Rabbi Avroham Aaron Yudelovitch
אברהם אהרן ב"ר בנימין בונם בייניש
Rav, Eldridge Street Synagogue, Lower East SideDate of Death:
Mon. February 3, 1930 -
Shevat 5 5690
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Directions to Kever: Although in a constant state of cleanup, Bayside Cemetery along Pitkin Avenue in Queens is in extreme disarray and can be dangerous, use caution when visiting!!! In the event of an emergency call 911. Location: Path V corner Path B, Enter at Path A, right on Path V until the end. Path V starts behind the Stich Mausoleum, the first mausoleum behind the office
Name Listed on Cemetery Database: Name listed on marker: Rabbi A A Yudelovitch
Biographical Notes:
Photo Caption: Rav Avroham Aaron Yudelovitch, Credit: Needed
Photo Caption: Rav Avroham Aaron Yudelovitch and Rav Gavriel Zev Velvele Margolis , Credit: Needed
Photo Caption: Rav Avroham Aaron Yudelovitch and Rav Gavriel Zev Velvele Margolis , Credit: Needed
Photo Credit: The Harve Daily Promoter, Havre, Montana
Source: The Des Moines Register, 20 Apr 1919, Page 56
Credit: Jewish Morning Journal, April, 14, 1921
Credit: Yeshiva University
Credit: The National Library of Israel
Bio Information:
Rav Yudelovitch was among the most influential Rabbanim (Rabbis) living in the United States during the 1920’s.
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I would like to thank Chaim Rosenberg of hebrewbooks.com for the picture.
Baruch
If anyone has precise directions to Rav Yudelovitch’s kever please let me know.
Thank you,
Baruch
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
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?
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.
Yes.
vay iz meir the place looks like a chazzer shtal
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
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.
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)
Is there anything that can be done by Jewish organizations with connections to public officials in the City?
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,
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.
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.
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
L’toeles Harabim
http://kevarim.vohost.us/rabbi-zalman-baurer/comment-page-1/#comment-5266
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?
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
Asher:
Please identify all the people in the picture?
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
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.
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?
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
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…
In addition Rav Kapaln was among the 400 rabbanim who marched on Washington in 1943.
BTW is there a complete list of the 400 Rabbanim who took part of the march in Washington?
http://www.wymaninstitute.org/special/rabbimarch/pg09docs.php
Thanks, Know it, somewhat fascinating!
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.
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
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.
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”.
Interesting. TY YD.
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)
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.”
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
Thanks Moshe
The yahrtzeit is coming up.
See http://www.ladaat.net/siteimages/fl_4b4e0f8cbdad8.pdf for an interesting synopsis of the famous aguna case involving this Godol.
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?
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
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.
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!
great its about lounch i will try to join the minyen on wednesday
lunch time
Thanx Shaya, hopefully we’ll have minyan. Please try to make it for 12:30pm IY”H. TY.
A minyan came. It was a wonderful testament for this great man. The family is grateful
How do we get there?
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
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