Torah Jewry went into deep mourning last Wednesday, 20
Tammuz, at the passing of HaRav Chaim Shaul Karelitz,
mashgiach of Beis Meir Yeshiva, head of the Shearis
Yisroel kashrus organization, and one of the great
advocates for Sephardi Jewry in Eretz Yisroel. HaRav
Karelitz returned his holy neshomoh to his Maker at
dawn that day. He was in the 89th year of his life.
Tens of thousands of people covering the entire spectrum of
religious Jewry, and led by the gedolim, accompanied
him to his final resting place.
The tragic news spread swiftly through all the religious
areas of the country and by noon many had gathered next to
his home in Kollel Chazon Ish. Many thousands of people
arrived from all over the country in order to share in the
deep pain and sorrow caused by the passing of one of the
gedolei Yisroel, who waged the wars of Hashem
courageously.
The crowded streets surrounding Kollel Chazon Ish became a
mass of black as tens of thousands of avreichim and
bnei Torah from yeshivos all over the country arrived
in a never-ending stream in order to participate in the
levaya. Before the levaya began
Tehillim were recited with HaRav Noach Palei standing
before the oron.
The hespeidim were heard in all the neighboring
streets, thanks to a loudspeaker system installed by Degel
Hatorah.
Hespedim
Rav Michel Yehudah Lefkowitz was the first maspid:
"We have suffered from a series of calamities, today we have
lost a great person from a family of geonim and one
of the talmidim of Rav Boruch Ber zt"l. A man devoted
to Klal Yisroel and the education of its children. A
man who established chadorim and a talmud Torah
in Rosh Ha'ayin, who did not rest and travelled all over
the land in order to save children from the Sephardic
communities. A man who dedicated his life to prevent
calamities befalling Klal Yisroel and never thought
of himself, for his entire life was dedicated for the
klal.
"The Shaarei Teshuvah says that man was created in
order to be a loyal messenger and learned servant of Hashem.
HaRav Chaim Shaul was Hashem's loyal emissary whom He
dispatched to our generation to fulfill such a great
assignment. A man swift at his task and nimble in his
meleches Shomayim, he nullified his personal needs
for the sake of the public and in order to support families
of talmidei chachomim. In this week's parsha
it says: `Pinchos ben Elozor ben Aharon Hacohen has
turned My wrath away from the Bnei Yisroel, in that
he was very jealous for My sake among them, so that I did
not consume the Bnei Yisroel in my jealousy.'
Pinchos's zealousness prevented the destruction of the
Jewish nation.
"Who knows to what extent the departed's zealousness
preserved Klal Yisroel? How much effort he expended
into fulfilling the words of the Shaarei Teshuvoh,
that man's purpose is to seek the good of his nation! How
much good resulted from his efforts, how many great homes he
built, not sparing any effort. We know from the Chovos
Halevovos that the main thing is to bring Jews closer to
Hakodosh Boruch Hu. May it be Hashem's will that we
merit to follow in his footsteps and bring our youth closer
to Torah and thereby merit a speedy redemption."
An emotional HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman said: "Everybody
knows that I am not capable of eulogizing him, he was much
greater than any of us could imagine. `Men of truth have
passed away,' `They have gone to their final resting place,
and have left us to our sorrow.' He was one of a select few,
there are only a few men of truth in each generation. His
whole life was dedicated to the truth. He fought for the
truth. Of him it can be said, `Men of truth have passed
away.' One cannot imagine the mockery and contempt he was
willing to undergo for the Torah and things he was convinced
about: his entire being was dedicated to this. There are
only very few individuals like this in our generation and
therefore this is a very great loss. May Hashem help his
family find salvation and bring salvation and redemption to
the Jewish people speedily."
Then HaRav Boruch Rosenberg spoke: "'Woe to Eretz
Yisroel that it has lost a great man.' Rav Chaim Shaul
zt"l was a great man. He was great in Torah and in
Torah knowledge, his yegias haTorah was great as was
his shimush of talmidei chachomim: he was
meshamesh the Bircas Shmuel. He was great in
anovo, nullifying himself completely for the sake of
Klal Yisroel just in order to do everything for the
sake of kvod Shomayim. He did everything he felt
Hashem required him to do, without being embarrassed of
anything. And after doing what he had to do, he immediately
returned to his learning, immersing himself in it
ceaselessly.
"Chazal say that the death of a talmid chochom is
more severe than the destruction of the Beis
Hamikdosh. Today we have lost a man whose every action
during his life was directed towards giving pleasure to
Hakodosh Boruch Hu. He did not permit his ego to have
a say in his life. Chazal had such a person in mind when
they said, `Happy is he who is great in Torah, who toils in
Torah, and gives pleasure to his Creator.' Such a man was
Rav Chaim Shaul zt"l. He was great in Torah, he
toiled in Torah, and his whole being was dedicated to giving
pleasure to his Creator. Such a person, Chazal say, is a
happy person. A tzaddik has been taken from us, and
we must bolster our Torah learning. May he be a meilitz
yosher for his family and for the whole Jewish
nation."
HaRav Nissim Karelitz commenced his hesped as
follows: "When we want to describe the greatness of
something, whose level we are far removed from, we say that
we perceive a great light emanating from a distant star, but
we cannot explain the light or its greatness. We only
realize that it is a greatness, which we cannot fathom.
"Chazal say, `Someone whose fear of sin precedes his wisdom,
his wisdom will last.' When we see a great man's fear of
sin, we realize how great his Torah is. All his actions were
lesheim Shomayim and without negios. What can
we say? He was a great man, very great. We must reflect on
his ways and learn from them, and that will be a merit for
the distinguished deceased and for us. Let us learn from his
ways and follow his example."
HaRav Avrohom Kopshitz stressed his greatness and joy in
Torah. How he cherished every dvar Torah! All his
actions were accompanied with immense yiras Shomayim.
"The gemora says, `Why was he called Yechezkel ben
Buzi? Because he humiliated himself. How the deceased
humiliated himself! He was not perturbed by anything. I have
not seen a man with such dedication, without any
negios or calculations. His sole concern was that
there should be another shomer Torah, another ben
Torah.
"His house was totally devoted to the klal.
Disregarding all other considerations, he was only concerned
with doing whatever was in his power to save nefoshos
and with the spiritual salvation of Klal Yisroel. Let
the whole nation bemoan this sereifoh which Hashem
has wrought upon us. We have to follow his example, and do
our utmost to save more and more Jewish souls, and to
strengthen ourselves in Torah and yiras Shomayim."
His son, Rav Yehuda Karelitz spoke next: "We have been beset
by a series of calamities -- woe unto us. My father
zt"l said that half the world exists in the merit of
the late Rebbetzin Kopshitz zt"l, but he did not
speak about the other half. I say that half the world
existed in the merit of my father zt"l, whose every
action was not undertaken for himself, but for the sake of
the klal. The Sephardi community has today lost a
father who took care of both their spiritual and physical
needs. Throughout his life he worked to augment the ranks of
students in pure educational systems and he was totally
dedicated to outreach work."
His son, rav Yeshaya Karelitz: "Woe unto us that we have
been struck twofold. Only five months ago our mother
o"h passed away, and now our father zt"l has
departed this world. If I want to describe my father, I
would cite the Mishna in Ovos, `Yehuda ben Teimo
says, "Be strong as a leopard, light as an eagle, fleet as a
hart, and strong as a lion, to do the will of your Father in
Heaven." This is an exact description of my father. He did
the will of his Father in Heaven, and he observed the
commandment not to be fearful of anybody. How many
humiliations he suffered, but none of that mattered to him,
his only concern was to do the will of Hashem and of the
gedolim whose instructions we follow. We all remember
his rischo deOraisa in Beis Meir Yeshiva, and when he
learned with his brother, Rav Shlomo zt"l.
"Who could remain unmoved at the sound of his
tefillos? He would plead like a servant before his
master. He distributed charity to everybody, leaving himself
nothing. I had the merit of learning with him for 22
consecutive years. From the moment he started learning, he
did not divert his attention even for a minute from his
Torah learning. All his actions were undertaken with the
purpose of increasing kvod Shomayim. Everybody knows
how much he achieved acting as the shliach of the
gedolim and of HaRav Shach shlita. We saw the
extent to which he was willing to suffer humiliation for the
sake of the kovod of the gedolim, and we saw
the last letter he wrote. How much effort he invested into
Shearis Yisroel; and his heart's desire was that this
kashrus system would continue to be run along the
lines which he set up during his lifetime."
After having consulted with the gedolim, headed by
HaRav Eliashiv, HaRav Yitzchok Levenstein, a close
talmid of Rav Aharon Leib Shteinman made an
announcement at the end of the hespedim in the name
of the gedolim: "I have been asked by the gedolei
hador to announce that the members of the beis
din of Shearis Yisroel are responsible for the
kashrus system and will continue to lead Shearis
Yisroel in their holy work following the practice of the
Av Beis Din zt"l."
The funeral procession continued on its way through the
streets of Bnei Brak, until it reached the cheder in
the house of the Chazon Ish. The deceased was a member of
its executive committee and part of its spiritual
leadership, having spared no efforts to establish the famous
cheder.
HaRav Boruch Dov Povarsky was maspid the
niftar next to the cheder: "`Men of faith have
been lost to us.' We are standing next to HaRav Chaim Shaul
Karelitz zt"l who, from his youth, was very close to
his uncle, the Chazon Ish zy"o and to the Brisker Rov
zy"o. To be a man of faith, you have to be a brave
man standing in the breach. You need gevurah
intermingled with pure yiras Shomayim. From HaRav
Boruch Ber zt"l he absorbed the fire of Torah and the
fire of yiras Shomayim. Hakodosh Boruch Hu let His
Presence rest upon the Mikdosh, and put shevet
Levi in charge of guarding its kedushoh. The
Mikdosh requires special protection. Today we do not
have a beis Hamikdosh but we do have the four
amos of halocho, which also require special
protection. Hakodosh Boruch Hu has provided us with
watchmen, he appointed a guard for Klal Yisroel, who
invested unlimited efforts in watching over it with all his
might. These are the men of faith who have been lost to
us.
"Here, on this spot, stood his father HaRav Meir zt"l
when he was maspid his brother, the Chazon Ish
zy"o. The Karelitz family is a family imbued with
kedushoh. The Torah is their guide, and all their
actions are lesheim Shomayim, without any ulterior
motives. How dedicated he was to the cause of drawing
children from the Sephardic communities close to Torah. This
was a man of faith, and today we see the fruit of his labor.
Here on this location, a cheder was set up, a fitting
memorial to the Chazon Ish. For more than thirty years he
spared no effort to support the cheder, and guarded
the boys as befits a mashkon. Thus he conducted
himself throughout his life. How grateful we must be to
HaRav Chaim Shaul zt"l and to the administration of
the cheder, all of us, whose sons and grandsons have
learned in this place, which was so carefully guarded by the
niftar. May it be the will of Hashem that just as he
was a watchman in this world, so may he continue in his holy
labor of watching over the mikdeshei me'at here in
this world, until the arrival of the Redeemer, may he come
speedily."
The funeral procession moved on slowly along Rechov Chazon
Ish which was closed to traffic. Tens of thousands of
mourners accompanied the niftar to Beis Meir Yeshiva,
where he served as mashgiach for decades.
The Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Zalman Rotberg, made an emotional
hesped on his brother-in-law: "The walls of this
beis hamedrash can testify to his hasmodoh. I
cannot adequately describe his greatness, his tzidkus
and chassidus. All the students of the yeshiva
remember his prayers, in which he poured out his heart.
Everyone remembers his pesukei dezimrah. This great
man, whose whole life was an embodiment of, `I have set
Hashem always before me,' and of, `There is none else beside
Him.' Only a man who lives every moment of his life with
Hakodosh Boruch Hu is a genuine chossid.
"Rabbeinu Yeruchom explained that the Remo in the first
section of the Shulchan Oruch adds the phrase,
Shivisi Hashem lenegdi tomid, because this is the
foundation of the whole Shulchan Oruch. Anyone
observing the Shulchan Oruch has to live in
accordance with this motto. Only such a person can reach the
stage of `then you will understand yiras Hashem.'
"The Chazon Ish zy"o testified about him that his
greatness, his tzidkus and perishus was not
that of a mortal. It is well-known that when the Chazon Ish
was asked by his wife who would be their heir he replied,
`Rav Chaim Shaul Karelitz is our heir.' How does someone
reach such a level? Only by shivisi Hashem lenegdi
tomid. With every action he deliberated with himself how
Hakodosh Boruch Hu would react to it. He was so
concerned that no Jewish neshomoh should get lost,
and he was especially devoted to looking after the needs of
the Sephardic community and integrating their youngsters
into the yeshivos. We pray that he may be a meilitz
yosher for the holy Yeshiva."
HaRav Zvi Rotberg described his illustrious uncle: "His
whole life was dedicated solely to Hashem, without any other
considerations. For the last sixty years there has not been
any spiritual or holy matter in Klal Yisroel, with
which HaRav Chaim Shaul was not involved. His heart was
involved, his soul was there, and his hand was there.
Everything was there, except for him. Why? Because he did
not exist. Sixty years of bilti Lashem levado. `I am
not there, because if I am, then it is not bilti Lashem
levado.' Only through bilti Lashem levado is it
possible to achieve such anovoh, to attain such
middos and kedushoh.
"Everybody knew him, but his real essence was hidden. Who
knew about his greatness in Torah, who realized that he knew
the whole Torah? Who was aware of his kedushah and
taharoh? No one knew him. Some people with a hidden
greatness live in faraway places, but his greatness
consisted in concealing his greatness despite being famous.
The gemora says that Hashem has a place called
Mistorim ["hiding place"]. When everything collapses,
Hakodosh Boruch Hu is to be found there. The Maharsho
adds, `In that hiding-place is His strength.' Hashem's
hiding place is to be found amongst people with a hidden
greatness, amongst HaRav Chaim Shaul zt"l. How many
prayers and supplications are needed to create even a shadow
of an abode for Hakodosh Boruch Hu! We have to
appreciate that the world needs to be supported by pillars,
and one of these pillars has left us. May he be a meilitz
yosher for his family, for the Yeshiva, for Klal
Yisroel and for the projects he set up in his
lifetime."
At the conclusion of the hespedim, the levaya
left for the beis hachaim Pillars of Ponevezh
Yeshiva, where he was eulogized by his close friend, HaRav
Yehoshua Shklar, who talked about their joint activities to
save the children of the Sephardic communities, and their
joint project for the distribution of prizes to outstanding
students from all the Sephardic yeshivos who had written up
their chiddushim. This wonderful organization was
presided over and directed by the niftar, who took an
active part in all its activities and in the distribution of
prizes. HaRav Shklar also talked about how they had learned
together over many years, which had resulted in the
publication of Yalkutei Peirushim and dozens of
seforim on all the masechtos of
Shas.
"HaRav Chaim Shaul zt"l was a personification of
hineni. He was always ready to run towards any
dovor shebikedusho and to undertake activities for
the sake of the klal. He was renowned for his clear
and undiluted hashkofoh. There are many kanoim
who do their work in private, but not in public. He was a
genuine kanoi, of the type described by the Or
HaChaim, someone who is `very zealous for My sake' in
public and does not fear anyone."
HaRav Chaim Shaul Karelitz was buried in the Pillars of
Ponevezh Yeshiva cemetery towards nightfall.
Biography
HaRav Chaim Shaul Karelitz zt"l, was born on the 8th
of Elul, 5672 (1912). His father, HaRav Meir Karelitz, the
rav of Lachowitz, was one of the great leaders of his
generation, and was highly trusted by the gedolei
hador, HaRav Chaim Ozer and the Chofetz Chaim.
In that home, HaRav Chaim Shaul's special personality as a
man of Torah guided by truth was forged. The traits he
displayed throughout his entire life, that gained him the
respect of all of the gedolei hador, were evident
even when he was young. These included remarkable
hasmodoh, a brilliant mind, refinement, outstanding
middos, respect for one's fellow and kindliness.
Armed with his enormous knowledge of Torah, pure yiras
Shomayim, halochoh and a Torah-true outlook that he
imbibed in his father's home, he devoted his entire life to
Torah study.
As a child, he studied at first in Vilna and then in the
Talmud Torah of Kovslova. In his youth he studied for a
brief period in the Ramailles yeshiva in Vilna under HaRav
Meir Bassin. Afterward, he went to Baranowitz where he
imbibed Torah and yir'oh from HaRav Elchonon
Wassermann, Hy"d and the author of Mikdosh
LeDovid.
When he was eighteen he transferred to the Kaminetz yeshiva,
where he studied under HaRav Boruch Ber Lebowitz for more
then ten years. During that period, he was very attached to
HaRav Boruch Ber. He amassed a vast amount of Torah
knowledge and quite rapidly became the yeshiva's outstanding
student.
Prior to the outbreak of World War II in 5699 (1939), he
moved to Eretz Hakodesh following most of his family
who were already living there. For a brief period he studied
in the Kaminetz yeshiva in Jerusalem. On the advice of the
Chazon Ish, he later transferred to the Lomza yeshiva in
Petach Tikvah.
In Sivan 5702 (1942), he married Leah, o"h, daughter
of HaRav Yehoshua Berger and granddaughter of HaRav Yosef
Chaim Zonnenfeld. Their wedding took place in the home of
the Kehillos Yaakov -- the Steipler Rav -- on Givat Rokach
in Bnei Brak and was attended, of course, by the Chazon
Ish.
After their marriage, the couple resided in Petach Tikvah,
where HaRav Chaim Shaul continued his Torah studies in the
renowned Toras Eretz Yisroel Kollel headed by HaRav Yitzchok
Katz, zt"l. Some of the most outstanding Torah
scholars in the country studied there, and the rischo
deOraisa of its students resounded far and wide, Torah
being their essence and lifeblood.
The Chazon Ish later asked HaRav Chaim Shaul to serve as rav
and moreh tzedek of Petach Tikvah's bnei Torah
community. HaRav Karelitz did not accept the offer, because
he wanted to continue to study Torah undisturbed.
Nonetheless, with clarity and firmness, he answered the
questions of the many people seeking his halachic
guidance.
His modest home, in its simplicity and starkness,
personified the daled amos shel halocho veTorah.
There were times in which there was barely bread in the home
and when his only source of sustenance was his Torah and
yegia. His knowledge of Torah was so vast that the
gedolei hador said that there was no part of Shas
and poskim that he hadn't mastered by heart.
In 5715 upon the petiroh of his father, HaRav Meir
Karelitz, one of the founders of the Chinuch Atzmai and the
Vaad Hayeshivos (along with the Lutzker Rov), as well as the
chairman of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, HaRav Chaim Shaul
moved to Bnei Brak to be near his mother. Nonetheless, he
continued to travel every day to Petach Tikvah to study in
Kollel Toras Eretz Yisroel.
When HaRav Eliyahu Dessler became menahel ruchani in
Ponevezh, HaRav Chaim Shaul became very close with him, and
avidly absorbed all of his teachings. He later knew HaRav
Dessler's writings by heart, and Michtav MeEliahu was
always at his fingertips. When HaRav Dessler was
niftar, HaRav Karelitz became close with the
mashgiach HaRav Yechezkel Levenstein, listening to
his discourses and discussing them with him. He also read
all of HaRav Levenstein's articles.
In 5720, HaRav Karelitz was appointed to the position of
mashgiach and menahel ruchani in the Beis Meir
yeshiva, where he delivered mussar discourses and
spoke in Torah with the yeshiva students. He toiled over his
Torah in the Beis Meir yeshiva for more than forty years,
continuing alongside his other activities, and had a deep
influence on its students.
When the yeshiva ketana affiliated with the Tashbar
Talmud Torah opened in 5728, he served as a maggid
shiur there and also as a member of the executive board
of the Talmud Torah and one of its mainstays. For more than
three decades, he tested the students of that famous
talmud Torah, the nurturing place for tinokos shel
beis rabban who eventually became some of our
generation's finest talmidei chachomim under his
guidance.
Students of the Beis Meir yeshiva longingly recall the years
in which the roshei yeshiva HaRav Reuven Fein, zt"l,
and HaRav Zalman Rotberg, ylct"a delivered
shiurim. HaRav Chaim Shaul Karelitz was present at
these shiurim, and the rischo deOraisa was
famous. It was well known that in that shiur, every
svoro would undergo the scrutiny of HaRav Chaim Shaul
Karelitz, who would examine each svoro with his
clarity and absolute truthfulness to see if it was Torah-
true.
He took a deep interest in the needs and futures of students
of Sephardic backgrounds, making supreme efforts to draw
them closer to the Torah world. He would travel all over the
country -- from Dan to Beersheba -- in order to bring yet
another student into yeshiva. Hundreds of yeshiva students
from Sephardic backgrounds, today genuine bnei Torah,
owe him their spiritual lives.
His focused most of his energies in this area on Rosh
Ha'Ayin, where he went from door to door, gathering Yemenite
children and bringing them to Torah yeshivos.
Along with HaRav Eliyahu Raful and HaRav Yehoshua Shklar, he
was active in integrating these youths in yeshivos. His
activities constituted the foundations for restoring the
Torah crown of Sephardi Jewry and he personally took care of
their needs. He would sit and study with these
bochurim, helping them advance in Torah and yiras
Shomayim.
His primary concern was placing those students in
yeshivos kedoshos. At times, these attempts to
integrate them in yeshivos were unsuccessful, and he
eventually decided to open a yeshiva in which those students
would study with avreichim until they were ready to
join regular frameworks. Some of those students had received
anti-Torah upbringing, and this program helped them become
genuine Torah Jews. During his decades of activity, he
reached out to many rechokim, and was active on
behalf of Torah-true chinuch.
In 5747 (1987), a shmittah year, Maran HaRav Eliezer
Menachem Shach, shlita, asked him to found Shearis
Yisroel and the Vaad Hakashrus Hamehudar of the bnei
Torah community in Eretz Yisroel. He directed every
detail of its vast kashrus system, safeguarding the walls of
kashrus and tohoroh, and supervising its far-reaching
Torah activities, which include a beis horo'oh and a
beis din.
He directed the huge nationwide kashrus network and later a
shechita network abroad for fourteen years. He
personally examined, supervised and followed up every
detail. On his merit, the hechsher hamehudar founded
by Maran HaRav Eliezer Menachem Shach, shlita,
developed in a remarkable manner, to benefit the Torah
world.
HaRav Chaim Shaul Karelitz was a gaon in all aspects
of Torah. Gedolei Yisroel praised his vast Torah
knowledge. He would study with tremendous fervor, deriving
his vigor from Torah study. Even when deeply involved in
efforts on behalf of the klal, he would withdraw when
he sat down to study. His zerizus in mitzvah
observance and meticulousness were exemplary; there are many
accounts of the cherda with which he observed the
mitzvos. But his greatest trait was his unusual humility,
and his self-effacement.
As one who dauntlessly fought Hashem's battles, he was the
loyal trustee of maranan verabonon, the gedolei
hador: those who have gone to the World of Truth and
those still with us today. He fulfilled many missions on
behalf of kodshei Yisroel, with all of the gedolei
Yisroel relying upon him and trusting that all his deeds
were totally for Shomayim's sake.
His uncle the Chazon Ish regarded him as an odom godol
me'od,and once said that he was in the category of
"less dein bar nash." On one particular occasion, the
Chazon Ish asked everyone to leave the room because he
wanted to speak with someone privately. HaRav Chaim Shaul
was also in the room, and the Chazon Ish said that he could
remain inside. He was so immersed in his learning and so
detached from this world that he wouldn't hear what was
being said.
Along with his greatness in Torah, he was also a giant in
middos, and had a good rapport with all types of
people. He greeted everyone warmly. His simplicity, pleasant
manner and goodness had a strong impact on all who
encountered him and were the basis of the great esteem in
which people held him.
HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman related that for a while HaRav
Karelitz studied with the son of a very wealthy person. The
man wanted to pay HaRav Karelitz for his efforts but HaRav
Karelitz said, "If you want to pay me for learning with your
son, I refuse to take the money. But if you want to pay me
because I am poor, I am willing to accept the money." HaRav
Shteinman added: "In general it's the opposite. People are
willing to be paid for teaching, but do not want to undergo
the disgrace of being paid because they are poor."
Two months ago he fell ill and in recent weeks his health
deteriorated. Prayer were recited in yeshivos and
kollelim for his recovery, and all sought to fulfill
the dictum of lekayem bonu chachmei Yisroel.
Nonetheless, early Wednesday morning he returned his soul,
which had been refined by much suffering, to its Maker.
The great gaon, HaRav Chaim Shaul Karelitz left a deep
impression on the generation by means of his enterprises and
personality. They constitute his legacy.
His survived by al his illustrious sons, HaRav Yaakov, HaRav
Yehudah, HaRav Yeshaya and HaRav Meir, as well as by his
daughters, who are married to: HaRav Yosef Korman, HaRav
Yonah Eliyahu Zloshinski and HaRav Yehuda Landi. He is also
survived by grandchildren and great grandchildren, who are
continuing to uphold his spiritual legacy, and by his
sisters, Rebbetzin Alfa and Rebbetzin Rotberg, the wife of
HaRav Zalman Rotberg.
