Rav in New York
d. 22 Tishrei, 1994(5755) Shemini Atzeres
Rav Yaakov Kantrowitz, the chief rabbi of Trenton, NJ was the Rav’s father.
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Directions to kever:
Wellwood Cemetery
Wellwood Avenue
Farmingdale, NY 11735
(Corner of North and Zangwill Avenue, Block: 54, Section: Tiferes Jerusalem)
Rabbi Avroham Kantrowitz
November 5th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Tags: New York · Queens / L.I., NY · Unknown · Wellwood Cemetery
6 responses so far ↓
1 Stam Ah Yid // Nov 5, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Baruch:
Do you know the location of the Newark Rav’s kever?
2 Another Yid // Nov 5, 2009 at 5:09 pm
See comment section:
http://kevarim.com/rabbi-yaakov-moshe-shurkin/
3 curios // Feb 5, 2010 at 8:32 am
It doesn’t seem like he was a Rav, all it says on the kever is that his father was a Rav.
4 Ben Bee Zee // Oct 27, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Rabbi Yakov Kantrowitz was Rav in Tranton NJ (not in Newark) he past away on Hoshana Rabbah of 5706 (1945).
5 curios // Oct 27, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Trenton.
6 Commentor // Jan 6, 2011 at 4:57 am
Rav Avrohom Kantorovitch z”l was a shochet in Mexico who had a strong mesorah of nikkur which he passed down to younger butchers.
Every year on both his father’s yarhtzeit and his mother’s yarhtzeit he would make a siyum mesechta, and he was mesayim sha”s.
He was active in publishing his father’s seforim and wrote introductions to them.
His father was Maran HaGaon HaRav Yaakov Kantorovich zt”l, which those that knew him (including his nephew HaGaon HaRav Moishe Feinstein zt”l) held of him as the Gaon HaDor. He was Rav of Timkavitch in Russia and at the end of his life, when the communist took over Russia, and all rabbonim’s lives were in danger, he and R’ Moishe were of the last Rabbonim to escape to America where HaRav Kantorovich bacame rav of Trenton, NJ. He authored Tzilusa DeShmaatsa on the Shev Shmaatsa, Chidushei HaGR”Y and other seforim.
Rabbi Avroham Kantrowitz came from a strong lineage of gedolei hadoirois, as detailed in the biography of the new edition of his father’s sefer Chidushei HaGR”Y vol. I.
Rabbi Avroham Kantrowitz’s brother-in-law was HaGaon HaRav Yaakov Moishe Shurkin z”l.
Maran HaGaon HaRav Moishe Feinstein z”l was his first-cousin.
Maran HaGaon HaRav Michel Feinstein z”l, HaGaon HaRav Yoshe Ber Soleveitchik z”l and HaGaon HaRav Ahron Soloveitchik z”l were his first-cousins once-removed.
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