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Rav Elyashiv Zt"l:
_ The Petira of Rav Elyashiv Zt"l is still raw in our hearts. Many rabbanim around the world who gave hespedim on Rav Elyashiv Zt"l mentioned how he was a shield of our generation, who knows how many bombs and terror attacks he prevented? We must strengthen ourselves in our torah learning and davening to Hashem.Our generation is in a dangerous time. There are many things about Rav Elyashiv Zt"l which are legendary, his learning the hasmoda, his patience. The family that he raised all are top notch Talmidei Chachamim, the list goes on and on. Below we present a small "hesped" of Maran HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, zt’l, The Daily Vort thanks Zman Magazine for permission to use part of their "hesped" on the gadol. HaRav Elyashiv was 102 when he left us.The gadol's whole life was Torah, he was a walking Shulchan Aruch.He told his students that “the secret to his long life is never to get angry and never take things personally or to heart – except Torah study, which should be taken straight to the heart.”
HaRav Chaim Kanievsky had his own opinion how his father-in-law, HaRav Elyashiv, merited such longevity. Rav Chaim said that, while such decisions are of course made in Heaven, it may be that he was blessed with many years because of his habit of studying Torah out loud, even when he sat alone in the privacy of his own study, even late at night when there was nobody around to hear.
We mourn the loss of his voice in this world. Even if you never heard it with your ears, it resonated from one end of the world to the other. Indeed, it resonates now. It resonates in every discussion of a knotty Tosafos; every deep svara; every clarification of the halachah. It resonates in the hearts of Bais Yaakov girls who want to dedicate their lives to Torah; every mother who hugs her children tightly and sends them off to yeshivah.
Stand by the entrance of a bais midrash or a yeshivah. Listen to the voice of children singing the song of Torah. HaRav Elyashiv is gone, but his voice still resonates among them. It thunders and echoes through forests and trees; through time and eternity; through history and destiny.
HaRav Elyashiv is no longer here for us to visit, but his legacy reverberates everywhere… if we only open our hearts to listen for it….
HaRav Chaim Kanievsky had his own opinion how his father-in-law, HaRav Elyashiv, merited such longevity. Rav Chaim said that, while such decisions are of course made in Heaven, it may be that he was blessed with many years because of his habit of studying Torah out loud, even when he sat alone in the privacy of his own study, even late at night when there was nobody around to hear.
We mourn the loss of his voice in this world. Even if you never heard it with your ears, it resonated from one end of the world to the other. Indeed, it resonates now. It resonates in every discussion of a knotty Tosafos; every deep svara; every clarification of the halachah. It resonates in the hearts of Bais Yaakov girls who want to dedicate their lives to Torah; every mother who hugs her children tightly and sends them off to yeshivah.
Stand by the entrance of a bais midrash or a yeshivah. Listen to the voice of children singing the song of Torah. HaRav Elyashiv is gone, but his voice still resonates among them. It thunders and echoes through forests and trees; through time and eternity; through history and destiny.
HaRav Elyashiv is no longer here for us to visit, but his legacy reverberates everywhere… if we only open our hearts to listen for it….