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style="display:inline" class="deathplace">Brooklyn, New York, United States</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Religion</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Gittel Schepansky, Hany Kaminsky, Goldie Sorotzkin, Asher Berenbaum, Yisroel Berenbaum, Avrohom Berenbaum, Chuny Berenbaum, Meir Shimon Berenbaum ,Chaim Shlomo Berenbaum, Leibel Berenbaum</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Denomination</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism" title="Orthodox Judaism">Orthodox</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Baranovichi" class="mw-redirect" title="Baranovichi">Baranowicze</a> yeshiva, <a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus">Belarus</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Mir_yeshiva_(Belarus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mir yeshiva (Belarus)">Mir yeshiva</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus">Belarus</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ADD8E6; color: #000000;">Jewish leader</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data">Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Avraham_Kalmanowitz" title="Avraham Kalmanowitz">Avraham Kalmanowitz</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data">Rabbi Osher Kalmanowitz<sup id="cite_ref-ap_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ap-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Position</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rosh_yeshiva" title="Rosh yeshiva">Rosh yeshiva</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Yeshiva</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mir_yeshiva_(Brooklyn)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mir yeshiva (Brooklyn)">Mir yeshiva</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Shmuel Berenbaum</b> (March 13, 1920 – January 6, 2008) was an <a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism" title="Orthodox Judaism">Orthodox</a> <a href="/wiki/Rabbi" title="Rabbi">rabbi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rosh_yeshiva" title="Rosh yeshiva">rosh yeshiva</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Mir_yeshiva_(Brooklyn)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mir yeshiva (Brooklyn)">Mir yeshiva</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shmuel_Berenbaum&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was born in <a href="/wiki/Knyszyn" title="Knyszyn">Knyszyn</a>, Poland and studied at <i><a href="/wiki/Ohel_Torah_Yeshiva" class="mw-redirect" title="Ohel Torah Yeshiva">Ohel Torah Yeshiva</a></i> in <a href="/wiki/Baranovichi" class="mw-redirect" title="Baranovichi">Baranowicze</a>, led by Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Elchonon_Wasserman" title="Elchonon Wasserman">Elchonon Wasserman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later studied in the <a href="/wiki/Mir_Yeshiva_(Belarus)" title="Mir Yeshiva (Belarus)">Mir Yeshiva</a> located in the town of <a href="/wiki/Mir,_Belarus" title="Mir, Belarus">Mir</a>, now in Belarus.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the onset of World War II, he traveled with the rest of the Mir Yeshiva to <a href="/wiki/Vilnius" title="Vilnius">Vilna</a>, where they remained for three weeks awaiting visas to travel abroad. After receiving destination visas to <a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Curaçao">Curaçao</a>, a Dutch <a href="/wiki/Protectorate" title="Protectorate">protectorate</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a>, they were given travel visas by the Japanese Consul in <a href="/wiki/Kaunas" title="Kaunas">Kovno</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara" title="Chiune Sugihara">Chiune Sugihara</a>. The yeshiva traveled across the <a href="/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Railway" title="Trans-Siberian Railway">Trans-Siberian Railway</a> to <a href="/wiki/Vladivostok" title="Vladivostok">Vladivostok</a> in a trip that took over two months. From there they traveled to <a href="/wiki/Kobe,_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Kobe, Japan">Kobe, Japan</a>, where they remained for 7 months before being settled by the Japanese Government in <a href="/wiki/Shanghai" title="Shanghai">Shanghai</a>, China. </p><p>Following the war, Berenbaum traveled with the remnants of the Mir Yeshiva to the United States and settled in Brooklyn, New York. He married the eldest daughter of the Mir rosh yeshiva, Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Avraham_Kalmanowitz" title="Avraham Kalmanowitz">Avraham Kalmanowitz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1964, after the passing of his father-in-law, he became the rosh yeshiva of the Mirrer Yeshiva together with his brother-in-law Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Shraga_Moshe_Kalmanowitz" title="Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz">Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His diligence in Torah study was legendary and he was known to spend the entire day in the yeshiva's study hall discussing Torah topics with the students. </p><p>As a policy, he would not attend any functions or weddings until after the afternoon <a href="/wiki/Yeshivah" class="mw-redirect" title="Yeshivah">seder</a> in the yeshiva was over. This caused many weddings to take place late in the evening so as to allow him to officiate. He opposed his yeshiva students going to college, and later banned it outright. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2008)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Some believe that he allowed the students to study for <a href="/wiki/Semikhah" title="Semikhah">rabbinic ordination</a> in order to satisfy their parents, who would otherwise want their children to attend college.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>After Berenbaum's first heart attack, the name Refoel was added to his name.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shmuel_Berenbaum&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rabbi_Shmuel_Berenbaum_grave.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Rabbi_Shmuel_Berenbaum_grave.jpg/100px-Rabbi_Shmuel_Berenbaum_grave.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Rabbi_Shmuel_Berenbaum_grave.jpg/150px-Rabbi_Shmuel_Berenbaum_grave.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Rabbi_Shmuel_Berenbaum_grave.jpg/200px-Rabbi_Shmuel_Berenbaum_grave.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2736" data-file-height="3648" /></a><figcaption>Berenbaum's grave in the <a href="/wiki/Sanhedria_Cemetery" title="Sanhedria Cemetery">Sanhedria Cemetery</a> of Jerusalem</figcaption></figure> <p>Berenbaum died on January 6, 2008 (28 <a href="/wiki/Tevet" title="Tevet">Tevet</a> 5768) at his home in Brooklyn from medical complications due to stomach cancer, aged 87. 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