Tragedy has struck the frum community of N’vei Yaakov, the petira of Rav Yitzchak Haas on Wednesday morning, with the niftar leaving a wife and ten children, the youngest being 4.5. Earlier in the week, the niftar celebrated the bar mitzvah of a son in the Nachlas Shmuel Hall.
The rav did not suffer from any chronic medical condition. He complained of mild chest pain which led to what appears to have been a massive cardiac event. Doctors in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital worked for a number of hours, trying whatever medicine has to offer in an effort to save his life. Eventually, they were not left with any alternative but to pronounce him dead.
Several months ago, the rebbitzin suffered another tragedy in her life. Her brother, the niftar’s brother-in-law, was returning from a chasnah of his own son when he was involved in a fatal car accident. The family has yet to overcome that tragedy and once again, they are faced with this test from HaKadosh Baruch Hu. The rebbitzin has lost a brother and husband in the span of six months.
Rav Haas was a rosh kollel in the Chafetz Chaim shul in N’vei Yaakov and was well respected in the community. He was known for his many acts of chessed, which were only surpassed by his modesty. He merited marrying three of his children, and now the rebbitzin must face the future alone, seeking to marry off the remaining seven.
The levaya took place in Yerushalayim on Wednesday afternoon.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel / YWN-112)
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May HaSh-m give the family increased strength in their emunah to be omayd in this difficult nisayon.
Yehi Zichro Baruch.
Baruch Dayan Haemes. Wasn’t the wifes brother’s car crash also reported on YW?
I knew him well for nearly 30 years, a golden-hearted person, brilliant in Torah and brilliant in midos. Hashem knows what He’s doing.
Is this this the Yitzchok Haas that learned in Ner Yiroel Baltimore?
What a terrible story. It makes us realize that the day-to-day things that bother us are really not so terrible after all. May the family have a nechama.
yrs: yes. He was a “best friend” to me and many others. I remember that as a bochur he lost a brother in an MVA 27 years ago (Kislev 5743) and told me at the time that aveilus is an avoda that we sometimes have to do. May his memory be for a blessing for all those who were privileged to know him.
His late brother, Meir,alav hashalom was my best friend, and when he was niftar, I felt as if a member of my family had been niftar. His father was a well-known chazan in Montreal and beloved by everyone. I remember R’ Yitzchok as a sweet soft soul who had a love for Torah and a good vort for any occasion. May his soul be bound in the bond of eternal life. My condolences to the family.
Mordechai Bulua
Baruch Dayan HaEmes
baruch dayan emmes.
Baruch Dayan HaEmes is this Yitzchok Haas Mechabar of a sefer?
does he father live in Har Nof?
Baruch Dayan Haemet. What a tragedy. A tszdekah fund should be set up right away for the Widow & orphans.
Ezra Hanon