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Rabbi Moshe Rockove at Tablet Magazine: On Reb Aharon Kotler Zt"l all credit goes to both of them

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                                                                            Rabbi Aaron Kotler and students in the 1930s. Beth Medrash Govoha Rabbi Aaron Kotler, date unknown. (Wikimedia) Reb Ahron with his lifelong friend Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky Photo Credit: https://www.shemayisrael.com Photo Caption: Along with Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky at a wedding, Credit: Needed Last Friday marked the 54th yahrzeit of Rabbi Aaron Kotler, a leading Rosh Yeshiva in pre-WWII Europe who formed Lakewood’s Beth Medrash Govoha in 1943. At his passing in 1962, he was the recognized leading authority in the Yeshiva world, with his influence impacting the Jewish scene both in the United States and in Israel. He was a visionary, one of the key figures who led the renaissance of Torah Jewry during the post-War era. A prodigious ...
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Rav Chanoch Aryeh Friedman zt”l

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  Rav Michoel Sorotzkin April 15, 2026 By Rav Michoel Sorotzkin There are lives that impress, lives that inspire, and lives that quietly but indelibly redefine what a ben Torah can be. And then there are the rare lives that seem to belong less to the ordinary rhythms of this world than to a higher orbit altogether, lives of such constancy in Torah, such refinement in middos , such fidelity to truth, that when they are taken from us, we feel not merely the absence of a man, but the sudden dimming of a luminous world. With the petirah of Rav Chanoch Aryeh Friedman, the olam haTorah has suffered precisely such a loss. “ Vayishalech Chanoch es haElokim ve’eineno ki lokach oso Elokim .” The posuk seems to have been written for such a moment, for such a person, for such a man. He lived a life of Elokus , of palpable dveikus , of relentless avodah and unembellished greatness, and then, in a manner as painful as it was awe-inspiring, he was taken from us. His final days themselves see...
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