Rebbetzin Leah Kolodetsky, the daughter of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, z’tl, moved the relatives of hostages to tears who visited her at her home in Bnei Brak on Sunday evening.
The hostages’ relatives were in Bnei Brak as a part of a Sukkos tour. The Rebbetzin told them that for months after October 7, her husband, HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Kolodetsky, 70, slept on the floor in solidarity with the suffering of the hostages.
However, at the end of the winter, her husband caught a cold from sleeping on the floor so he placed a thin piece of plywood on a bed and slept on that.
Chareidi journalist Yisrael Cohen, who accompanied the families, said: “We arrived at the home of Rebbetzin Kolodetsky to get a bracha. She told us in a ‘by the way’ manner that her husband hasn’t slept on a bed since October 7.”
“The son-in-law of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, z’tl, a Talmid Chacham and Rav in Yisrael, over the age of 70, decided to sleep on a board he placed on a bed. For a year already. Every night.”
He added: “The Rebbetzin said – ‘You can go in the room and see. How can we sleep comfortably when we have no idea how and where the hostages are sleeping?”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Only moving ????
I have not listened to music in more than one year,
because of the suffering of our brothers and sisters in our land:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/bli-neder-no-music-until-all-hostages-are-free
Rabbi koledetsky is an amazing tzaddik
He was in town since oct 7 and I wonder if he did that at the place he was staying
This is astonishing !!!
The big part of this is that he never thought this will get public. We are lucky that we still have these kind of tzadikim in these days.
while you’re at it, he fasts every day, except for days that you’re not allowed to ex: rosh chodesh, Chanukah, purim, shabbos and yomtov. he doesn’t eat or drink until after maariv.
he’s a holy yid.
I heard in Israel that rav Chaim used to call him “החפץ חיים של הדור״
“The Chofetz Chaim of our generation”