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Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin (1881–1973) was a prominent Orthodox rabbi in the United States. He was born in 1881 in Klimavichy, Belarus, then in the Russian Empire, and studied at the Slutzker Yeshiva under Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer. He received rabbinical ordination (''semichah'') from Rabbi Meltzer, and he was also ordained by Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky (the Ridvaz), Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz and Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, the Aruch HaShulchan. However, according to the recollections of a student (included in the responsa of Rabbi Henkin's grandson), Rabbi Henkin did not remember receiving ordination from Rabbi Epstein, and for his ordination from Rabbi Wilovsky he was not tested by Wilovsky himself, but by Wilovsky's son-in-law.〔''Benei Banim'' Vol. II, Essay 1, Paragraphs 9 and 12 ( http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=21434&st=&pgnum=210 )〕 After serving as rabbi in a number of Russian towns, he emigrated to America in 1922. In 1925 he became the director of Ezras Torah, which provided assistance to scholars. He served in that capacity until his death. Under his guidance, and following his decisions, Ezras Torah published an annual calendar (luach) listing the synagogue and liturgical customs for each day, specifying the specific practice of that day. Most traditional non-chassidic synagogues in North America followed the decisions of Rabbi Henkin as their baseline. He had two sons: Louis Henkin, legal academician and writer, and Rabbi Hillel Henkin, educator in Connecticut. His grandson is Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin, an Orthodox rabbi in Israel. Many of Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin's opinions are only known through the responsa of his grandson. ==Halachic Positions== Rabbi Henkin considered Reform marriage as a form of common law marriage requiring a Jewish divorce (get). He was opposed to the practice seen in many yeshivas and synagogues of pausing in the middle of the Rosh Hashanah services for kiddush and refreshments before shofar-blowing. (His stance is defended in his grandson's responsa.) If a Jewish storekeeper completed a form to sell his chametz to a non-Jew before Passover, yet he kept his store open, selling chametz on Passover and keeping the profits for himself, Rabbi Henkin felt that this proved the "Chametz sale" to be a fraud and therefore invalid. (Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, on the other hand, believed the sale to still be valid.) Rabbi Henkin felt that in a case where tuna are being caught, it is halachically permissible to check only a few of each batch and not each individual fish; Rabbi Feinstein, on the other hand, felt that each fish needed to be checked for kosher markings that it was in fact, a tuna and not some other fish. This is a particularly interesting ''heiter'' (permission) since Rav Henkin did not allow for the concept of ''Cholov Stam''; i.e., milk which the government supervises as a form of kosher; making canned tuna (which is boiled in milk to give it more weight) using in the same product both the heiter of Cholov Stam and tunafish, which means that neither Rabbi Henkin nor Rabbi Feinstein would eat the product, as made. This is incorrect - Rabbi Henkin did allow Cholov Stam and he wrote an explicit responsum stating just that in his Teshuvot Ibra # 43 - see here: http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?sits=1&req=22080&st=%u05d7%u05dc%u05d1 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yosef Eliyahu Henkin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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