(Rosh Yeshiva Torah Ohr, Jerusalem and Derech Chaim, Brooklyn, 1910-2012).

(SCHEINBERG, CHAIM PINCHAS).

Tzitzith (Talith Katan) worn by Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg. Accompanied by: Autograph Letter Signed (Lag Ba’Omer, 2014) from Rabbi Scheinberg’s son, R. Simchah Scheinberg, attesting that his father wore these Tzitzith when he was alive.

Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg was a Polish-born, American-raised, Rosh Yeshiva who, from 1965, made his home in the Kiryat Mattersdorf neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. He was regarded as one the Gedolei Hador, a posek (decisor of Jewish law), and one of the last living Torah scholars to have been educated in the Yeshivoth of pre-war Europe. He was often consulted on a wide range of communal and personal issues. He was a prolific author of multi-volumed classical commentaries on the works of R. Aryeh Leib Heller (Ketzoth Hachoshen, Avnei Miluim and Shav Shma’atetha) in addition to his lectures on other topics. Rabbi Scheinberg was celebrated for his unique custom of wearing many layers of Tzitzith at one time. It was estimated that R. Scheinberg wore approximately 150 pairs of Tzitzith (“fifteen to twenty kilos of mitzvos”) making him appear much bulkier than he actually was. The reasoning for Rabbi Scheinberg’s unusual custom was reputedly that he wore them on behalf of those who did not fulfill the mitzvah themselves, although he also often said he wore so many pairs because “each and every one is a mitzvah.”