Career
He influenced thousands of students and was a key figure in the Baal Teshuva movement throughout the seventies and eighties. Rabbi Shlomo Freifeld was born in 1925 in East New New York He was a student of Rabbi Isaac Hutner, and eventually served as the principal of the Chaim Berlin High School, which was located in Far Rockaway, New New York
After Chaim Berlin moved to Brooklyn, Rabbi Freifeld chose to remain in Far Rockaway and founded the Sh"or Yoshuv Yeshiva.
The Yeshiva catered to individuals that did not necessarily fit into the parameters and mold of what other Yeshivas expected in their students. Rabbi Freifeld was also a key figure in the establishment of the Peilim movement in Israel.