A gala ceremony at which the Bnei Brak Awards for Torah
literature were distributed was recently held in Bnei Brak.
The ceremony took place in memory of the founder of Bnei
Brak, Rabbi Yitzchok Gerstenkorn, in honor of his 33rd
yahrtzeit.
The awards were given to the authors of seforim
composed during the past the year which had received no other
prizes. Members of the awards committee were: HaRav Boruch
Dov Povarsky, one of the roshei yeshiva of Ponevezh;
HaRav Yeshayahu Goldschmidt, av beis din of Tel Aviv;
HaRav Menachem Mendel Shafran, a dayan in the Gerrer
chassidic community of Bnei Brak and rosh yeshiva of
Noam HaTorah and HaRav Shlomo Ben Shimon, a member of the
Supreme Rabbinical Court.
This year's prizes were awarded to: HaRav Simcha Zissel
Broide, rosh yeshiva of the Chevron Yeshiva and a
member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, for his series on the
Torah and on Ramban, arranged and compiled according to his
shiurim by Rav Yaakov Yehuda Zilberlicht; HaRav
Yitzchok Goldshtof of Jerusalem's Mirrer Kollel for his
Mikdosh Hakodesh on the laws of the vessels of the
mikdosh; HaRav Mordechai Shraga Heisler of the
kollel of HaRav Zolty and HaRav Garbuz, for Darkei
Ora on the order of the avoda; HaRav Arye
Mordechai Wurtzberger, of Bnei Brak's Vishnitz Kollel and a
moreh tzedek, for Refidaso Zohov on the laws of
interest; HaRav Yechiel Avrohom Zilber of the Ponevezh Kollel
and author of the halachos in the Yated luach, for
Beirur Halocho, part five on the four sections of the
Shulchan Oruch; HaRav Pinchas Markson, of the Gerrer
Kollel of Kiryat Herzog for Ben Chayil, containing
chiddushim on Bava Metzia; HaRav Avrohom
Yeshaya Fein, ram in Yeshivas HaRan in Ramot,
Jerusalem, for Eifas Tzedek on interest (This is the
second time he has won this prize.); HaRav Eliezer Roth,
member of the Ponevezh Kollel for Siach Chochmah, Part
One, on Chanukah and Purim, and Part Two, containing various
chiddushim.
Warm words in praise of the entire endeavor and in memory of
the illustrious founder of Bnei Brak were delivered by HaRav
Boruch Dov Povarsky as well as by Rabbi Mordechai Karelitz,
mayor of the city and by Rabbi Avrohom Tannenbaum, Municipal
secretary and spokesman. HaRav Eliezer Roth spoke in the name
of the prize recipients and Rabbi Gerstenkorn's grandson, Rav
Arye Gerstenkorn, rav of Kiryat Malachi, spoke for the
family.
HaRav Yoel Tobias, rav of Bnei Brak's Shikun Vov, Rav Aaron
Chodosh, the menahel ruchani of the Mirrer Yeshiva, and
HaRav Shlomo Steinmentz, rosh kollel of the Vishnitzer
Kollel, participated in the awarding of the prizes.
