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He was considered to be among the foremost Jewish scholars of his generation and among the last polish Torah giants. He possessed sufficient [[Talmud | Talmudic]] fluency to pass the "pin test" - a test in which a pin is driven through any word on the first page of a talmudic tractate and the test taker must recite all of the words that the pin travels through. The students of [[Tomchei Temimim]] of Montreal would test him by presenting him with a [[Tosfos]] or [[Rashi]] that had fallen out of a Gemarah and ask him which tractate and page they should return it to. |
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Revision as of 00:31, 26 February 2008
Rabbi Pinchas Hirschsprung (1912-1998[1]) was an eminent Chabad Rabbi.
Life
He was born to Rabbi Chaim Hirschsprung in the city of Dukla in 1912. He first learned with his grandfather Rabbi Dovid Tzvi Zehmin (who was also the teacher of the Rebbe of Kloizenberg) and later became the prime student of Rabbi Meir Shapiro of Lublin. Rabbi Shapiro said about him that already as a youth he knew 2,200 talmudic folios by heart[2]. After he reached the age of bar-mitzvah, he wrote his first book of Torah novellae, "Pri Pinchas" and then went on to write another book "Ohel Torah" soon after. After Rabbi Shapiro passed away in 1933, Rabbi Hirschsprung would test prospective students for admitance to the Lublin Yeshiva. During World War II, he escaped to Kobe, Japan via Lithuania and then traveled on to Shanghai. In 1941, he reached Canada on the last boat to leave before the attack on Pearl Harbor.[3]
Rabbinate
Rabbi Hirschsprung was the prime student of Rabbi Meir Shapiro (who headed the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva). He served as the chief Rabbi of Montreal from 1969 [4] until his passing on January 25, 1998.
Scholarship
He was considered to be among the foremost Jewish scholars of his generation and among the last polish Torah giants. He possessed sufficient Talmudic fluency to pass the "pin test" - a test in which a pin is driven through any word on the first page of a talmudic tractate and the test taker must recite all of the words that the pin travels through. The students of Tomchei Temimim of Montreal would test him by presenting him with a Tosfos or Rashi that had fallen out of a Gemarah and ask him which tractate and page they should return it to.
References
- ^ http://www.chevrahlomdeimishnah.org/Yartzeit-details.asp?hMonth=Teves&Day=27
- ^ Wolpo, SB. Shemen Sasson MeChavreicha.Cholon (1995) pg.173-178
- ^ Shuchat, Wilfred (2000). The Gate of Heaven: The Story of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim of Montreal, 1846-1996. McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 156–157. ISBN 0773520899.
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