Pinchas Hirschprung was a Polish-Canadian rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva, who served as Chief Rabbi of Montreal from 1969 until his death.
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11 Facts About Pinhas Hirschprung
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Pinchas Pinhas Hirschprung was born in 1912 to Leah and Rabbi Chaim Pinhas Hirschprung in the Galician shtetl Dukla.
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Pinhas Hirschprung received his early religious education from his grandfather, later becoming a student of Rabbi Meir Shapiro at Yeshivat Hakhmei Lublin.
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Pinhas Hirschprung purportedly wrote his first sefer, Pri Pinchas, at the age of 13, and, according to Shapiro, knew all 2,200 folio pages of the Talmud by heart as a youth.
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Pinhas Hirschprung began teaching at the Yeshiva after his ordination in 1932, and became its head of admissions upon Shapiro's death the following October.
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Pinhas Hirschprung left for Shanghai in the fall of 1941, and from there for North America, finally arriving in Montreal on 23 October 1941.
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Not long after his arrival in Canada, Pinhas Hirschprung accepted the positions of rabbi of the Adath Yeshurun Synagogue on Saint Urbain Street, and of rosh yeshiva at the newly founded Yeshivas Merkaz HaTorah.
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Pinhas Hirschprung became involved in the affairs of the Va'ad ha-Ir of Montreal.
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In 1953, Pinhas Hirschprung re-established Montreal's Bais Yaakov school for girls, which was renamed Bais Yaakov d'Rav Pinhas Hirschprung in his honour after his death.
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Pinhas Hirschprung was named rosh yeshiva of Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch in 1965, and in 1969 succeeded Sheea Herschorn as Chief Rabbi of Montreal.
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