Reuven Feinstein

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| parents = Moshe Feinstein and Shima Kustanovich{{cite web |url=http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/rabbis/feinstein.htm |title=Great Leaders of Our People: Rav Moshe Feinstein (1895–1986) |publisher=ou.org |accessdate=19 December 2010}}

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Sholom Reuven Feinstein ({{langx|he|שלום ראובן פיינשטיין}}; born August 1937) is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva of the Yeshiva of Staten Island, New York.{{cite web |url= http://matzav.com/rav-reuven-feinstein-to-visit-boyszone-today |title=Rav Reuven Feinstein to Visit BoysZone Today |date=6 August 2009 |accessdate=19 December 2010 |publisher=matzav.com}} He is the younger of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein's two sons, the leading posek of post-war America.{{cite book |url= https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&keywords=0933503148 |title= The Greatest Rabbis Hall of Fame: A Who's Who of Distinguished American Rabbis (Jewish Hall of Fame) |last=Goldman |first=Alex J. |date=September 1986 |publisher=S.P.I. Books |isbn= 978-0-933503-14-4 |page=353 |accessdate=19 December 2010}}

Biography

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Reuven Feinstein is the youngest of the four children of Rabbi Moshe and Shima (Sima) Feinstein and the only one to be born in America. His older siblings — Faye Gittel (deceased), Shifra (deceased), and Dovid (deceased) were all born in Lyuban, Russia (now part of Belarus), where Rabbi Moshe was the city's Rav until 1937.

Feinstein joined his father in establishing the Yeshiva of Staten Island in 1966. He has served as Rosh Yeshiva (head of school) of the yeshiva ever since.{{cite book|title=A Century of Grandeur|year=2006|publisher=Mesivthe Tifereth Jerusalem|location=New York, NY|pages=93}} As did his late brother Dovid Feinstein, he upholds their late father's stance against an eruv for Manhattan.{{cite news |newspaper=The Jewish Press

|url=https://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/newcomer-rabbinic-organization-launches-lower-east-side-eruv-against-establishment-view/2016/09/30/

|title=Newcomer Rabbinic Organization Launches Lower East Side Eruv against Establishment View

|date=September 30, 2016}}{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/a-translucent-wire-in-the-sky

|title=A Translucent Wire in the Sky

|date=June 15, 2007}}

Personal life

His wife, Shelia (Chava Sara) died on August 8, 2018, after suffering severe injuries in a motor vehicle accident.{{cite news

|newspaper=Hamodia

|url=https://hamodia.com/2018/08/09/levayah-rebbetzin-sheila-feinstein-ah-staten-island-yeshiva

|title=Rebbetzin Shelia Feinstein, A"H |date=August 9, 2018

|quote=Hundreds gathered Thursday morning to mourn the petirah of Rebbetzin Sheila (Chava Sarah) Feinstein, a”h, the wife of, ybl”c, Harav Reuven}} They both were in the car,{{cite news

|newspaper=The Jewish Press

|url=https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/ny/rabbi-reuven-feinstein-released-from-hospital/2018/07/25/

|title=Rabbi Reuven Feinstein Released from Hospital

|author=David Israel |date=July 25, 2018}} and the incident "from she was originally expected to recover, occurred on July 24." They married "in the early 1960s." She had been a public school teacher, then a public school principal, and later on English principal of a girl's yeshiva.{{cite news

|newspaper=The Jewish Press

|url=https://www.jewishpress.com/news/obituaries/rebbetzin-sheila-feinstein-79/2018/08/15

|title=Rebbetzin Sheila Feinstein, 79

|author=Rivkah Lambert Adler |date=August 15, 2018}} Her survivors included their children, and "grandchildren and great-grandchildren."

Societal Contributions

Aside from the countless visitor and phone hours, Rabbi Feinstein continuously reaches further to teach and help the community at large.

He authored numerous works on various subjects within Torah literature. {{cite web | url=https://www.darcheisholom.com/shop|title=Darchei Sholom}}

They include:

"Nahar Sholom on the Torah" (in English){{cite web | url=https://www.artscroll.com/linker/jms/link/Books/9781422640203.html |title= Nahar Shalom on the Torah Set}}
"פרקי שלום" on Pirkei Avos (in Hebrew){{cite web | url=https://www.darcheisholom.com/product-page/pirkei-sholom-hebrew |title= Pirkei Sholom on Pirkei Avos (Hebrew) }}
"Pirkei Sholom" on Pirkei Avos (in English){{cite web | url=https://www.artscroll.com/linker/jms/link/Books/9781422620793.html |title= Artscroll: Pirkei Sholom on Pirkei Avos}}
"Divrei Sholom" on Emunah (in English){{cite web | url=https://www.darcheisholom.com/product-page/divrei-sholom |title= Divrei Sholom}}
"Reb Reuven Feinstein on the Haggadah" (in English){{cite web | url=https://www.artscroll.com/linker/jms/link/Books/9781422640265.html |title= Artscroll: Reb Reuven Feinstein on the Haggadah}}

He gives shiurim (classes) regularly including a popular weekly Chumash Shiur which gets live streamed via https://www.DarcheiSholom.com.

He founded and spearheads numerous organizations including Yeshiva of Staten Island and Chasdei Lev.

He sits on the boards of many organizations and institutions, including:

Reuven Feinstein

Biography

Personal life

Societal Contributions

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