The debate on the new draft bill will begin on Tuesday, 9 Adar II 5774 and it will continue on Wednesday, culminating with the Knesset voting to pass the bill into law. It will be a big day for the Yesh Atid party and its leader, Finance Minister Yair Lapid as he has been the impetus of the effort to compel bnei yeshivos to serve in the IDF.
Interestingly, Tuesday is also the yahrzeit of Lapid’s alter zeida, his great grandfather HaGaon HaGadol Rav Shmuel Shmelka Klein ZT”L, Av Beis Din of Chust and Salish and the author of the sefer “Tzror HaChaim”. He was a leading rav in Romania, among the many kedoshim who perished in the Holocaust. He was murdered on 9 Adar II תרל”ה.
Yair Lapid is the son of author Shulamit Lapid, the daughter of journalist and author David Giladi (Klein), the son of Rav Shlomo Zalman Klein, a prominent rav in Transylvania, who was the son of Rav S. Shmelka Klein.
According to the report released by Kav HaSkupim, a group of rabbonim is leaving Eretz Yisrael to be mispallel at the kever of Rav Shmuel Shmelka Klein on the yahrzeit in the hope the zechus of this tzaddik will influence events in Shomayim regarding the draft bill being voted upon in Knesset.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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oy,
he’s probably rolling in his grave now at the actions of his great grandson
what kind of holocaust was in that time also its the first that I heard that he was not nifter naturally if any body knows please post thank you.
As an einikle of R Shmuel Shmelke the “Tzror Hachaim” I must correct your family details- First of all His father was R Moshe Klein -who was the son of R Shlomo Zalman Klein- Secondly of course he was not killed during the Holocaust your Jewish date is many years before that- Even R Shloko Zalman Klein who died in Hungary was not killed by the nazis y”msh He was niftar right before the Nazis entered Budapest
As an einikle of the Tzror Hachayim I must make some corrections on your family details- First of all the father of R Shmuel Shmelke Klein was R Moshe Klein- He was the son of R Shlomo Zalman Klein- Secondly , of course he was not niftar during the Holocaust as you hebrew date indicates- In fact even R Shlomo Zalman Klein was niftar in Budapest right before the Nazis ym”sh entered –
All secular Jews are close cousins of all frum Jews. Zionism and Hilonios were invented, largely out of whole cloth, only a few generations ago. The only people who don’t know about their relatives on the other side of the “fence” are either: 1) recent converts; 2) people disinterested in genealogy.