart to Heart Talks, published by ArtScroll.

Later life

His wife died on 21 October 2009 at the age of 96 after over 79 years of marriage.

Scheinberg died in the Shaare Zedek Medical Center of Jerusalem at the age of 101 on 20 March 2012 (27 Adar 5772) after a brief illness. He had an inflammation in the kidneys and an infection in his vascular system. An estimated 70,000 people attended his funeral,