Kevarim of Tzadikim in North America

Rabbi Michael Eliezer Forshlager

by | Mar 24, 2011 | Baltimore, MD | 17 comments

Rabbi Michael Eliezer Forshlager

מיכאל אליעזר ב"ר אברהם משה הכהן

Ga'on of Baltimore

Date of Death: Tue. October 28, 1958 - Cheshvan 15 5719

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Directions to Kever: B'nai Israel Cemetery in Baltimore, MD maintains computerized records and will provide assistance upon request. Location: Enter from Southern Avenue, follow round around the chapel, and stay to the left. Make the first left after the chapel and go to the first crossroad. The kever is on the right side.

Name Listed on Cemetery Database: Forshlager

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Photo Caption: Rabbi Michael Eliezer Forshlager (wearing hat), Credit: Needed 


Credit: Dovid Emanuel Feinberg

Credit: S. Schecter, Baltimore, MD


Credit: S. Schecter, Baltimore, MD


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17 Comments

  4. asher
    asher on March 24, 2011 at 12:36 pm

    Wow! Very interesting read, Farshlufen. What a Torah giant, how come he wasn’t known.

  5. curios
    curios on March 24, 2011 at 1:14 pm

    Rav Forshlager was known to those who knew. A Gaon Olam, and tremendous Masmid. He was a talmid of the Avnei Nezer. Unfortunately, “gornisht geblibben” from his children…

  6. Litvak
    Litvak on May 4, 2011 at 11:11 am

    Rav Forshlager is buried in the cemetery on Southern Avenue. He is buried on a corner towards the left side of the cemetery. The kever is a brownish stone. His wife is buried behind him. Other Baltimoreons of note buried in that row are Harry K. Wolpert and Chester Siegel.

  7. curios
    curios on May 4, 2011 at 2:12 pm

    Harry K. Wolpert, if I’m not mistaken, was known as Koppel Kelemer, he came from Kelm, and learned by Reb Boruch Ber in the years 1904-1910, when the Yeshiva was still in Slabodka.

    There is a tape of Rav Gifter visiting him during the ’80’s, when he was close to 100 years old. He says amazing stories about Reb Boruch Ber, some of them from his visit in America in 1929.

    Maybe we can get a picture of Reb Koppel’s kever?

  8. Rabbi Avrum Friedmann
    Rabbi Avrum Friedmann on July 21, 2011 at 4:00 am

    To Curios: There are several direct descendants of HaGaon Rav Forshlager who are Bnei Torah, besides extended family and talmidei talmidim.

    To Farshlufen: Rav Forshlager is 3rd from the right against the wall in the picture you posted. (small beard). BTW, all pictures of him were taken w/o his consent.

    To All: Avnei Choshen Foundation was formed to “Motzi Laor” all the Ksavim of Harav Forshlager. Contributions and Ideas graciously accepted. Write to me at rabbiamf@gmail.com.

  9. curios
    curios on July 22, 2011 at 1:00 am

    Reb Avrum, I’m so glad to hear!
    Thanks.
    יהי זכרו ברוך

  10. Feinberg
    Feinberg on August 29, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    Location:

    3701 Southern Ave
    Baltimore MD 21206

    To get to the kevar directions are:

    Enter the cemetery from the Southern Ave entrance. A chapel will be directly in front of you. Stay to the left (do not turn left) and go around the chapel. Make the first left after the chapel and go to the first cross road. The kevar will be at the corner on your right side. Its brownish red.

  15. RYO
    RYO on March 12, 2019 at 4:23 pm

    Rav Aaron z’l said he was the greatest Gaon in America

  16. BW
    BW on November 14, 2019 at 6:47 am

    Not to be disrespectful of Rav Forschlager zt”l, however, every third person is said to have been conferred “the greatest Gaon in America” by Rav Aharon ztl.

  17. Moshe Escott
    Moshe Escott on June 12, 2022 at 10:43 am

    Here’s a three page review of Rav Forshlager’s sefer תורת מיכאל by Rabbi Israel Tabak from HaDarom of Tishrei 5728 (pp. 218-220 of the original).
    https://beta.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=28515&st=&pgnum=224

    Rabbi Tabak was rav of Shaarei Zion from 1931 to 1976 so he knew Rav Forshlager in Baltimore for over 25 years. R. Tabak mentions that the gabbai of his shul was the bookbinder who bound Rav Forshlager’s כתבי יד and the latter would drop off a new batch to bind every year before Pesach.

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