Shlomo Carlebach

Shlomo Carlebach (August 17, 1925 – July 21, 2022) was a German-born American Haredi rabbi and scholar.

Carlebach was appointed mashgiach ruchani (spiritual supervisor) of the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin by its rosh yeshiva (dean) Yitzchak Hutner, following the departure of the previous mashgiach, Avigdor Miller. He was later terminated from this position during a power struggle with Hutner's disciples.

Carlebach was a cousin of the composer and musician Shlomo Carlebach.

Early life Shlomo Carlebach was born in Hamburg to Joseph Carlebach, the city's last chief rabbi and a scion of an illustrious German rabbinical family. His mother was Charlotte Helene Carlebach (née Preuss; 1900–1942).

World War II

In 1941, Carlebach's family was deported along with the entire Jewish community of Hamburg to the Jungfernhof concentration camp near Riga in Latvia. Carlebach's parents and his sisters Ruth, Noemi and Sara were killed in a forest near Riga in 1942.

Published works Torah commentary