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Chona Menachem Mendel (Mendel) Weinbach (24 September 1933 – 11 December 2012)〔 was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and one of the fathers of the modern-day baal teshuva movement in his capacity as co-founder and dean of Ohr Somayach Institutions, a Jerusalem-based educational network for young, non-Hasidic Jewish men. From the yeshiva's founding in 1970 until his death in 2012, Weinbach taught, mentored and advised generations of students, helping beginners master a high level of textual learning skills and embrace an Orthodox Jewish lifestyle.〔 He was a father figure to thousands, investing much time in guiding his students both during their yeshiva years and after they married, and actively participated in the ''brissim'' and bar mitzvahs of their children.〔 Weinbach was an erudite Torah scholar and an eloquent speaker for both men's and women's groups in Israel and abroad. He wrote and edited over a dozen English-language books, and penned many newspaper, magazine and online articles on Jewish thought and practice.〔〔 ==Early life== Chona Menachem Mendel Weinbach was born in Kantchuga, Galicia, to Yechezkel Shraga and Tshezye Genendel Weinbach.〔Marks, Yehudah. "Harav Mendel Weinbach, ''zt"l'', Rosh Yeshivas Ohr Somayach". ''Hamodia'', 13 December 2012, p. A20.〕 At the age of 4〔 he immigrated with his parents to America and settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he grew up. At age 12 he left home to learn in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas,〔 where he studied under Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and Rabbi Gedalia Schorr and became friends with Rabbi Nosson Scherman and Rabbi Nisson Wolpin, who would go on to make their own impact on Orthodox Jewish education.〔〔 He received rabbinic ordination at Torah Vodaas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Meet the Staff: Rabbi Mendel Weinbach )〕 In 1953 Weinbach was one of 10 Torah Vodaas students recruited by Rabbi Simcha Wasserman to open a beis medrash in Los Angeles as part of a plan to interest parents in Wasserman's proposal to open a mesivta high school in that city.〔Wolpin, Nisson. "Memories from a Boyhood ''Chaburah''". ''Hamodia'' Israel News, January 3, 2013, p. 21.〕 At the end of the summer, he went to study at Beis Medrash Elyon in Monsey, New York.〔〔 In 1960〔〔 he married Sylvie (Sheindel) Lamm (b. 1941), a Belgian war orphan who had come to New York at the age of 5. She and her parents, Abraham Israel and Rachel Lamm, had been interned in the Mechelen transit camp in 1942. She had been liberated on 13 January 1944 and sent to a Jewish orphanage; her parents were deported to Auschwitz two days later. She was raised by her uncle and aunt in New York City.〔Weinbach, Sheindel. "I was Number 43". ''Hamodia'' Features, 8 January 2009, p. C2.〕 In 1962 the couple decided to make aliyah to Israel, becoming one of the first American Orthodox Jewish families to do so.〔 They were one of the first families to settle in the new neighborhood of Kiryat Mattersdorf in northern Jerusalem, where they raised their 12 children.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mendel Weinbach」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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