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Harav Chaim Boruch Wolpin, Zt”l, Stoliner Rosh Yeshivah
The hand trembles and the heart weeps as I write about the beloved Rosh Yeshivah, a vibrant and powerful presence in the lives of those who knew him, in the past tense.
Harav Chaim Boruch Wolpin, zt”l, who was niftar Thursday afternoon at the age of 88, after a lifetime of Torah and avodas Hashem, was a paradigm of hasmadah and warmth for hundreds of talmidim during his four decades at the helm of Yeshivah Karlin Stolin in Boro Park. Within five seconds of the last amen ending Minchah, his hat was off and his eyes were already scanning his well-worn Gemara.
“My father was a role model of growing up in America, growing up in Seattle, growing up in a situation where everybody in his generation chose different paths,” a son told Hamodia. “People told my grandparents, ‘you’re destroying him, he should go to college, have a career.’ Learning in kollel was considered a very horrible thing to do, not to have a career. He was from the first.”
A prime talmid of Harav Reuven Grozovsky, zt”l, the Rosh Yeshivah had a leading role in disseminating his Rebbi’s chiddushim through the copious notes he took and phenomenal memory. The names of his venerated Rebbeim — “Mori v’rabi Reb Reuven, zt”l,” and “Mori v’rabi Reb Shraga Feivel, zt”l” — punctuated nearly every shiur and drashah that he gave.
The levayah will take place at 11 o’clock Friday morning at Yeshivah Karlin Stolin, 5401-18th Ave. The aron will be flown to Eretz Yisrael on Motzoei Shabbos for kevurah.
Born in Seattle, Washington, in 1930, the Rosh Yeshivah was one of four sons of Reb Efraim Benzion and Kaila Wolpin, who were immigrants from the Stolin area of Belarus. All four were sent to New York as teenagers to learn in Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, a rarity at the time for an out-of-town bachur.
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