Pinchas Biberfeld

Pinchas Paul Biberfeld ( born October 31, 1915 in Berlin, † 23 January 1999, London ) was a German rabbi.

Origin

Rabbi Pinchas Paul beaver box father, Dr. Chaim Eduard Biberfeld (1864-1939), was a rabbi and physician, whose initiative the Israelite Nursing home was built in Berlin.

Life

Bibersfeld graduated from the Rabbinical Seminary of Esriel Hildesheimer the Jewish Synagogue Adass Yisroel, Berlin and received his semicha from Dr. Yechiel Weinberg. After the National Socialists took power in 1933, the family had to leave Germany in 1939, and Biberfeld emigrated via Trieste to Haifa. In the same year his father died after a long illness. In Palestine, he continued his studies at the Yeshivas Kol Torah and Chevron in Jerusalem before he married the daughter of Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Twerski.

In Tel Aviv Bibersfeld founded in the 1950s, the Kolel Chortkov, a Talmud high school for gifted married men, whose leader he was for 30 years. In addition, he was editor of the magazine HaNe'eman, in the respected Talmud scholars of the time published their responsa.

In 1984, Biberfeld was appointed as the successor of Rabbi Hans Grünewald to Munich. In the ten years of his function as Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Munich, he had a lasting influence Jewish life in Germany.

After his health deteriorated rapidly in 1998, he spent the last months with his son in London, where he died on 23 January 1999. In the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, he found his final resting place.

Writings

A small selection of published by Rabbi Biberfeld Article:

• It performs a difficult path to light Jewish newspaper, April 6, 1987
• Old and new wonder Jewish newspaper, April 1, 1988
• A night that is different, Jewish Newspapers, April 9, 1990
• The ten plagues, the Munich Jewish community newspaper, Issue 22, 29 March 1993

Reference

• Documentation Archive of Jewish culture and history, Chaim Frank, Munich