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Tens of thousands of people gathered for the Levayah of Maran Hagon Rav Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz ZATZAL. Police and security forces worked overtime to coordinate and deal with the attending masses. Hatzalah volunteers were out in full force as well in order to help keep people hydrated and treat the people who got trampled. Egged used local city buses as number 402 shuttles to transport people to the Levayah. Hundreds of Gedolim and Roshei Yeshiva attended the Levayah.

Rav Lefkowitz, who was 97-years-old, collapsed suddenly during Shalosh Seudos, and was rushed to Shaarei Tzedek Hospital, where he was in critical condition until his Petira on Monday evening.

Rav Michel Yehuda ZATZAL, was one of the Gedolei Hador, and was one of the biggest Talmidim of Rav Shlomo Heiman ZATZAL. He also learned under the Chazon Ish after arriving in Eretz Yisroel.

For more than 50 years he served as Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Ponovezh L’Tzeirim, teaching thousands upon thousands of Talmidim

Rav Michel Yehudah was a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Degel Hatorah, and was the person who  released the Chiddushei Rav Shlomo, the Shiurim of Rav Shlomo Heiman.

In his will, read at the hospital on Monday night, the Niftar asked that his two sons be the only ones to eulogize him and that they refrain from praising him too much.

Boruch Dayan Emmes…

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