Rav Tzodok Shaingarten

Rav Tzodok Shaingarten was Rav of Ohr Torah in Boro Park. Born in Warsaw to staunch Gerrer Chassidim, he learned for two zmanim at Baranovitch before attending Kletzk under Rav Aharon Kotler. Later, he learned at Mir under Rav Yeruchom Levovitz from 1932 to 1938, following which he returned to Warsaw. When the Nazis conquered Poland, he fled to Vilna. He traveled with the Mir Yeshiva to Japan and Shanghai. After the war, he moved to New York and married Rebbetzin Ruth.