Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg

Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg was born in 1910 in Ostrów

Scheinberg was born in Ostrov, Poland, in 1910, the second son of Yaakov Yitzchok and Yosefa Scheinberg. His father moved to America before World War I, and in 1919 the family joined him on the Lower East Side of New York.

He studied at the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School, at a yeshiva in New Haven, and at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. In 1929 he married Bessie, daughter of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Herman, and the couple moved to Mir, where he studied at the Mir yeshiva. He also studied at the Kaminetz yeshiva and received rabbinic ordination.

In 1935 the family returned to New York to keep their American citizenship. He served for 25 years as spiritual supervisor of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim in Queens and was rabbi of a Lower East Side congregation. In 1960 he opened the Torah Ore yeshiva in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

In 1965 he moved to Israel with his yeshiva, which later settled in Kiryat Mattersdorf in Jerusalem. He was a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah and wrote works on the books of Rabbi Aryeh Leib Heller.

He died in Jerusalem in 2012. About 100,000 people attended his funeral, and his son Simcha was named head of Torah Ore.