On Sunday 26 Shevat, an atzeres is scheduled to mark the end of the shiva of Rabbi Eliezer Shlomo Shick ZT”L, the Tzaddik of Yavniel. The rav was niftar in Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in NYC on erev Shabbos 17 Shevat.
Thousands of chassidim are expected to take part in the event which will also be attended by rabbonim and public officials. The event is scheduled to begin at 16:00 with mincha followed by a number of hespedim. The khal with then visit the kever of the niftar in Yavniel.
It is being reported that a larger kenos will be held to mark the shloshim, which will be attended by the tzaddik’s sons, who are now in New York. The sons arrived in the US on Wednesday night due to the reported decline in the condition of their mother and the break-in in the tzaddik’s Boro Park home. They decided to end the shiva in Yavniel and head to New York.
The tzibur is asked to be mispallel for Yachna Shifra bas Susiya bsoch kol cholei yisrael.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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how YWN can take one side of the argument between Shick’s followers and the other people of Yavniel, I don’t know.
But to the rest of the non Breslov residents of Yavniel, he was not a tzaddik, but a trouble maker who successfully divided an easy going place into a battle ground for his personal goals.
Negative comments are easy to make after someone has passed away and they have no possible way to respond.
#2, It is easy to call some one a tzaddik, but those who live in Yavniel, know what he was really like and what his ‘chassidim’ are really like and you are not really going to like what they are really like.
Look into it and be convinced before you open your mouth!