Rabbi Pinchos Hirschprung
פנחס ב"ר חיים
Chief Rabbi, Montreal, CanadaDate of Death:
Sun. January 25, 1998 -
Teves 27 5758
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Directions to Kever: Chesed Shel Emes Cemetery just outside of Montreal - 1. Go on Laurentian Autoroute North (Autoroute des Laurentides Nord), 2. Take Exit 39, for Hwy #158 East/Sainte-Sophie, 4. Proceed on Hwy #158 East 11 km, to Ste. Sophie, 5. Turn right on Rue Masson, 6. Turn right on 2e Rue, 7. Go 1 km along 2e Rue, look for sign on left saying “CIMETIERE”, and turn left into the cemetery. Location: Needed
Biographical Notes:
Photo Caption: Rav Pinchos Hirschsprung, Credit: Cabadtalk
Photo Caption: 1. Unkonwn, 2. Unkown, 3. Rav Hirschsprung, 4. Unkown, 5. Unkown, Credit: Needed
Photo Caption: Rav Yehuda Meir Shapiro, Lubliner Rav and Rosh Yeshia, Chachmei Lublin , d. 1933
Photo Caption: Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin as it stood when it first opened in 1930, Credit: Kevarim.com
Photo Caption: Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin as it stands today (Winter, 2011), Credit: Kevarim.com
Bio Information:
Rav Hirschsprung, a student of Rav Meir Shapiro served as the Chief Rabbi of Montreal from 1969 until his passing. The Lubliner once said that already as a youth he knew 2,200 talmudic folios by heart. The Rav also shared a very close relationship with the Lubavitcher Rebbe and served as one of the Rosh Yeshivas at Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim of Montreal.
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As a student in 770 we had his number next to the phone in our dorm. When anyone had a question of where to find a Gemarah (ANY Gemara!) we would call him. WIthout even saying hello or waisting time he took our question answered to the exact line within page/volume etc. and hung up. I personally got Amreh M’komos by the dozen like this! He was from those unique individuals with the books of Torah!
Rav Hirshprung ztzl had a photographic memory but was also a gaon in pilpul. There wasn’t a part of Torah that he didn’t know. He was the founding force in the establishment of a Bais Yakov in Montreal.
There is a famous story about him with Reb Chaim Ozer Grodzensky Ztz”l.
He published a Torah Journal in his youth.
B”h, I was zoiche to see Rav Hirschprung, and hear him speak.
Here is a Google maps link, I am told that it is a hard cemetery to find:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Jewish+Cemetery+of+Sainte-Sophie,+La+Rivière-du-Nord+Regional+County+Municipality,+QC,+Canada
Today is Rav Pinchas Hirschprung ZT”L’s yartzeit.
when asking a talmid of chacmei Lublin if a certain person in chacmei Lublin was a boki so the Talmid answered in yeshiva pinchus dukla was the boki