Comments on: Rabbi Avroham Aaron Yudelovitch

By: Dovid

Dovid — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:00:38 +0000

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.

By: Barry Yood

Barry Yood — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:47:57 +0000

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

By: Azi

Azi — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:55:07 +0000

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

By: M

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:05:00 +0000

How do we get there?

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:37:19 +0000

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

By: Asher

Asher — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:03:53 +0000

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

By: shaya

shaya — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:34:33 +0000

lunch time

By: shaya

shaya — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:32:54 +0000

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

By: Asher

Asher — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:10:25 +0000

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!

By: curios

curios — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:42:57 +0000

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.

By: YD Miller

YD Miller — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:48:50 +0000

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

By: YD Miller

YD Miller — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:41:30 +0000

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?

By: Yossele

Yossele — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:23:51 +0000

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

By: Asher

Asher — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:26:29 +0000

The yahrtzeit is coming up.

By: YD Miller

YD Miller — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:18:54 +0000

Thanks Moshe

By: Moshe Escott

Moshe Escott — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:06:17 +0000

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

By: YG

YG — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:00:46 +0000

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.”

By: asher

asher — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:59:17 +0000

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)

By: asher

asher — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:42:40 +0000

Interesting. TY YD.

By: YD Miller

YD Miller — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:29:04 +0000

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”.

By: asher

asher — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:50:13 +0000

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.

By: YD Miller

YD Miller — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:51:55 +0000

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

By: asher

asher — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:38:23 +0000

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.

By: YD Miller

YD Miller — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:17:23 +0000

Thanks, Know it, somewhat fascinating!

By: Know It All

Know It All — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:40:04 +0000

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

By: YD Miller

YD Miller — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:40:19 +0000

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

By: Rabbi Stern

Rabbi Stern — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:45:24 +0000

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

By: YD Miller

YD Miller — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:20:13 +0000

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…

By: asher

asher — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:34:33 +0000

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

By: YD Miller

YD Miller — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:37:39 +0000

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?