Yeshivaworld regrets to inform you of the Petirah of Rebbitzen Wachtfogel at the age of 91. She was the wife of the late Lakewood Mashgiach, Hagoen R’ Nosson Wachtfogel ZATZAL & the mother of Hagoen R’ Elya Ber Wachtfogel Shlita, Rosh Yeshivas South Fallsburg. The Levaya details will be 2:00PM at BMG and LEAVING at 2:30 to go to Eretz Yisroel.
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What airport, what airline…?!
Baruch Dayan Haemes!! We should only share Simchas in the future on this blog!!
who was she the daughter of?
what was her first name? Where did she come from? any info about her life?
She was a slamowits from lita.
SHe was an accomplished mechaneches in her own right, who taught at the Williamsburg BAis Yaakov for decades. Because of his concern for her career, her husband zatzal commuted for over 30 years from Lakewood to Brooklyn, spending the whole week alone in the yeshiva dorm. Her dedication to special needs of family members was also outstanding. She was truly a tsadekkes!
LEVAYA IN BOROPARK BAIS YAAKOV HIGH SCHOOL COR 15 AVE 47 ST
AT 645PM
FROM THERE TO JFK CARGO AREA B BUILDING 23 (ALLIANCE CARGO)
AND WAS PASKENED TO FLY EL-AL AS COHANIM ON THE CONTINENTAL FLIGHT BUT NO AVEYLIM FLEW ALONG WITH ARON DUE TO THE FACT THAT ITS GOING EL-AL
THIS IS THE HUSBAND OF HARAV HATZADIK MARAN MASHGIACH ZTZAL RAV NOSSON WACHTFOGEL OF LAKEWOOD AND FATHER TO HARAV HAGOAN REB ELI BER WACHTFOGEL SHLITA
SHIVA IN LAKEWOOD 415 6TH STREET BET MADISON AND FOREST AVE
maitiv is incorrect.
It wasn’t her husband who commutes, but she herself who commutd from Lakewood to Bais Yaakov to teach. Rav Nosson remained in Lakewood.
Her father, Rav Slomowitz, wrote a sefer Bais Yisroel.
DWKL1 Didnt follow the explanation about kohanim on Continental, can a mais be sent on Continental, will they let the kohanim know in advance, or is it only ELAL Newark that is safe for kohanim…… (as a family of many kohanim would like additional info.)
BDE. Another link to the greatness that was pre-war Europe has left us.
Levaya in israel from shamgar at 18:30.
“Another link to the greatness that was pre-war Europe has left us.”
I wonder, did you ever have any shaychus to this woman while she was alive? I’ll bet you never exchanged two words with her, and probably never even knew she existed. Yet, no sooner is she nifteres than you are wailing about another lost link. Give me a break.
TO BKLYNMOM
continental is not the preferred airline to send niftorim for a few reasons (which i wont go into here)
hence kohanim feel safe to fly with them but this isnt a blanket heter
as in extreme situations continental is used
as far as continetal advising the kohanim regarding if or not they take niftorim only way to validate that info would be to contac the people who arrange the shipping of aronos and asking them if they are sending anyone on that day and that particular flight but it wont really help you as at that point its too late and youll definatly pay the penalty to change your tickets
kishke – Why are you so cynical?
Each person who leaves this world, leaves us with a void. It doesn’t matter whether we knew them personally or not.
I never exchanged words with R’ Shach, ztz”l, either, or R’ Pam, nor many other people, great and simple, who have left this world. Yet their passing took something from us.
Read the first Passuk of Vayetzeh – see what the meforshim have to say. And that’s just talking of LEAVING a certain place. When someone dies, it’s permanent.
Just because you don’t feel it, or even care to even try, it doesn’t mean others can’t.
May we hear of Besuros Tovos from gantz Klal Yisroel.
vesh:
maitiv is correct, but perhaps you are too. In the early days, Rav Nosson zt”l did stay in the dorm and commuted to Williamsburg for Shabbos. Perhaps later on, (although I don’t know this to be true,) when they moved to Lakewood his wife may have then done the commuting.
A family member once flew continental. At the last minute we though to call (Mortuary desk: 800-253-3131) and it turned out there was a mais coming from somewhere out West. (Pinchas Mandel did not know about it). However, I think we convinced them to rebook us for the next day without charge for religious reasons, as far as I can recall.
What more can you tell us about the problem with Continental?
“kishke – Why are you so cynical?”
I’m not cynical; just not a fan of knee-jerk, cliched, insincere emotion.
This might mean for kohanim ELAL Newark is the only answer, or just dont fly but rather go via the sea…..
Kishke
If you sawa fellow jew dying in the street you would not go out to help him? You never spoke two words to him! A jew is a jew and we feel bad and get emotional when someone dies- especially someone like rebetzin wachtfogel. the mark that her husband made to america ia unfathomable. she obviously stood by his side throughout all his years as mashgiach and helped him spread mussar and hashkafa in lakewood and all over america. so we all have a part in her petira even if we never said two words to her.
kishke you should retract your earlier comments
A main reason for Rebbetzen Wachtfogel’s stay in Brooklyn in the early years was for the chinuch of the children. Lakewood today is not the Lakewood of 50 – 60 years ago, when the only school available was the Day School
Kishke, do you ever have anything nice to say???? She was a great woman and anyone who wants can mourn the fact that another special person has left this world!!!!!!!
No, I did not have the zechus to meet Rebbetzin Wachtfogel. I do, however, know a bit about her life and mesirus nefesh. But I did have the zechus to meet others of her generation and background, and I know what a loss Klal Yisroel is suffering now that time has deprived us of their living example. As much as we try, we, who grew up in the free and materialistic atmosphere of the US or even EY cannot duplicate these living examples in our generations.
I came of age and in fact became frum at about the time that our last generation of gedoilim seemed to leave us one after the other, and I remember the great loss as if it were just yesterday. Typing this, I am transported back in time to what was perhaps my third real Purim, when the joy was pierced by news of Rav Moshe ZTL ZYA’s passing.
Soon, Moshiach will be here and we will be reunited with these heiliger neshomos. When that happens, the cynics can apologize not to me, but to those whose memory they disrespect by posting nasty comments on a boruch dayan emes thread.
Relax, all you guys; I have nothing against Rebbetzin Wachtfogel. And Itzik, if your comment was indeed sincerely and deeply felt, I retract my comments. What I dislike is the show of emotion and the cliched, shallow response absent any deep feeling.
And to the guy who compared this to helping a Jew on the street, I don’t see the comparison. Sure I’d help a person I don’t know; that’s my intellect operating and it tells me that I’m obligated to help. But I would rarely cry at hearing about the death of someone I didn’t know, b/c the emotions just aren’t there.
Boruch Dayan Emes.
I would like to ask anyone who knows about Rebetzin Wachtfogels ancestry to contact me. She was a second cousin to my father in law and we are looking for family information to help us fill in some blanks in our family tree.
By the way her father was R’ Yisroel Shmuelevitz. Her mother (who we are related to) was a Rapoport from Brisk. There is a tradition in our family that her mothers family descends from the Vilna Gaon.
Shmarya Richler
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Attention “yiddishefroi”, my father attended the Lakewood Day School and was in the same class as reb meyer kotler ztl”, it was a torah enviornment with rebbeim of renown middos and hashkofa.