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NEWS
Remembering a Master Mechanech
by Yated Ne'eman Staff
On the first day of Rosh Chodesh Teves, the first
yahrtzeit of HaRav Zushe Waltner zt'l, many of
his former talmidim will be gathering to bring merit
and honor to his neshomoh. Meetings are to be held in
three different countries.
The central yahrtzeit meeting in Eretz Yisroel will be
held in Bnei Brak, where many talmidim from Morocco
reside. The organizer is Rav Shlomo Farrache, a talmid
and later colleague in the yeshiva in Tangier. A meeting
with a siyum and divrei Torah will be held in
New York in the home of his distinguished talmid Rabbi
Yaakov Gold, attended by talmidim from both Sunderland
yeshiva and elsewhere.
Gatherings will take place in a number of cities in France.
There will be a meeting in Marseilles, organized by Rav Asher
Anijer and one in Strasbourg organized by Rav Shimon Pinto, a
talmid from Tangier. Talmidim will be gathering
in Sarsel, a suburb of Paris and in Aix-les-Bains. Rav Tobol,
a dayan in Lyons, is organizing a meeting there.
The impression of the Torah chinuch that Rav Waltner
provided in Sunderland and Tangier and his talmidim's
awareness of their huge spiritual debt to him, are strong
enough prompting to bring them together, thirty or forty --
and in some cases even fifty -- years after they studied
under him. They will be joined in sentiment by the multitudes
of talmidim who will be marking the yahrtzeit
in other locations across the globe.
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