Yitshak Ehrenberg

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Chaim Yitshak Ehrenberg (born February 10, 1950 in Jerusalem , Israel ) is an Orthodox rabbi in Berlin .

Life

Ehrenberg is the son of a Hasidic family in the 7th generation in Israel. At the age of five, he and his family moved from Jaffa to Bne'i Braq . After his bar mitzvah , he studied at the Yeshiva Hasharon in order to attend the Yeshiva Harey Yehuda at the moshav Bet Meir at the age of 16 . In 1975, after five years of study and teaching at a Talmudic institution in Ashkelon , Ehrenberg was ordained as rabbi by the local chief rabbi, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Blau. He then returned to the Harey Yehuda in Beit Meir in 1975 to become a teacher. During this time he also took an active role in the administration of the yeshiva together with Rabbi Zvi Kahana.

In 1983 Rabbi Ehrenberg moved to Vienna , Austria , where he worked as a rabbi in a Misrachi congregation. In 1989 the family went to Germany, Ehrenberg was rabbi of the cultural community in Munich , from 1997 to 2016 Ehrenberg was the community rabbi of the unified community in Berlin and was responsible for the Ashkenazi-Orthodox synagogue on Joachimsthaler Strasse. In this function, he also looked after the mikveh , prayers, Shabbatot, etc. As of March 2017, he is still doing voluntary work there.

Ehrenberg is a member of the standing committee of the Orthodox European Rabbinical Conference . In 2003, Ehrenberg co-founded the ORD (Orthodox Rabbinical Conference Germany), from its founding until 2010 also its chairman.

His wife Nechama Ehrenberg, with whom he has been married since 1970, is the daughter of his mentor Rabbi Zwi Kahana (1922–1996).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.misrachi.at
  2. ↑ Rabbi of the Jewish Community in Berlin. Jewish Community of Berlin, archived from the original on January 12, 2017 ; accessed on March 29, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Ehrenberg, Yitshak
BRIEF DESCRIPTION orthodox rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem , Israel