Harav Elchonon Scheinerman, Zt”l
Harav Elchonon Scheinerman, Zt”l By Peshie Needleman all credit goes to Peshie Needleman & Hamodia Monday, June 19, 2017 at 2:55 pm | כ"ה סיון תשע"ז Harav Elchonon Scheinerman, zt”l Harav Elchonon Scheinerman was niftar at the age of 98 on Shabbos Parashas Shlach . He was one of the few remaining talmidim of Hagaon Harav Yeruchim Levovitz, zt”l, in the Mir. Rav Elchonon was one of the nine children in the Scheinerman family who grew up frum in Washington, D.C., in the 1920s. When the Depression hit, the family moved to New York, on the advice of Harav Yaakov Yosef Herman, zt”l . At the age of 15, Elchonon was sent to Mir in Lithuania. First he learned in Baranovitch, under Harav Elchonon Wasserman, zt”l, for two years and then learned in Mir for four years. He got semichah from the Mir and learned shechitah there as well. His original plan was to learn there for years, but when the War hit Europe, Reb Chaim Ozer advised the talmidim to escape to America. The ...
