Lipa Goldman

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Rabbi Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Goldman (1905 - 1982) was a renowned Orthodox Jewish Rabbi, dayan, and publisher in Hungary and the United States.

Goldman was born in Neupest, Budapest, Hungary to his father Rabbi Yosef Goldman who was the chief rabbi and Av Beit Din of the Orthodox Jewish community. In 1926, at the age of 21, Goldman became a rabbi in Romania, and in 1934 in Bessarabia (then part of Romania). In 1938, after his father passed away, he took over his father's position as Chief Rabbi and Av Beis Din of the Orthodox Jewish commununity in Neipast.

To save his family from the 1943 Nazi invasion of Hungary, Goldman obtained false papers that certified that they were Aryans. After the war, Goldman's family lived in Hamburg, Germany. The Joint Distribution Committee arranged for their emigration to the United States, and in April of 1949, Goldman was able to reach America's shore aboard the Marine Shark.

In the United States, Goldman made a living as a dayan and publisher of seforim. He published a Shas as well as other individual seforim. His Shas was widly accepted, and was one of the most popular Shas's at that time. At first, Goldman lived on the Lower East Side, Manhattan, then in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and finally in Boro Park, Brooklyn. In Boro Park, he became the rabbi of a synagogue that was named after Neipest, his previous rabbinitte. He died in Boro Park in 1982.

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Goldman had nine children. His oldest, Nathan, was killed by the Nazis. His second, Rivka, married Abraham Klien. His third, Suri, married the late Yosel Greenbaum. His fourth is Itzu. His fifth is Shneur. His sixth, Chaya, married Meir Lichtman. His seventh, Yosef, is the renown scholar of American Jewish History. His eighth, Esti, married the late Dr. Yaacov Burton, a noted physicist. His ninth, Rabbi Ben-Zion Goldman, is the rabbi of the Neipest synagogue in Brooklyn, New York.