Sunday, September 26, 2010

Footage: Hakafos of Av Beis Din Edah Hachareidis

Video of the Simchas Torah Hakafos of Rav Moshe Aryeh Freund the head of the Edah Hachareidis Beis Din in Yerushalim and Mechaber of the Sefer "Ateres Yehoshua." He was born in 1904 in the Hungarian town of Honiad, where his father, Rabbi Yisroel Freund, served as av beis din.

Before the Second World War broke out, he served as rosh yeshiva in Hungarian town of Satmar (now Satu Mare, Romania). The Nazis arrested him and his entire family in 1944. The family was deported to Auschwitz, where only Reb Moshe Aryeh survived; his wife and all of his nine children died there at the hands of the Nazis.

In 1951 he moved to Jerusalem, where he became the Rov of the Satmar community there. In 1979, he was elected av beis din of the Edah HaChareidis, a position which he fulfilled until his death on the 20th of Elul 5756.

This is Part 2. Click below for part 1.




Part 1

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