YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Rabbi Eli Munk Z”L, from Camp Munk. The Levaya will be tomorrow, Sunday, at 1:00PM at Shomrei Hadaas, 38th Street and 14th Avenue.
Rabbi Eli Munk was 77 yrs old, born in Germany, and has been running Camp Munk for 4 decades. He was sick the last few years, and passed away in Lakewood on Shabbos.
Boruch Dayan Emmes…
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This kind and loving man will be missed by all of those who knew him. He was more than a typical camp director knowing every detail about every boy in the camp making sure that each camper and staf member made the most of the camp experience both in Ruchniyos & Gashmiyos.
Lech B’sholom
A former camper & staff member.
Bd’e
I know many friends whose children went to the camp and recall what a wonderful influence it had on their yiddeshkeit.
Boruch Dayan Emmes
Rabbi Eli Monk was a kind and caring man. I remember meeting Eli when I was just 6. He really took an interest in me, like a father figure. I am blessed and fortunate to have known him and his family and spent time at his wonderful camp. I had the best ten summers of my life in Camp Munk. It was not a camp in was a home a family.
He will be greatly missed.
Please send my condolences to his family and especially his son Ezzy.
Nachum Schwartz
Baruch Dayan Haemess! May his neshama be a meilitz yashar for his family and klall Yisrael.
We lost a lot of REAL Gedolim this year! It is hard to let Eli go. Nechama to the Rebetzin and Mishpocha. Eli gave me my first break by letting me come to the camp. Reb Dovid pleaded my case and Eli went for it. No place was sweeter for me then “Eli’s Minyan”, my tefilos were focused. We are all at a tremendous loss.His passing rocks my world.
Update on Yerusholayim Levaya of Rabbi Eliyahu Munk ZTZ”L. Aron arriving on ELAL 008 on Wednesday. Levaya at Shamgar scheduled Wed 7PM. Kevuroh on Har HaZaisim. Yehudah Munk and Chana Mandelbaum sitting Shiva Wednesday evening until 11PM at 126/2 Sanhedria Murchevet. Shacharis Thursday 6:00 AM at 126/2 Sanhedria Murchevet.
Chana (Munk) Mandelbaum
Baruch Dayan Emess
was he a relation of the Rav Elie Munk who started the Munk’s Shul in London. That Rav Munk was the father of Lady Jacobowitz a”h of London.
His father Rabbi Michael Munk founded the camp and his father’s brother was Rabbi Eli Munk of London. His father’s cousin was Rabbi Elie Munk of Paris, the father-in-law of Chief Rabbi Jacobowitz. Reb Eli’s grandfather was Rabbi Ezra Munk, rabbi of Adass Yisroel in Berlin, a son of Rav Eli Munk dayan in Altona
Still can’t grasp his passing. So many memories….
Without a doubt old time Munkies know that R’ “Josh” Silvermitz is standing in Shomiyim singing “I can see R’ Eli, with a big smile on his face”.
Some of my greatest life experiences and warm memories are of my time in Camp Munk.
As said by the levaya in E’Y- we lost a Gadol in Avodah. One who shaped thousands of families, and taught us what a real Tisha B’av was supposed to mean.