Honorific-Prefix: | Rabbi |
Pinchas Shapiro of Koretz | |
Birth Place: | Shklow, Byelorussia, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
Death Place: | Shepetivka, Volhynia, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
Yahrtzeit: | 10 Elul 5551 |
Residence: | Koretz, Volhynia |
Father: | Avraham Abba Shapiro |
Mother: | Sora Rochel Shapiro |
Pinchas Shapiro of Koretz (Hebrew: פִּנְחָס בֵּן אַבְרָהָם אַבָּא שַׁפִירָא מִקוֹרִיץ; 1726 – 10 September 1791) was a Lithuanian Chasidic rabbi and theologian who was a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov.
He was the son of Rabbi Avraham Abba Shapiro and Sora Rochel Shapiro. Pinchas's father was a descendant of Rabbi Nathan Nata Spira, the author of Megaleh Amukot.[1] [2] His son Moshe was born in 1759.[3]
Born in Shklov, Pinchas was named after his paternal grandfather, described as "the famous and great scholar Rabbi Pinchas from Shklov."[3]