HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Auerbach ZATZAL was niftar on Shabbos in Yerushalayim. He suffered a cardiac incident on Friday night while at home. EMS responders began CPR and advanced resuscitation.
The rav, who was 87, suffered a heart attack in his home on Friday night at about 10:00PM. He was transported to Shaare Zedek Hospital while resuscitation efforts were continued. Askan Rav Benny Fischer was among those summoned. He eventually suffered a systemic failure of his vital organs.
It is reported that he complained of not feeling well and went to bed on Friday night. The bochur who was with him asked if everything was okay and when he did not respond, an ambulance was summoned.
The niftar was the elder son of the late Gadol Hador HaGaon HaRav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach ZT”L. During the years following the petira of HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv ZT”L, Rav Auerbach became the leader of the so-called Peleg Yerushalmi branch of chareidi litvish tzibur. The rav did not leave behind zera shel kayama.
The levaya will begin from Yeshivas Maalos Hatorah at 11:30 Sunday morning 10 Adar, and from there to Har Menuchos for kvura near his late wife, Rebitzen Rochel A”H
[READ MORE: A Look at the Life of the Late Gadol, HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Auerbach ZATZAL]
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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a great man
he had so much courage
BDH.
צדיק גוזר והקדוש ברוך הוא ,בכבודו ןובעצמו מקיים
ברוך דיין אמת!
A tremendous loss for ALL Klal Yisrael!!
May he be a מליץ יושר for all.
In the pictures, the students did keriah on left side. However in Shulchan Aruch, the left side is only for parents. Please advise.
a freind of mine told me that his freind went to learn by RSA many many years ago. his father asked r yakov kaminetzky zt”l if r shmuel is really so big in torah r yakov said yes he asked r yakov “like his father”? (r shlomo zalmen aurbach) r yakov responded “efsher greser” (maybe greater)
rav leizerson (head of chinuch atzmei) that his uncle who was r shlomo zalman aurbach once told him: “i only know to people in this generation (that was many years ago when many of the greatest gedolim of previous generations were still alive) that know all of bavli and yerushalmi to its depth and until the halachic outcomes of all the sugyos those are my mechutin (rav y s elyashiv) and my son (RSA)
I cannot stop my emotion and tears, his passing hit me so hard, like a rock. No words!
I remember visiting him a few years ago, and HaRav Aurbach received me at his house so special with a radiant smile . The feeling is in unfathomable . It was something I cannot never even forget! Woe to us that we lost a Precious Gadol Hador! How brief we are!
This is the most fitting time for us to wake up and realize the reality of galus, yes galus! How much more Gedalim can we afford to lose! Let’s learn This from MORDECHAI Hayehudi. When Haman plot to annihilate the Jews, Mordechai took action with the gathering of The Yidden of Shushan! Teshuva!!!!!!!! Teshuva !!!! Now too!!!!! Please !!
Interesting that “crazykanoiy” writes the emes, while “emes100” writes like a…crazy kanoiy!
BMG
February 25, 2018 1:20 am at 1:20 am
a freind of mine told me that his freind went to learn by RSA many many years ago. his father asked r yakov kaminetzky zt”l if r shmuel is really so big in torah r yakov said yes he asked r yakov “like his father”? (r shlomo zalmen aurbach) r yakov responded “efsher greser” (maybe greater.
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This story most likely never happened because rsv yaccov would never have answered such a question the way your saying it over.
Stop with the shakranis.