The following update was received from Rabbi Shlomo Kook on Sunday, 27 Shevat 5772 regarding the condition of Maran Posek HaDor HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv Shlita. The update comes from Rav Kook, the official spokesman for the home of the posek hador amid much disinformation being reported in the media, including the chareidi media.

Rav Kook explains that on Sunday, there was a “substantial improvement relatively speaking, with an emphasis on the word relative” and the rav is responding to external stimulus now that he has been brought out of the medically induced coma.

Rabbi Kook adds the tzibur is urged to continue being mispallel for the rav, Yosef Sholom ben Chaya Musha b’soch kol cholei am yisrael. He explained the gadol hador is much in need of Am Yisrael’s tefilos.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)