Pinchas Paul Biberfeld
Pinchas Paul Biberfeld (born October 31, 1915 in Berlin ; died January 23, 1999 in London ) was a German rabbi .
origin
Rabbi Pinchas Paul Biberfeld's father, Dr. Chaim Eduard Biberfeld (1864–1939), was a rabbi and doctor, on whose initiative the Israelite hospital was built in Berlin.
Life
Biberfeld completed the rabbinical seminar of Esriel Hildesheimer of the Israelite synagogue community Adass Jisroel in Berlin and received his seminary from Dr. Jechiel Vineyard . After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the family had to leave Germany in 1939, and Biberfeld emigrated to Haifa via Trieste . In the same year his father died after a long illness. In Palestine he continued his studies at the yeshivot Kol Torah and Chewron in Jerusalem before marrying the daughter of the rabbi Zvi Arje Twerski.
In Tel Aviv in the 1950s, Biberfeld founded the Kolel Chortkov, a Talmudic school for gifted married men, of which he was the director for 30 years. He was also the editor of the HaNe'eman magazine, in which respected Talmudic scholars of the time published their responses .
In 1984 Biberfeld was called to Munich to succeed Rabbi Hans Grünewald . In the ten years of his function as Chief Rabbi of the Israelite Religious Community in Munich , he had a lasting impact on Jewish life in Germany.
After his health deteriorated rapidly in 1998, he spent the last few months with his son in London , where he died on January 23, 1999. He found his final resting place in the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem .
Fonts
A small selection of the articles published by Rabbi Biberfeld:
- An arduous path leads to light , Jüdische Zeitung, April 6, 1987
- Old and New Miracles , Jüdische Zeitung, April 1, 1988
- A night that is different , Jüdische Zeitung, April 9, 1990
- The ten plagues , Munich Jewish community newspaper , issue 22, March 29, 1993
reference
- Documentation archive for Jewish culture and history, Chaim Frank, Munich
- Esriel Hildesheimer, Mordechai Eliav: Das Berliner Rabbinerseminar 1873-1938 , Berlin 2008, ISBN 9783938485460 , p. 71
Web links
- Rabbi Biberfeld in an interview with Chaim Frank
- Obituary by Chaim Frank
- Rabbi Biberfeld on the slaughter law
- Midrash at Passover
Individual evidence
- ↑ American Jewish Year Book 1984
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Biberfeld, Pinchas Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Biberfeld, Pinchas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1999 |
| Place of death | London |