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This Google Custom Search looks only in this website. HaRav Boruch Mordechai Ezrachi writes to the Rav of Odessa
In a rare and unique letter to the rav of Odessa, HaRav Shlomo Bakst, and in a message of chizuk to all the community rabbonim who are in the midst of exile with their flocks and students, fleeing from the war front, not having yet found a permanent haven — HaRav Boruch Mordechai Ezrachi, Rosh Yeshivas Ateres Yisroel and member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, who is in touch these people also in normal times, sends words of encouragement and direction.
He writes:
"Torah has no designated 'place.' Wherever there are Jews who keep and study it, there can it be found and that is its place.
Dr. Maria Shebyekovsky is familiar to many wives of avreichim in Bnei Brak because of her devoted work as a midwife in Maayanei Hayeshua. She immigrated to Israel from Ukraine with her husband seven years ago and now she tells us:
"In these days, the information about people in Ukraine who require medical help — and I can speak mainly from the viewpoint of my work — comes to Israel via reports and announcements sent through the computerized media, either to me personally or to a group of doctors which has been organized to receive the facts from there.
This hesped was written soon after the passing of HaRav Schwab and we published it at the time. We thought it worthwhile to republish it now.
The King of Israel and a talmid chochom are both drowning. Only one can be saved— whose life takes precedence? The Talmud states that we must save the talmid chochom because "we have no other talmid chochom like this one." Although there are other great talmidei chachomim, each individual talmid chochom is irreplaceable because his particular mesorah, personality and wisdom enable him to express unique aspects of Hashem's Torah (Horayos 13a, Netziv).
One month ago a talmid chochom was taken from our midst. HaRav Shimon Schwab synthesized many diverse strands of Torah. He was educated in the spirit of Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch, a talmid of Mir and Telshe in Europe, rav of K'hal Adas Yeshurun, a noted darshan and a leader of American Orthodoxy. It is not my purpose to explore each of these strands or to write a comprehensive biography, but rather to focus on HaRav Schwab's unique personal greatness. To be "maspid" means to accentuate the loss, the emptiness, "we have no other talmid chochom like this one."
Rain and Kinneret Watch by Dei'ah Vedibur
Staff
Our weekly report of the rain and the level of the Kineret -
Winter, 5782.
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