Some 250,000 people mourned the death of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv at his Jerusalem funeral on Wednesday night, July 18 2012, according to police estimates. Rav Elyashiv, the leading rabbi of the Ashkenazi non-hassidic haredi community, died on Wednesday afternoon, age 102, at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center. The funeral procession set out from the rabbi's residence in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood and made its way to Har Hamenuchot cmetary in Givat Shaul. In accordance with Elyashiv’s wishes, eulogies were not given during the funeral procession and ceremony, but tehillim were recited by the mourners. Click Here For Photos
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
BD"E Rav Elyashiv Zatzal
TheYeshivaWorld - This morning Rav Shalom Yoseph Elyashiv, the Posaik haDor passed away after a weakening of his general health.
Rav Elyashiv was 102 Rav Elyashiv was born according to most records on April 10, 1910, a maternal grandson of Mekubal Rav Shlomo Elyashiv, known as the Leshem. His father was Rav Avraham Elyashiv, chief rabbi of Homel, and his mother was Chaya Musha. The posek hador was an only child, born to his parents after 17 years of marriage.
The scene At Hospital Following Petira.
Interestingly, the shidduch for the rav was arranged by Israel’s first chief rabbi, HaRav Yitzchak HaCohen Kook zt”l, and the rav was married to the daughter of the Tzaddik of Yerushalayim, Sheina Chaya Levine, a daughter of Rav Aryeh Levine zt”l in 1929.
Rav Elyashiv was 102 Rav Elyashiv was born according to most records on April 10, 1910, a maternal grandson of Mekubal Rav Shlomo Elyashiv, known as the Leshem. His father was Rav Avraham Elyashiv, chief rabbi of Homel, and his mother was Chaya Musha. The posek hador was an only child, born to his parents after 17 years of marriage.
The scene At Hospital Following Petira.
Interestingly, the shidduch for the rav was arranged by Israel’s first chief rabbi, HaRav Yitzchak HaCohen Kook zt”l, and the rav was married to the daughter of the Tzaddik of Yerushalayim, Sheina Chaya Levine, a daughter of Rav Aryeh Levine zt”l in 1929.
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