Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg dies at 101

Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, who was the dean of the Torah Ohr yeshiva and considered one of ultra-Orthodoxy’s leading sages, passed away in Jerusalem late Tuesday at age 101.

Scheinberg was born in Poland in 1910, moved to the United States as a boy, and immigrated to Israel in the mid-1960s. He became well-known for his scholarship as well as for his habit of wearing dozens of pairs of tzitzit, or ritual fringes, at one time.