He was born on 28
Cheshvan 5673 (November 18, 1912) in the town of
Vishki,
Vitebsk Governorate, at the time in the
Russian Empire, today in
Latvia. His father, Rabbi Shlomo Yehuda Leib Palchinsky, was the
av beis din (head of the rabbinical court) of Vishki. Palchinsky's maternal grandfather was Rabbi
Nosson Tzvi Finkel (the Alter of Slabodka). During his teens, he learned for three years at
Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael in
Slabodka, Lithuania. He
immigrated to
Mandatory Palestine in 1940. In addition to teaching in the yeshiva, Palchinsky delivered
mussar (ethics) talks to students from
Hebron Yeshiva and
Mir Yeshiva. These students included Rabbi
Aviezer Piltz, Rabbi
Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi, He died on October 6, 2007, at the age of 94. He was buried on the
Mount of Olives. ==Works==