Mourning spread through the Torah community on motzei Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Kislev upon hearing of the petira of HaGaon HaRav Yitzchok Bernstein ZT”L, Rosh Yeshivas Knesses Chizkiyahu in Kfar Chasidim and a well-known marbitz Torah for some 50 years. The niftar was 79.
The levaya began on Sunday morning at 11:00am at the yeshiva.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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this is horrific & tragic. our Gedolim are leaving us on a weekly basis & its just getting worse R”L. do you remember just a few years ago-before this mageifa of Gedolim started-when we only heard once or twice a year c”v that a tzaddik was niftar? 28 Gedolei Hador have passed away already this year R”L
just to mention the ones niftar THIS PAST MONTH
1)Rav Shalom Weinberger zt”l-Tchaba Rov,-in Yerushalyim-October 29 2014-74
2)Rabbi Shlomo Shalush ZT”L-Chief Sephardi Rabbi of Haifa-November 4 2012-74
3)HaRav Yaakov Dovid HaKohen Katz ZT”L, Rosh Yeshiva of the main Chabad Yeshiva in Kfar Chabad-November 16 2014-83
4)Rav Moshe Twersky ZT”L- rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva Toras Moshe in Sanhedriah Murchevet in Yerushalayim
November 17 2014-59
is it even POSSIBLE for someone to say this is coincidence?
will WE EVER start doing teshuva?
I’m sorry to be the one to say this & it brings tears to my eyes, but righteous tzaddikim don’t belong staying in a world of people who won’t do teshuva, they belong with Hashem & his shechina in olam Haba.
If we want Hashem to give us these Tzaddikim to guide us through the generation then we need to listen to them %100 & we need to do teshuva to be deserving of their guidance & Torah.
May we all start doing Teshuva ASAP before any other Tzaddikim are niftar C”V
May his neshama have an aliya
Thank you Sam Klien the signs can not get any clearer.
We also have to comprehend what a Blessed Nation we are, that there are in the 1st place, so many Gedolim in our midst, despite the sad reality that this leads to more Petiros of Gedolim.