Biography of moishe felman

Australian rabbi

Rabbi Pinchus FeldmanOAM (born 1944) is the first Chabadshaliach ("emissary") of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement in New South Wales, Australia.

Biography of moishe felman

Biography

Feldman is the son of Rabbi and Rebbetzin Menachem Mendel Feldman, the longtime rabbi of Congregation Shearis Yisroel, Baltimore, Maryland. In 1964, he was sent as a shliach by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson to New South Wales, Australia,^[1] where he married Pnina Gutnick, the daughter of Rabbi Chaim Gutnick.

He is the brother-in-law of commodities magnate Joseph Gutnick and rabbis Mordechai and Moshe Gutnick.^{[citation needed]}

In 1968, Rabbi Schneerson encouraged him to accept the leadership of Yeshiva Centre.^{[citation needed]} The Lubavicher Rebbe sent a letter to the congregation saying, "you are fortunate to have chosen Rabbi Pinchus to serve as the rav and rosh yeshiva of your community, for he is from among the finest students of Tomchei Te