Pinchas Shapiro of Koretz ( he, פִּנְחָס בֵּן אַבְרָהָם אַבָּא שַׁפִירָא מִקוֹרִיץ; 1726 – 10 September 1791) was a Galician

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and disciple of the

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Biography

He was the son of Rabbi Avraham Abba Shapiro and Sora Rochel Shapiro. Pinchas's father was a descendant of Rabbi

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, the author of '' Megaleh Amukot''. His son Moshe was born in 1759. Born in Shklov, Pinchas was named after his paternal grandfather, described as "the famous and great scholar Rabbi Pinchas from Shklov."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shapiro, Pinchas 1726 births 1791 deaths 18th-century Polish–Lithuanian rabbis Hasidic rebbes Jewish theologians Orthodox rabbis from Galicia (Eastern Europe)