ציון רבי פנחס מקאריץ

Shepetivka — Kever of Rabbi Pinchas of Koretz

Shepetivka · שעפעטיווקא

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Jewish cemetery, Shevchenko street 44, Shepetivka, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine

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1.Rabbi Pinchas Shapiro of Koretz, a close disciple of the Baal Shem Tov, passed away in Shepetivka on his way to Eretz Yisrael and is buried there.
2.THERE ARE THREE JEWISH CEMETERIES IN SHEPETIVKA AND YOU WANT THE ONE ON SHEVCHENKO. The ohel of Reb Pinchas is in the ground at Shevchenko street 44 — the one opened in 1900. It is fenced, the gate locks, and entry is by permission; the caretaker is recorded as Lidiya Stanislavovna Diduk.
3.HE DIED IN 1790 AND THAT GROUND OPENED IN 1900, which is not a contradiction but is worth understanding before you go. The old cemetery, on Kotika street 9, goes back to the seventeenth century and took its last burial in 1910 — and its stones were taken away to another place. The ohel stands in the newer ground.
4.DO NOT GO TO KOTIKA STREET EXPECTING A CEMETERY. Nothing is visible there. It is a hillside with no wall, no fence and no gate, used as open recreational ground, and under threat from building.
5.The third cemetery, on Pyasotskoho street, was opened in 1945 and is the municipal one — thousands of stones, a caretaker paid by the town, a gate that does not lock. It is not the one you have come for.
6.Vegetation is a constant problem in the Shevchenko ground. Three kilometres north-west of the town is the mass grave of Shepetivka's Jews, dug in 1941, walled and marked.

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רבי פנחס שפירא מקאריץ

Rabbi Pinchas Shapiro of Koretz

Reb Pinchas Koritzer

מדרש פנחס · אמרי פנחס

Yahrzeit: י׳ אלול · 5550 / 1790

A foremost disciple of the Baal Shem Tov, celebrated for his teachings on truth and humility.

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