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His father was a descendant of Rabbi Yom Tov Lipman, Rabbi of Kapolye, who authored many works and whose glosses on the Talmud have been published in the back of the Talmud. In his youth Rabbi Feinstein studied with his father and also in the yeshivas located in Slutsk, Shklov and Amstislav, before being appointed rabbi of Luban where he served for sixteen years.

Under increasing pressure from the Soviet regime, he moved with his family to New York City in where he lived for the rest of his life. He later established a branch of the yeshiva in Staten Island, New York. Rabbi Feinstein also took an active leadership role in Israel's Chinuch Atzmai.

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Rabbi Moshe Feinstein's greatest renown stemmed from a lifetime of responding to halachic queries posed by Jews in America and worldwide. He wrote about two thousand responsa on a huge range of issues that affect Jewish religious life and practice. The bulk of these were published in his classical "Igros Moshe". Rabbi Feinstein was universally recognized as the preeminent Torah sage and Posek of his generation, and people from around the world called upon him to answer their most complicated Halachic questions.

At the time he was regarded as Orthodoxy's foremost rabbinic scholar and Posek. His funeral in Israel was said to be the largest among Jews in millennium, with an estimated attendance of , people. He was eulogized both in Israel and America by the foremost Rabbis. All of them tearfully expressed grief over what they termed a massive loss to the generation.

May their memory be a blessing to all.