Prominent Rabbinic Judge Rabbi Nachum Sheinin Dies
Rabbi Nachum Sheinin, senior member of Israel's Great Rabbinical Court and beloved Torah authority who trained thousands of students, has passed away in his eighties.
The Torah and rabbinical court world is mourning the passing of Rabbi Nachum Sheinin, a senior member of Israel's Great Rabbinical Court (Beis Din HaGadol) and former head of the Tel Aviv Regional Rabbinical Court. He was in his eighties when he passed away.
Rabbi Sheinin was born to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Sheinin, the spiritual supervisor of the Rehovot yeshiva. He studied at the Or Yisrael yeshiva in Petah Tikva before going on to the prestigious Ponevezh yeshiva in Bnei Brak, where he became known as one of its brightest minds. He later married into the Cohen family and built a home of Torah and yiras shamayim in Bnei Brak.
For many years he served as head of the Tel Aviv Regional Rabbinical Court, where he was known for resolving complex cases including agunot until 2007. In 2008 he was elevated to serve as a dayan on the Great Rabbinical Court in Jerusalem, one of the highest positions in Israel's rabbinical judicial system.
Alongside his judicial work, Rabbi Sheinin served as rosh kollel of Kollel Tov HaTorah and as rabbi of the Heichal Moshe Yitzchak synagogue in Bnei Brak, where he was beloved by his community. Beginning in 2020, he published a weekly Torah journal called "Masa Nachum," which gathered his chiddushim and halachic rulings and was warmly received in Torah circles across the country.
He is survived by his sons Rabbi Shimon and Rabbi Avraham, directors of the Otzar HaYerushalmi Institute, and his brother, Rabbi Yosef Sheinin, the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Ashdod.
The levaya will take place Thursday (today), leaving at 3:30 p.m. from his beis midrash at 16 Baal Shem Tov Street in Bnei Brak, with burial at the Ponevezh yeshiva cemetery. The family is sitting shiva at 16 Rashi Street in Bnei Brak.
May his soul be bound up in the bond of eternal life.