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Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin

by | Nov 13, 2007 | Beth David Cemetery - Long Island, New York, Queens / L.I., NY | 11 comments

Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin

יוסף אליהו ב"ר אליעזר קלונימוס

Executive Director, Ezras Torah, New York City

Date of Death: Sat. August 11, 1973 - Av 13 5733

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Directions to Kever: Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, Long Island maintains computerized records and will provide a detailed location map to Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin kever upon request. Location: Jericho Avenue, between Cleveland and Harrison Avenue about 100 feet behind the Novominsker Ohel.


Biographical Notes:


Henkin Yosef Eliyhau
Photo Caption: Rav Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, Credit: Yankel Pinter

Photo Caption: Rav Henkin speaking at Yeshiva Rabbi Meyer Simche Hacohen, the longtime pulpit of Rabbi JJ Hecht, Credit: Chabad Anshe Sholom of Kew Gardens
Also pictured are: 1. Needed, 2. Needed, 3. Rav Nisson Telushkin, 4. Rabbi JJ Hecht, 5. Rav Henkin, 6. Manestricher Rebbe, 7. Needed
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Photo Caption: Rav Yosef Eliyahu Henkin and Unknown, Credit: Yankel Pinter
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Photo Caption: Rav Moshe Feinstein  and Rav Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, Credit: Needed
Epstein Yechiel Michel 1829 to 1908
Photo Caption: Rav Yechiel Michel Epstein, the Aruch HaShulchan d. 1908

Source: Daily News, New York City, 13 Aug 1973

Bio Information: 
Rav Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, a sixth-generation descendant of Rav Chaim Volozhiner  (d. 1821) was born in 1881 in Klimavichy, Belarus, then in the Russian Empire. He studied at the Slutzker Yeshiva under Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer where he was ordained (semichah). He was also ordained by the Rav Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky, the Ridvaz, Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz, and Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, the Aruch HaShulchan. After serving as a rabbi in a number of Russian towns, he emigrated to America in 1922. In 1925 he became the director of Ezras Torah, which provided assistance to scholars both here and in the land of Israel. He served in that capacity until his passing in 1973.


Credit: Shmuel Amsel, Brooklyn, NY

Credit: Shmuel Amsel, Brooklyn, NY


Credit: Shmuel Amsel, Brooklyn, NY


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11 Comments

  1. Brisker
    Brisker on January 15, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    The Rav was such an amazing person, and he only wanted to be remembered as the executive director of Ezras Torah!!!!!!!!!!! WOW

  2. Yisroel Hirsch
    Yisroel Hirsch on August 26, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    I believe he has a great grandson (with the same name) who is a Rav in EY.

  4. curios
    curios on February 9, 2010 at 2:18 pm

    His grandson’s name is Rav Yehuda Hertzel Henkin.

  6. Ben Bee Zee
    Ben Bee Zee on February 10, 2010 at 2:08 pm

    ר’ יוסף אלי’ הענקין נולד בשנת תרמ”א בעיר קלימאוויטש ברוסיא לאביו ר’ אליעזר בן ר’ אברהם שהי’ ראש ישיבה וממשפחת תלמידי חכמים מפורסמים, בשנת תרס”ג נשא את בת רבו ר’ יהודא לייב קריינדל מקריצאוו, שהיתה ג”כ נכדת ר’ חיים נחום לאקשין מקלימאוויטש משפחה מפורסמת משלשלת רבנים וגאונים גדולים, בשנת תרפ”א נשא בזוו”ש עם בתו של ר’ יעקב יהודא קאזאצקאוו תלמיד חכם מפורסם וממשפחה של ת”ח נכבדים.

    למד בישיבת קלימאוויטש וקריצאוו עצל הר”ר צבי ליפשיץ והר”ר יהודא לייב קריינדל, ומשנת תרנ”ז עד תרס”ג למד בישיבת סלוצק אצל ר’ איסר זלמן מעלצר ועוד, נסמך להוראה ע”י הגאונים הרידב”ז, ר’ יחיאל מיכל עפשטיין, ור’ ברוך בער לייבאוויץ.

    שמש ברבנות בקהלות אוני, קולאש, אחלציק וסמאליין, ומשנות תרס”ה עד תרפ”ג שמש בתור ריש מתיבתא בישיבות סטופצי ושקלאוו, בשנת תרפ”ד הגיע לארה”ב וכהן ברבנות בנוא יארק בבהכ”נ ‘אנשי שצוצין וגראיעווא עד תרפ”ו, מאז עבר להיות מנהל בהמוסד הגדול ‘עזרת תורה’ והרחיב פעולותיו ביתר שאת, בשנת תרפ”ה הו”ל ספרו ‘פירושי איברא’ שו”ת ומאמרים שונים בענינים שעמדו על הפרק.

    היה גאון גדול בתורה ומפורסם היה בצדקתו ובתורתו, והיו פונים אליו מכל קצוי תבל להנות מאור תורתו והוראותיו, מלבד זאת היה גם בקי בשאר מקצועות המדע.

    נפטר י”ג מנ”א תשל”ג

  7. Moshe Escott
    Moshe Escott on May 1, 2015 at 10:17 am

    Here is a nice video of Rav Gettinger zt”l speaking about Rav Henkin zt”l on a visit to the latter’s kever about three years ago:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cExSjiUaKZw

  8. moshe
    moshe on January 3, 2016 at 6:55 pm

    it should say in the title that he was a great posek and talmid chochom

  9. Binyomin
    Binyomin on December 15, 2022 at 6:23 pm

    When he was a Gadol, Rav Henkin was referred to as Rav Yosef Eliyahu.
    Does anyone know how he was known when he was younger?
    I believe that Rav Isser Zalman ZT”L called him Eliyahu, and his Sefer Peirushei Ivra is named for Eliyahu Yosef, rather than Yosef Eliyah.

  10. Isadore
    Isadore on September 4, 2023 at 3:37 am

    Does anyone know where his second rebetzin is buried

  11. Moshe Escott
    Moshe Escott on September 4, 2023 at 11:14 am

    Rebbetzin Chaya Chana Henkin
    https://gravez.me/deceased/506016FA-002F-4F5A-9A59-BAF89A5441C6

    This is in Yerushalayim at the Sanhedria Cemetery near Rechov Shmuel HaNavi.

    For more details, see footnote #55 of R. Eitam Henkin Hy”d’s article on Rav Henkin here: https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46426&st=&pgnum=138

    See HaPardes vol 38 no. 9 p.41 for the full description of the levaya. I couldn’t find it on HebrewBooks but found it on Otzar Hachochma.

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