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Leading Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv dies at 102 

By JPOST STAFF, JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH, JEREMY SHAR07/18/2012 17:06

Ashkenazi leader passes away in Jerusalem, having suffered congestive heart failure, been hospitalized often in recent years. 

Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post

Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the leading rabbi of the Ashkenazi haredi community, died Wednesday afternoon at Jerusalem's Shaarei Zedek Medical Center, aged 102. Elyashiv, one of the leading forces behind the formation of the haredi political parties, had suffered from congestive heart failure and been hospitalized several times in recent years.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu expressed great sorrow at Elyashiv's passing and said that the "nation of Israel has lost a great rabbi, an unmatched and sharp authority."

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Rabbi Elyashiv had been in the cardiac intensive care unit of the Jesselson Heart Center under the supervision of cardiology branch head Prof. Dan Tzivoni and his personal physician.

The medical center’s entire 10th floor is dedicated to cardiac care, from diagnosis and treatment to prevention and rehabilitation. Thus the large foyer managed to accommodate the rabbi’s family members who came to pray for him, consult with the medical staff and “stand guard.” But police were needed to keep out curious onlookers and nonrelatives, who reached the main fourth-floor lobby.

Only months ago, Elyashiv – who lived in a modest Mea She’arim apartment – underwent the insertion of a supportive stent in his aorta because of a leak.

During previous hospitalizations, surgery to implant a ventricular support device to strengthen the pumping of his own heart was ruled out because of the patient’s age and condition.

Elyashiv, an only child, was born in Siauliai (Shavel in Yiddish), Lithuania, came to Mandatory Palestine in 1922 when he was 12 years old. He lost his wife, Sheina Chaya, (a daughter of the famed Rabbi Aryeh Levin) in 1994, as well as five of their 12 children; his surviving “children” are in their 70s and even older.

Elyashiv controlled the “Lithuanian” Degel Hatorah political party that, which together with the hassidic Agudat Yisrael party, make up the United Torah Judaism faction in the Knesset. Additionally, Elyashiv, as the leading figure in Lithuanian haredi Jewry, had huge influence over the outlook and stance of the community toward contemporary issues within Israeli society.

He was widely seen as having continued along the same conservative path that was laid out by Degel Hatorah founder Rabbi Elazar Shach, who split from Agudat Yisrael in the late 1980s.

Shach, who died in 2001 at age 103, came to lead the Lithuanian, or non-hassidic, haredi world and opposed haredi integration within Israeli society, such as service in the army and integration in the workforce.

Previously, some have compared Rabbi Shach to former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak, and Rabbi Elyashiv to Barak's successor Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch.

Elyashiv, on the other hand, having less charisma and dynamism than Shach, had sought to preserve the established order and has opposed what some refer to as the “new haredim,” those from a small but growing community who serve in the IDF and have joined the mainstream labor force.

There are two leading haredi figures who may succeed Elyashiv as the spiritual and political leader of the Lithuanian community: Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, who lives in Bnei Brak and heads the Ponovitz Yeshiva kollel; and Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, who lives in Jerusalem, heads the Maalot Hatorah yeshiva and is the son of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, who was the greatest haredi arbiter of Jewish law before his death in 1995.

Shach, in the years before he died, unofficially designated Elyashiv as his heir apparent, overlooking Shteinman, who is now 97.

Shteinman is seen as slightly more moderate than Elyashiv was, and has supported the Nahal Haredi army battalion set up to enable ultra-Orthodox Jews to serve in the IDF and preserve their lifestyle. He also does not oppose the increasing trend of haredim joining the army and the general workforce.

Auerbach, however, was closer to Elyashiv and more inclined to his conservative outlook, opposing the “new haredim” and seeking to preserve the old order. He is charismatic and has many devoted followers. (( http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?ID=277967&R=R1 ))

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Hundreds of Thousands at Rav Elyashiv's Funeral

The venerable head of the hareidi yeshiva world, Rav Elyashiv, passed away in Jerusalem at the age of 102.


By Arutz Sheva Staff
First Publish: 7/18/2012, 4:56 PM / Last Update: 7/18/2012, 11:00 PM


Putting up notice of Rabbi's passing.
Yoni Kempinski

The great Torah Sage, head of the worldwide LIthuanian-hareidi yeshiva world, and leading Torah luminary of this generation, Rav Yosef Shalom ben Chaya Musha Elyashiv, passed away at Shaarei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem at the age of 102.

Rav Elyashiv's funeral left his home in Hanan street in Me'ah Shearim at 10:00 p.m. Wednesday. The pious and righteous sage did not want eulogies said at his funeral, so psalms and prayers were recited by speakers instead. The procession is to pass through the following streets: Shivtei Yisrael, Smuel HaNAvi, Nar Ilan, Yirmiyahu, Weizmann and Highway 1, through Saharov Junction to the Har Hamenuchot cemetery at Givat Shaul where Rav Elyashiv's wife is buried - this was his wish, despite the fact that a burial plot was reserved for him at the Mount of Olives next to renowned Torah luminaries who preceded him.

Assessments at present are that close to five hundred thousand mourners, both black and knitted kippah wearers, are accompanying the procession. Roads leading to Jerusalem are totally jammed, many have been closed by police, and cars are parked on the side of the highways as their drivers attempt to run to the funeral by foot. Emergency medical services, some providing water to participants, are all along the route.



Rav Elyashiv was hospitalized for pneumonia the night of February 5 and remained in the hospital due to other complications. His condition improved for several months - the doctors attending him called it nothing short of a miracle, when he was able to communicate some of the time and listen to Torah thoughts of his visitors - but today's deterioration in his condition began because of low and unstable blood pressure. Doctors were called to his bedside and the rabbi was anaesthetized and respirated as doctors tried unsuccessfully to stabilize his condition.



His family was at his side in the ICU and was able to repeat the Viduy prayer (the prayer of confession and affirmation of belief said at a Jewish person's deathbed) read from the from Maavar Yabok holy book several times before the rabbi's soul parted the earth.

Near his beside stood the Gaon Rav Shmuel Ohrbach, the head of the LIthuanian hareidi education system (Chinuch Atzmai) Rav Avraham Leizerson, the hospital's halakhic arbiter Rav Weis and the hospital's senior physicians.

The eighth floor of Shaarei Tzedek hospital was closed and barricaded to prevent the worried students who rushed to the scene from blocking the area, with Border Police on call to keep order, but the sound of loud prayers and psalms could be heard throughout the hospital as they, and many renowned rabbinic figures, prayed for a miracle. All hareidi schools and yeshivas stopped the afternoon study session (seder) in Israel to pray.

Israel's Radio Kol Hai broadcast prayers recited live by Rav Eliyahu Schlesinger of Gilo and the Kabbalist Sage Rav Addes.

Following the rabbi's passing, the head of Shaarei Tzedek hospital, Dr. Yonatan Halevy, gave a summary of the period of the rabbi's hospitalization and told how the entire hospital marvelled as his unusual powers of recovery during the last few months.

His voice breaking, one of the attending physicians, Dr. Silverstone said: "There is no way to make up this loss. May his prayers for us at G-d's Throne be heard, we need them so much."

Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv was born in 1910 in Lithuania to Rabbi Avraham Erener and Chaya Musha, daughter of the kabbalist Rabbi Shlomo Elyashiv. His parents were married for 17 years before his birth and he was an ony child. In 1922, the family moved to Israel and changed their name to Elyashiv at the advice of the famed Chafetz Chaim, settling in the hareidi Jerusalem neighborhood of Meah Shearim.

The young scholar never attended a regular yeshiva framework, but was recognized as a genius in Talmud study at a young age. When after serving as rabbi of Ramle for a short time, Rabbi Elyashiv was appointed a Rabbinic Court judge (dayan), Rabbi Yitzchak Herzog, Israel's Chief Rabbi, excused him from rabbinical and rabbinic court examinations, saying that they were unnecessary for someone of his caliber.

Rabbi Elyashiv married the daughter of Rabbi Arye Levine (called "father of the prisoners" as he visited and helped the Lehi fighters incarcerated and later hanged by the British during the Mandate period).

Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, later head of the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva was the matchmaker and his father, the first Chief Rabbi of Israel and founder of the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva (called Yeshiva Merkazit at the time) , Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, performed the wedding.

Rabbi Elyashiv and his wife Shayna Chana z"l had 12 children, one of whom, Rivka, was killed in an artillery barrage during Israel's War of Independence. One of his daughters married Rav Chaim Kanievsky, another a son of Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach.

His home in Jerusalem was constantly filled with those seeking halakhic advice and although he did not write any Torah works, his students wrote down his words for him, while he studied and lectured ceaselessly.

Rav Shach, the worldwide hareidi Torah leader, asked him to attend the founding of the Degel HaTorah hareidi party and Rav Elyashiv took over the leadership of the Lithuanian hareidi world after Rav Shach's death.

Rabbi Elyashiv's funeral will be held at 10 p.m. Tuesday in Jerusalem.

Baruch Dayan Haemet (Blessed is G-d, Who judges in truth - words said upon hearing of a death).

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