YWN regrets to inform you of the petira of Rav Hirsch Diskind ZT”L, who was Niftar on Wednesday afternoon in Baltimore. Rabbi Diskind was the beloved Dean of Bais Yaakov of Baltimore for 35 years, and had thousands of talmidos many of whom he kept in touch with over the years. He was the son-in-law of HaRav HaGaon Yaakov Kamenetsky ZATZAL. Since 1987, he, and ylc’t, Mrs. Diskind, lived in Har Nof, Jerusalem.
He is survived by his wife Mrs. Rivka Diskind, and children, Mrs. Minna Bodenheimer (Bnei Brak), Mrs. Zipporah Freedman (Baltimore), Mrs. Ettale Stern (Monsey), Rabbi Paysach Diskind, (Baltimore), Mrs. Esther Anemer (Lakewood)
Levaya information:
The levaya will take place today, Thursday, at 12:30 PM at the Bais Yaakov High School on Smith Ave Campus.
Please carpool or take the Shuttle Bus from Shomrei Emunah beginning at 11:30 AM
Kohanim: Please park on the Middle School side of the campus and proceed to the Middle School Multi-Purpose room to listen & watch the Levaya.
To listen by phone: Dial-in information: 712.432.1001 pass code 472317041# or 413210697#
Shiva will be at 4001 Fallstaff Road, Baltimore, Md – 21215 through Wednesday morning. Shacharis at 7:00 Am and Mincha/Maariv 8:00 PM
Boruch Dayan Emmes…
(Source: BJL)
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Baruch Dayan Emes. He was a very special person and Mechanech. Always had a smile and good word for everyone.
A great man, very special, and I’ll miss him. I knew him first in Baltimore and then in Yerushalaim, where he would come to learn with a chavrusa every day in Mea Shearim. He came to be menachem avel when I was sitting shiva for my father and I got him to talk about his Rebbe, Rav Hutner, zatzal. “I didn’t do a THING without consulting my Rebbe,” he said in a tone of innocent awe, as if he were still a young bochur and not someone who had a lifetime of great accomplishments behind him. May his memory be for a blessing.
this holy man was my neighbor in har nof.
his warth, his smile, his kind words made the pooerest of the poor feel like the richest of the rich; he uplifted the downtrodden; always had a kid word for everyone and to everyone, from the satitation worker, to the cashier at the supermarket, to the greatest of the great, because he was the greatest of the great in his humility and appreciation of the tzelem elokim in all human beings no matter the color or background;
an ish emes, an ish shalom at peace with everyone he met, without exception;
the malachai hasharais next to him on the kisay hakavod will marvel at his divrai torah and radiating smile and he will be a maylitz yosher for all klal yisroel he left in this world.