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• 1 lizensk12 // Dec 20, 2007 at 7:42 pm

  I would like to thank Chaim Rosenberg of hebrewbooks.com for the picture.
  Baruch

• 2 lizensk12 // Dec 20, 2007 at 7:17 pm

  If anyone has precise directions to Rav Yudelovitch’s kever please let me know.
  Thank you,
  Baruch

• 3 Shane Wamsley // Sep 30, 2008 at 3:03 pm

  Your Dec 20 2007 inquiry for precise dierections to Rav Yudelovitch’s the kever is known as I began the Bayside Cemetery Clean up in May 2003. Please contact me and we can discuss the matter at hand.
  Shane Wamsley

• 4 MBD // May 27, 2009 at 10:56 am

  I recently visited the Bayside Cemetery, the disgrace is horrifying. The cemetery appears to be the answer to city garbage problem. In addition, there are mausoleums with exposed bones. On first glance one would think that they were visiting a cemetery in Eastern Europe, but after a realty check one realizes that they are smack in middle of New York City.
  Is there anything that can be done to force the Bayside Management to clean up?

• 5 Azi // May 27, 2009 at 2:09 pm

  There is a whole forum on the state of Bayside Acacia Cemetery at http://citynoise.org/article/8696.

  Baruch, do you still need directions to this rav? I can tell you how to get there.

• 6 Baruch A // May 27, 2009 at 2:12 pm

  Yes.

• 7 Shmuel // May 27, 2009 at 2:34 pm

  vay iz meir the place looks like a chazzer shtal

• 8 Anonymous // May 27, 2009 at 2:50 pm

  You should consider contacting congregation shaare zedak not to ask for access, but to speak out against their congregations corruption that has allowed the cemetery they oversee to fall into such a wretched state

  Rabbi Andelman’s info is here:
  abbiandelman@sznyc.org
  andelman@gmail.com
  212-874-7005 ext 13
  President: Richard Friedman president@sznyc.org
  Synagogue Administrator: Ann Elbaum – office@sznyc.org
  Cemetery Ethan Klingsberg cemetery@sznyc.org

• 9 Miller // May 27, 2009 at 4:41 pm

  Are there other notable Rabbis buried in Bayside?
  This is rediculous, I am shocked to peaces that this is going on here in the United States while we are trying to save cemeteries abroad.

• 10 Anonymous // May 28, 2009 at 7:07 am

  Go to http://www.baysidecemeterylitigation.com to see what someone is trying to do about the horrible problem at Bayside Cemetery and how Congregation Shaare Zedek has admitted to taking the cemetery’s money for use by the synogogue (which is both illegal and immoral)

• 11 Miller // May 28, 2009 at 12:49 pm

  Is there anything that can be done by Jewish organizations with connections to public officials in the City?

• 12 Baruch A // May 28, 2009 at 1:48 pm

  I would like to document and photograph the kivrei tzadikim buried at the three Pitkin Avenue cemeteries in the coming weeks, if anyone is interested in joining please contact me via email or respond to this post.
  Thank you,

• 13 HaRav // May 28, 2009 at 1:55 pm

  Did anyone ever hear of the The Community Association for Jewish At-Risk Cemeteries organization? It is run by Gary Katz (not sure if he is a cohen or not) and Howard S. Feinberg. Officially they are cleaning up the cemetery and plan to have it cleaned up by November 2009.

  They posted the following video on Youtube:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTz2TKzaQgI

  I also once heard the Mormons from Salt Lake City where cleaning up the cemetery however they left in frustration a few months after starting the project.

• 14 Joy // May 31, 2009 at 4:38 pm

  From Wikipedia at
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAJAC

  CAJAC, The Community Association for Jewish At-Risk Cemeteries, is a non-profit organization established to rescue and maintain Jewish cemeteries. CAJAC’s mission is to be a central repository for fundraising, endowment management and the general care of abandoned and at-risk Jewish cemeteries.

  Starting with seed money from the UJA Federation of New York, CAJAC has begun a massive restoration and maintenance program at Bayside Cemetery in Queens, NY. CAJAC has employed a private contractor and instituted a volunteer program to clear the entire cemetery. The goal is to be completed by November 2009.

• 15 Joy // May 31, 2009 at 4:40 pm

  From CAJAC’s Facebook page:

  CAJAC Sponsors Volunteer Cleanups at Bayside Cemetery on most Sundays

  Bring your school, synagogue, church, club, friends & family to help clean this historic jewish cemetery in the heart of Ozone Park, Queens, NY.

  To volunteer or for info, call Ronny Herskovits, CAJAC Volunteer Coordinator, in advance at 646-522-9182 to check the schedule.

  For information on CAJAC, contact Howard Feinberg, Consulting Executive Director, at 201-647-7560 or Gary Katz, President at 914-683-9613.

  Cleanup is ongoing from Sunday, May 17 at 9:00 am until Sunday, September 13 at 12:00 pm

  80-35 Pitkin Avenue, Ozone Park, Queens
  TheCAJAC@gmail.com

• 16 avremele // Aug 7, 2009 at 3:02 pm

  L’toeles Harabim

  http://kevarim.com/rabbi-zalman-baurer/comment-page-1/#comment-5266

• 17 YD Miller // Oct 21, 2009 at 2:17 pm

  I found a New years wishing of Rabbi Yudelowitz, in the jurnal Hamitzpah 1910 while he was in Bayon NJ, where he mentions his children:

  1) Daughter Shosha married Rabbi Shlomo Schlosberg.
  2) Son Chaim Morim (mentioned in this site, with wife Dinah.
  3) Son Isaac with his wife Fiege.
  4) Son Doctor Riefel (Raphael) Yood
  5) Son Benny (Benjamin)

  Does anyone know more on his SIL Rabbi Schlossberg?

• 18 asher // Oct 23, 2009 at 2:46 pm

  2 beautiful picture links:

  http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IC1swogp6gc/RrpxJnfZQYI/AAAAAAAAAiM/xQ-0oqfuGjQ/s1600-h/yudelevitch.bmp

  http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IC1swogp6gc/Rrd0i0U6FkI/AAAAAAAAAhk/rLOztPhl2Cw/s1600-h/matzos.jpg

• 19 Rabbi Stern // Oct 26, 2009 at 10:20 am

  Asher:
  Please identify all the people in the picture?

• 20 H.F. // Oct 26, 2009 at 10:27 am

  Rabbi Stern:
  Picture One:
  Rabbi Yudelovitch

  Picture Two:
  Starting from the right (with bowtie)
  1. Rabbi Yood
  2. (I think) Rabbi Naftali Reiter
  3. Rabbi Yudelovitch
  4. Looks like Rabbi Yood’s brother
  5. Hirsh Manischewitz

• 21 asher // Oct 26, 2009 at 12:38 pm

  Rabbi Stern; firstly, i must credit Circus Tent where i found these images to begin with.

  Below is what he wrote:
  The old Rav in the center is Rav Avrohom Aharon Yudelovitch z”l. At his right is Rav Mordechai Aharon Kaplan z”l, who was Rov in various Shuls in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

  H.F., Thanx for identifying the rest. i didn’t check the source of the 2nd person, i merely copied the info from CT.

• 22 YD Miller // Oct 27, 2009 at 9:37 am

  Rav Kaplan wrote a sefer Taharas Hamishpacha, while he was Rav in Nachlas Tzvi in NY, where was this Kehila, and where is he buried?

• 23 asher // Oct 27, 2009 at 12:34 pm

  Nachlas Tzvi was located in Harlem, NYC. He was also the Rav in Bnai Yehuda, Brooklyn (16th cor 53rd).

  Check out this link of his Yiddish Sefer Der Natzionaler Redner.
  http://www.archive.org/details/nybc209755

• 24 YD Miller // Oct 27, 2009 at 2:20 pm

  Thanks Asher,
  He was Niftar 1951 and according to Hapardes 30,000 people took part in the Funeral.

  He was a Talmid of the Mir.

  Baruch,
  We now need the Matzieve to complete the story…

• 25 Rabbi Stern // Oct 27, 2009 at 2:45 pm

  In addition Rav Kapaln was among the 400 rabbanim who marched on Washington in 1943.

• 26 YD Miller // Oct 27, 2009 at 5:40 pm

  BTW is there a complete list of the 400 Rabbanim who took part of the march in Washington?

• 27 Know It All // Oct 28, 2009 at 10:40 am

  http://www.wymaninstitute.org/special/rabbimarch/pg09docs.php

• 28 YD Miller // Oct 28, 2009 at 11:17 am

  Thanks, Know it, somewhat fascinating!

• 29 asher // Oct 28, 2009 at 6:38 pm

  What does BVR”V (3rd line) stand for? Also, it says R’ AA BVRV z”l Harav Yudelovitz zt”l – first z”l, then ZT”L… can someone translate and explain teh way it’s written.

• 30 YD Miller // Oct 29, 2009 at 10:51 am

  Asher,
  The abbreviation BHR”V stands for “Ben Harav Reb Binuamin” and then the Z”L (Zichrono Livracha) is for his father Reb Binyamin.
  The second ZTZ”L (Zecher Tzadik Livracha) is on Rabbi Yudelowitz himself.

  The Rav always mentiond his fathers name after his own, see example on all his seforim.
  http://www.hebrewbooks.org/577

• 31 asher // Oct 29, 2009 at 3:50 pm

  YD, Thank you!
  In other words, Meir Morim was his grandfather. Upon the first glance it may seem that Harav Yudelovitch was Ben Harav Meir Marim.

  I see the way he wrote his fathers name in his sefer, this explains the BVR”V thingie – however, why wouldn’t they spell it out Binyamin on his headstone leave alone putting more emphasis on his grandfather.

  Why wasn’t it written as “Harav A A BVR”V Yudelovitch Z”L – why Harav AA z”l and separately harav Yudelovitch z”l – Perhaps because he was known as Harav Yudelovitch not by his first names, just guessing.

• 32 YD Miller // Oct 29, 2009 at 4:29 pm

  Asher,
  Not Correct, Reb Mier Morim was his uncle, the brother of his mother (The B”A stands for Ben Achoso).

  The reason why that was so important on the tumbstone, is because he was very famous perhaps more then his own father, and also because he was very close to him and learned with/from him.

  The second question you probable answered right, he was known as “Harav Yudelowitz”.

• 33 asher // Oct 29, 2009 at 4:42 pm

  Interesting. TY YD.

• 34 asher // Nov 4, 2009 at 3:59 pm

  Manischewitz Matza picture:

  http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IC1swogp6gc/Rrd0i0U6FkI/AAAAAAAAAhk/rLOztPhl2Cw/s1600-h/matzos.jpg

  I just met up with Barry Yood, a great grandson of Harav Yudelovitch z”l. In one of the many newspaper clippings he showed me, was the Manischewitz article in the Morgen Joutnal, March 18, 1921, about the Rabbanim visiting the Manischewitz Plant in Cincinnati.

  Th caption underneath the picture identifies the people from right to left:
  1. Rav Tzi Hirsh Manischewitz
  2. Rav Binyomin Haleivy Livei (spelled lamed, yud, vuv, vuv, yud, yud)
  3. Harav Yudelovitch z”l
  4. Rav Mordechai Aaron Kaplan
  5. Harav Horshtein (Mashgiach Tmidi from Jerusalem)

• 35 YG // Nov 5, 2009 at 1:00 am

  Regarding Rav Yudelovitch’s father’s name if you go to the Hebrewbooks.org link listed above and you click the “order print version” option, you will find his father’s name listed as “Binyamin Bunim.”

• 36 Moshe Escott // Nov 5, 2009 at 11:06 am

  YG : (re: father’s name)
  Rav Yudelovitch’s father’s name appears as Binyamin Bunim in sha’ar of R.A.A.Y.’s first sefer – Alim L’Mivchan (c. 1872) at
  http://www.hebrewbooks.org/39264
  In Ohalei Shem (1912), the bio blurb on for Rav Yudelovitch (p. 296) lists his father’s name as Binyamin Beinish.

  YD Miller: (re: R. Mordechai Aharon Kaplan and R. Schlossberg)
  The 1951 that HaPardes obituary said 3,000 (shloshes alafim) attended the levaya, not 30,000.

  In addition to learning at Mir and Slutzk, a bio blurb in the Ephraim Tiktin collection at YIVO says that R. Kaplan also studied at RIETS when he first came to the USA and in 5669 got semicha from 2 RIETS roshei yeshiva -
  R. Avraham Aharon Yudelovitch and R. Shmuel Tzvi Wein.

  There’s a has a bio blurb on Rav Schlossberg in Ohalei Shem on pps. 465, 466

• 37 YD Miller // Nov 5, 2009 at 12:18 pm

  Thanks Moshe

• 38 Asher // Jan 13, 2010 at 12:26 pm

  The yahrtzeit is coming up.

• 39 Yossele // Jan 14, 2010 at 12:23 pm

  See http://www.ladaat.net/siteimages/fl_4b4e0f8cbdad8.pdf for an interesting synopsis of the famous aguna case involving this Godol.

• 40 YD Miller // Jan 14, 2010 at 1:41 pm

  Yossele thanks for the link, I see he had a brother Reb Zalmen Tovia who was a rav in the Bronx, anyone with more about him?

• 41 YD Miller // Jan 14, 2010 at 1:48 pm

  OK I figured it out his name was rabbi Zalmen Tovia “Galibovsky” he was Rav in Bayonne NJ, Brooklyn NY and in the Bronx.

  The Search goes on for more info.

  Here is where his brother mentions him:
  http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=578&hilite=142f31fc-1e12-477e-8496-53252ec399bb&st=%d7%92%d7%90%d7%9c%d7%95%d7%91%d7%90%d7%95%d7%95%d7%a1%d7%a7%d7%99

• 42 curios // Jan 14, 2010 at 2:42 pm

  http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=20408&hilite=c48374cb-f017-4ffb-a77d-c4584f0864bd&st=%D7%90%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%94%D7%9D+%D7%90%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%9F+%D7%99%D7%95%D7%93%D7%9C%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A5&pgnum=696
  There is some nice information and bio about him.

• 43 Asher // Jan 14, 2010 at 4:10 pm

  This coming Wednesday is the yahrzeit, it’ll be a tremendous z’chus if we can put together a minyan. I know of 3 people who are willing to come between 12:30 -1pm. Anyone else willing to join. The Rav’s great Grandchild will be there too IY”H.
  Kindly post your respond here or email Baruch directly. Thank you!

• 44 shaya // Jan 18, 2010 at 3:32 pm

  great its about lounch i will try to join the minyen on wednesday

• 45 shaya // Jan 18, 2010 at 3:34 pm

  lunch time

• 46 Asher // Jan 19, 2010 at 7:03 pm

  Thanx Shaya, hopefully we’ll have minyan. Please try to make it for 12:30pm IY”H. TY.

• 47 Marty // Jan 21, 2010 at 12:37 am

  A minyan came. It was a wonderful testament for this great man. The family is grateful

• 48 M // Jan 28, 2010 at 6:05 pm

  How do we get there?

• 49 Azi // Feb 7, 2010 at 11:55 am

  R. Abraham Aaron Yudelevitz was a rav in Manchester at the turn of the twentieth century. He would later come to the United States where he served as a rav in Boston and later in New York, and he was also a rosh yeshiva at Yeshivat R. Yitzhak Elhanan. As with a few others, while in N.Y. he even had the title “Rav ha-Kollel.”

  Yudelevitz might have been the most brilliant Torah scholar in the United States. He was also prepared to stand up to anyone (including the Rogochover) and is known for one incredible pesak that created enormous controversy: He permitted a woman to appoint another woman as her shaliah to carry out the halitzah ceremony.

  Source: http://seforim.blogspot.com/search/label/Marc%20B.%20Shapiro

• 50 Barry Yood // Feb 10, 2010 at 2:47 pm

  I am the great grandson of Rabbi Yudelovitch. I ht him, and have been trying to learn more about him. I have also been trying to reestablish the prominance of his teaching among scolars and the lagrer Jewish community. I would welcome any information about him that you have.
  Thanks,
  Barry Yoood, Manhattan, NY

• 51 Dovid // May 26, 2010 at 10:00 am

  I was just told by a chushava Rov that the chalitza psak “wiped him off the map”. It was a fatal decision that unfortunately minimized his other seferim and accomplishments.

• 52 YD Miller // Oct 5, 2010 at 12:49 pm

  A written Manuscript of Rabbi Yudelowitz:

  http://hebrewmanuscripts.org/hbm_1028.pdf

• 53 Moshe Escott // Oct 6, 2010 at 5:41 pm

  Thanks for pointing this out R. Miller! This is the first time I’ve heard of that site’s existence (also managed by hebrewbooks.org).

  Also other kisvei yad PDFs of R. Yudelovitch to be found listed there at http://www.hebrewmanuscripts.org/index.aspx?b=11

• 54 YD Miller // Oct 14, 2010 at 1:11 pm

  “A new Moses of all jews in the US”

  A report in The Washington Times on April 1 1919 proclaims, upon the elections of Rabbi Yudelowitz as Cheiff Rabbi with 200 synagauges under his direction.

  http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1919-04-01/ed-1/seq-19.pdf

• 55 Farshlufen // Jul 13, 2011 at 8:50 am

  FEBRUARY 4, 1930
  Rabbi Abraham Aaron Yoodelovitch Dies at 82

  Bayonne, N. J. -
  Rabbi Abraham Aaron Yoodelovitch, one of the most noted orthodox rabbis in this country, president of the Jewish Ministers’ Association of the United States and Canada, died on Sunday at the home of his son, Ben Yood, this city, at the age of 82. He had been ill for the past six months.
  Rabbi Yoodelovitch, noted for his learning, was the author of several books which dealt with researches into orthodox Jewish law. The most important of these works is the series called “Beth Av” or “House of the Fathers.”
  Rabbi Yoodelovitch was born in Navarodock, Minsk, Russia, the scion of generations of noted rabbis. He was known as a child prodigy at the Yeshivah of Wolozhin. He was ordained at the age of 17, and after holding several rabbinates in Russia, went to England, where he lived for twenty years. He came to the United States in 1909 and here he occupied rabbinical positions in Boston, New Haven, Bayonne and New York. His last rabbinate was that of the Eldridge Street Synagogue, Manhattan.

  http://archive.jta.org/article/1930/02/04/2781786/rabbi-abraham-aaron-yoodelovitch-dies-at-82

• 56 Reb Elya // Aug 7, 2011 at 10:59 am

  http://www.amazon.com/HaShem-Hebrew-Avraham-Aharon-Yudelowitz/dp/B00166SLQW/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312729094&sr=1-1

  http://www.amazon.com/Sefer-Doresh-Av-Vol-Hebrew/dp/B0018P5S3A/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312729094&sr=1-4

  http://www.amazon.com/Sefer-Doresh-Av-Vol-Hebrew/dp/B0018P5RYU/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312729094&sr=1-3

  http://www.amazon.com/Sefer-Doresh-Av-Vol-Hebrew/dp/B0018P5SVC/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312729094&sr=1-5

  http://www.amazon.com/Sefer-Bais-Av-Tanina-Hebrew/dp/B0018P5PSS/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312729094&sr=1-2

• 57 Janice Singer-Capek // Aug 30, 2011 at 9:52 pm

  Barry Yood: we are related though distantly. My great grandfather was Rabbi Zalman Golubowski. He and your grandfather, Rabbi Yudelevich were brothers. My mother has many pictures. One in particular has your grandfather with my great grandfather and grandfather (Lionel Golub) at the White House petitioning for wine for the sabbath during prohibition. I am trying also to learn about the family, particularly my grandfather. If anyone has information I’d appreciate it!

• 58 Moshe Escott // Aug 31, 2011 at 4:12 pm

  Janice,
  I am also distantly related via the Eskolsky/Yudelovitch connection. I do have some info on R. Z.T. Golubowski that I can send. Please contact me at eskolskyinfo@yahoo.com

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