Rabbi Moshe Yom Tov Wactfogel
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Rav, Bnai Yaakov Montreal, CanadaDate of Death:
Fri. May 11, 1951 -
Iyyar 5 5711
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Directions to Kever: Har HaMenuchos Cemetery Jerusalem, Israel. Location: Alongside Rav Tzvi Pesach Frank and Rav Dovid Lifschitz
Biographical Notes:
Photo Caption: Rabbi Moshe Yom Tov Wactfogel, Credit: MCA
Photo Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America
Source: Rand
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Photo Caption: Mazel Tov on the birth of Eliyahu Ber Wachtfogel, Credit: Chaim Sznicer
Source: The Windsor Star  Windsor, Ontario, Canada 11 May 1951
Bio Information:
Rav Wactfogel while originally buried in Montreal was reinterred 3 years later at Har HaMenuchos Cemetery, Jerusalem, Israel. His son Rav Meir Nosson (d.1998) was the famed Lakewood Mashgiach for more than 50 years. His grandson, Rav Elya Ber is rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Gedola Zichron Moshe of South Fallsburg
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Rav Moshe Y.T. Wachtfogel was one of the famed ×× ×××§× – the original 14 talmidim who learned at Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer’s yeshiva in Slutzk when it opened in 1897.
All 14 are named in the entry for R. Isser Zalman that appeared on pp. 363, 364 of ץפר ×××× ×Š× that was printed in 1912. They appear in a loose alphabetical order by first name and Rav Moshe Yomtov appears eighth.
The listing can be seen at the bottom of this page:
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Reb Eli Ber Wachtfogel told me that when they brought him to Eretz Yisroel to re-bury him ( that was 3 years after he was niftar and it took a while for the ship to get to EY ) he was still whole.
Reb EB said the reason for this was that he had no Kina ( jealousy) and the posuk in tehilim says that Kina causes the body to because Rima ( worms)