Rav Nachum Rabinovitch zt”l: A Tribute Emor 5780 Rabbi Shaanan Gelman [1] The Torah world lost a giant this past week by the name of Rav Nachum Rabinovich zt”l, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 92. Rav Rabinovich was a renaissance man, a person of surpassing accomplishment in many different areas of Torah and general studies. Born in Montreal in 1928, he was among the first students of the legendary Rav Pinchas Hirschprung, the Chief Rabbi of Montreal, with whom he began studying at the age of 14. He graduated from McGill University and then began studying at the Ner Israel Rabbinical College, where he received his ordination at the age of 20, and earned a Master’s Degree in Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University. He then began an illustrious Rabbinic career, first in Congregation Agudas Achim in Dallas, and then, between 1952-1963, as a Rabbi in Charleston, where he successfully merged two shuls and founded a day school, both still in existence. In 1965, he moved to To...
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