Yeshivat Nesher Hagadol

  | THE MOMENT | IN SORROW  By  Mishpacha Staff  all credit goes to the Mishpacha Magazine  | DECEMBER 2, 2020 Email Print The petirah of Springfield Rosh Yeshivah Rav Elya Meir Sorotzkin hit talmidim and admirers particularly hard Photo: AEGedolimphotos.com T he world has lost so many great men and women in recent months, but the  petirah  of Springfield Rosh Yeshivah Rav Elya Meir Sorotzkin hit  talmidim and admirers particularly hard. The Rosh Yeshivah had been ill for years, but as the sickness spread, his strength seemed to grow. His speech grew weaker, his gait slower, but his  shiurim  were ever more profound, the voice still roaring like a lion during  shiur . From the hospital bed, he taught Torah, giving over his essence with his last breaths. Mishpacha’s  Avraham Elbaz shares a picture he obtained of the Rosh Yeshivah with his father-in-law, Mir Rosh Yeshivah Rav Shmuel Berenbaum, reflecting that profound  ahava...

  BDE: Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski Zt”l By Hamodia Staff All credit goes to the Hamodia Sunday, January 31, 2021 at 1:14 pm |  י"ח שבט תשפ"א Updated Sunday, January 31, 2021 at 7:27 pm Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski (Twerski family) With great sadness  Hamodia  reports the  petirah  of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski,  zt”l , at the age of 90. A tremendous  talmid chacham,   shochet ,  mohel , and composer of popular  niggunim,  Rabbi Twerski was also widely respected in the secular world as an expert on the psychology of addiction. He was the son of the Hornsteipler Rebbe, and originally assisted his father as assistant  rav  in Milwaukee after receiving  smicha  at the age of seventeen. Afterward, he went to medical school and became an expert in addiction. Rabbi Twerski then ran an addiction program for alcohol in Pennsylvania for many years, and served in hospitals there as well. Rabbi Twerski live...