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NEWS
HaRav Meir Bograd zt"l
HaRav Meir Bograd zt"l, one of Jerusalem's leading
rabbonim who served for decades as the rov of beis knesset
Har Tzvi in Kerem Avrohom, passed away at the age of 75.
Gedolei Yisroel, roshei yeshivos, rabbonim and
numerous Jerusalem residents took part in the late-night
levaya last Thursday 3 Kislev.
Yosef Bograd was born in 5692 (1932) in Mishmar HaYarden in
the Upper Galilee to Rav Chaim Aharon, who worked there as a
shochet. At the tender age of nine the talented boy
was sent to Yeshivas Tiferes Yisroel in Haifa, returning home
to visit his parents only twice a year — Pesach and
Succos. While still young he transferred to Yeshivas
Slobodka, where he formed a close bond with HaRav Izak
Scherr. A few years later he transferred to Yeshivas Chevron
in Jerusalem.
He married the daughter of HaRav Yitzchok Eliezer Shub, a
prominent talmid chochom in Jerusalem. Shortly after
the wedding he received semichoh from HaRav Eliyohu
Ram, who said, "R' Yosef knows Yoreh De'ah better than
I do."
A few years later he was named rov of Kerem Avrohom, a
neighborhood full of talmudei chachomim and anshei
maaseh, and was also asked to serve as rov of beis
knesses Har Tzvi, which had just been completed at the
time.
He always received all comers graciously at his home on
Rechov Tzefania. For over four decades he gave a Daf Yomi
shiur attended by avreichim and baalei
batim alike. The shiur continued until he fell ill
two weeks before his petiroh.
HaRav Meir Bograd zt"l is survived by his wife, his
sons, HaRav Ephraim, HaRav Yaakov Zundel, HaRav Yehoshua
Pesach, and HaRav Eliyohu, and his daughters, who are married
to HaRav Avrohom Tzvi Yisroelson and HaRav Ben Tzion
Klein.
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