(VIDEO & PHOTO LINK AT END OF ARTICLE) Thousands of people converged upon the Bais Hakvaros of Bnei Brak from Wednesday night through Erev Shabbos, for the yartzheits of the Chazon Ish and HaRav Shach ZATZAL, whose Kevarim lie no more than 10 metres apart – and whose yartzheits fall out on the 15th and 16th of Cheshvan, respectively.
Here are parts of Rav Shach’s Tzava’ah. In the will, Rav Shach conducts a scathing cheshbon hanefesh: “Since no man knows when his final day on earth will transpire,” the tzava’ah begins, “I have decided to make a cheshbon hanefesh-to review my past, and to scrutinize every detail and every one of my deeds that might be interpreted as mitzvos, but are really aveiros. Woe to us from Yom Hadin. Woe to us from the Day of Rebuke. Who will be considered upright before You in the din?”“I also ask that those students who know that they benefited from me in Torah, yiras Hashem or in middos do a chessed for my neshama and study at least one mishna or one mussar thought a day for my sake. That will be my reward, for I was also moser nefesh for the sake of your success in Torah study. Similarly, if I am able to intercede in Shamayim on your behalf, I will do so, bli neder.”
Rav Shach closes his will, saying, “I pray that I will merit to stand before Hakodosh Boruch Hu after having done teshuva shelaima. I part from you with love.”
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We would like to see pictures of the gedolim.
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A new Minhag! The minhag of visting Gedolim on the day of their Yartzeit was NEVER done by Litvisha people, it was only done by Chassidim to their Rebbes. Why suddenly this NEW minhag?!
to “klal yisroel”:
it may seem to be a new minhag (is it really?) but even if so, so what? there is no harm in it. I only see good coming from making the yurtzeit special, to speak of the gedolim, their lives, mitzvos, etc. and if you can visit the kever, daven, say tehillim, cry….all the better! we need all the zechusim we can get for yes, klal yisroel, and the whole world! good shabbos.
what years did these gedolim live?
The custom of observing a yahrzeit of a talmid chochom is mentioned specifically in Shulchan Aruch and has its source in the Yerushalmi, it is not a chassidishe innovation.