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Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky (February 28, 1891 – March 10, 1986), was a prominent rosh yeshiva, ''posek'' and Talmudist in the post-World War II American Jewish community. He was born in the hamlet of Kalushkove, Lithuania, in 1891. Shortly afterwards his family moved to the village of Dolhinov where he grew up. He studied in Minsk and then for 21 years in Slabodka yeshiva under Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel. It was there that he met his lifelong friend Rabbi Aharon Kotler, who would go on to found the Lakewood yeshiva. His younger cousin, Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman, also grew up in Dolhinov. Rabbi Kamenetsky was appointed rabbi of Tzitavyan in 1926 and moved to North America in 1937, where he initially took rabbinical positions in Seattle and then Toronto. From 1948 to 1968 he headed Mesivta Torah Vodaath in Brooklyn, New York. Along with Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, he led American Jewry in issues of halachic and spiritual guidance until 1986, when both men died. Rabbi Kamenetsky was renowned as "''Chakima D'Yehudai''", the wise man of the Jews. Aside from his extensive Torah scholarship, he was known for his ever-present warm smile and his expertise in Hebrew grammar. == Family == Rabbi Kamenetsky's first wife was Rebbetzin Ettil Kamenetsky, who died in the early 1950s. In around 1960, Rabbi Kamenetsky married Mrs. Chana Urman of Toronto. The mesader kidushin for Rabbi Kamenetsky's marriage to Rebbetzin Chana Kamenetsky was his close friend and colleague, Rabbi Zelik Epstein. Rebbetzin Chana Kamenetsky died shortly after her husband in 1986. Rabbi Kamenetsky's son, Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky heads the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia, chairs the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah and is considered by many to be the ''Gadol HaDor'' (greatest Rabbi of his generation). His other sons are: Rabbis Binyamin (1923–), founder of the Yeshiva of South Shore in Long Island, NY, Nathan Kamenetsky and the late Avraham(1930–2013). His oldest daughter, Malka (1921–2013), was married to the late Rabbi Yisrael Shurin (d. 2007).〔(Bio of R' Yisroel Shurin ), Reprinted from Ya'ated Neeman, 2007〕 A second daughter, Rivka, was married to the late Rabbi Hirsch Diskind(1922–2013), the long-time Dean of Bais Yaakov of Baltimore.).〔(Rav Hirsch Diskind zt"l, reprinted from Matzav.com ) 〕 Dozens of his descendants serve in key leadership positions across North America in other countries. They include: Rabbis Mordechai Kamenetzky, Dean of the Yeshiva of South Shore, Shalom Kamenetsky, Rosh Yeshivas Philadelphia, Avraham Kamenetsky, R"M in Yeshivas Beis Yisrael in Jerusalem, Yosef Kamenetsky, Rosh Kollel in Moscow, Zvi Kamenetzky, Dean of the Dwek Ohr HaEmet Sephardic Academy of Toronto, and Yitzchak Shurin, Dean of Midreshet Rachel-Shappell's. 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「Yaakov Kamenetsky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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